It's a fair question, given our raised expectations — drones replacing FedEx trucks, drones providing emergency relief, drones creepily face-scanning every protester at a demonstration — but I think it evinces an unrealistic expectation of consistent, linear change.
None I tried evinced even the faintest sogginess; as my fork cut through the decorative crosshatch of cinnamon atop the sugar-dusted pastry, it crackled and shattered and gave way to a layer of buttery, fatty ground almonds and a moist and richly seasoned chicken filling.
After all, while I probably would not have asked whether you intended to quit smoking unless I hoped you would quit, I can evince such a hope without performing the speech act of suggesting.
You will not, therefore, be surprised, if in what I have to say, I evince no elaborate preparation, nor grace my speech with any high sounding exordium.
Amid all the gnashing of teeth ("I am Sad") and outright glee ("I am Amused") evinced this week on Facebook and elsewhere, some diners charted a middle ground.
No fad or pseudoscience is beyond their hectic enthusiasm, and Flaubert's own ruthless skepticism about the idea of "progress" is evinced, I think, in the occasional cruelty that results from seeing human and other creatures as potential subjects for experiment.
When I mentioned graphene, he evinced the defensiveness that might be expected of a scientist who has devoted nearly ten years to one recalcitrant technology only to be told about a glamorous new one.
I'd tell anyone who evinced an interest my suspicions about these so-called characters, and even give them the Ethel Nairn shtick, so demonstrating the airiness of their own suspended disbelief.
I would rather evince passionate dislike than a dispassionate shrug.
Unfortunately, a preview of the Republican Party's future came from the reaction to Senator Specter's switch — many conservatives evinced a sense of "I told you so" satisfaction and denigrated his service to the country.
