Sentence examples for Quite evasive from inspiring English sources
He is soft-spoken and thoughtful to the point of guarded, not quite evasive but certainly elusive.
Russia had talked to the Pakistanis about the FMCT, but DFM Ryabkov indicated that they were "quite evasive".
However, if the Supreme Court decides not to rule on the constitutionality of Proposition 8, "the court might wind up looking quite evasive if it decided not to decide on Proposition 8, and then took an escape route away from deciding the fate of DOMA, too".
Thomas Frewen was reported as being "quite evasive" when the coroner asked him how Ellen was fed, and although Hayman testified to reaffirm his stance that Ellen's illness was genuine, Reverend Studholme was less certain.
If it all sounds a touch dry, the fun comes from watching the way Leth continually outfoxes von Trier, producing mini-masterworks of quite stunning evasive ingenuity.
The plot of Roald Dahl's short story "Taste", meanwhile, hinges on identifying a rare Bordeaux, but the real amusement comes from the pretensions of the wine taster: "a prudent wine … rather diffident and evasive but quite prudent", he says.
"Obviously, we are not as quick as we would love to be but we got through quite a good programme and made some decent steps, for us at least," Hamilton said, sounding ever more evasive.
"They were very evasive".
