Sentence examples for a careful answer from inspiring English sources

Each question I pose is met with a slight pause and then a careful answer.

Charles realized that these proposals were an ultimatum; yet he returned a careful answer in which he gave recognition to the idea that his was a "mixed government" and not an autocracy.

WASHINGTON — President Obama was in the middle of a careful answer to a question about whether anyone in the White House knew that the Internal Revenue Service was targeting conservative groups, when the rain started to fall.

It was a careful answer, not quite contradicting the President by leaving open the possibility that others the Democrats, the "Fake News Network"—were indeed chasing wraiths in Trump Tower.

Asked about Burnham's claim that he might not really want to be prime minister, Corbyn gave a careful answer that he wanted to win the campaign and for the party to win in 2020.

The not-told-ness of the truth must be apparent to the reader in advance of any actual discovery, as here in Mr Bentley's oddly careful answer to a simple question.

Such was the careful answer proffered by an acquaintance of mine, who knows the Secret Intelligence Service as well as anyone alive.

But Mrs. Clinton gave a careful, brittle answer that could be a metaphor for this and most political debates.

Although television has recently introduced the screen-wipe, where one image folds into another, as a version of the dotted ellipsis in print (to show that an answer has been cut) there are still strategies – such as cutting away to film or to a "noddy" of the questioner – that permit several speeches to be merged into one or a soundbite to be pulled from a careful, nuanced answer.

When I ask if misogyny among gay men concerns her, her careful answer suggests both that it does, and that she is anxious not to give her gay male critics a new excuse to attack her.

There was no hint, in Ivanka's careful answers, that a woman in an office with an exploitative boss, and lacking an intimidating family name, might not have anyone to speak for her — not even the Trump Organization H.R. department.