Sentence examples for a form of avoidance from inspiring English sources

The sex scenes between Foster and Basinger are brought off subtly, with gentle humor, but, in a case like this, tastefulness may also be a form of avoidance — a way of keeping to a tony surface when the situation calls out for emotion and mess.

However, after having experienced one or more panic attacks, subjects with PD develop a form of avoidance towards places (such as subways or cinemas) where they believe they will experience dyspnea/panic [14], and also become less explorative towards novel, open spaces, behavioural characteristics collectively named 'agoraphobia' [15].

And the act of giving and receiving the prescription can look like active engagement with the main dilemma but is in fact a form of avoidance, one of a number of strategies employed as means of not getting uncomfortable uncertainties and differences of opinion into the open [ 41].

Emotional processing theory emphasizes the role of providing corrective information and altering cognitive meaning elements of the fear schema as critical for recovery; in contrast, anger is viewed as a form of avoidance that impedes accessing the fear schema and recovery [ 5].

But it also functions as a form of psychological avoidance.

Other philanthropists warned that the premise of charitable donations was being tarnished by the government's repeated claims that much charitable giving was a form of tax avoidance.

The technique grew out of a ruling that Mr. Blattmachr obtained from the I.R.S. in 1996 allowing a form of tax avoidance called "family reverse split-dollar" life insurance.

Some approaches, like working for cash — a form of tax avoidance, to be polite, for those who don't have Bahamanian bank accounts — are impossible for anyone on a payroll.

At a time of rising inequality, philanthropic money raises more hackles: especially as such philanthropy can serve as a form of tax avoidance.

This can thus also be seen as a form of label avoidance.

Indeed, guilt and shame seem to be related to discrimination as a form of social avoidance [ 25].