Sentence examples for as evasive from inspiring English sources

Instead of being boldly subtle, Five Nights in Maine just comes off as evasive.

He was to prove as evasive as the meaning of his paintings.

Pettitte is typically not as evasive as Giambi, as confrontational as Sheffield or as melodramatic as Rodriguez.

Ryan might have been as evasive as, say, Bill Belichick is almost every day because Ryan has now defined the game as even bigger than the A.F.C. championship game last January, which the Jets lost to Indianapolis.

As well as having a way with words, Salmond developed an easy television manner, which makes him sound as if he is engaging with his interviewer when, very often, he is being as evasive as the next politician.

But his death has not been verified and the truth about the man who lost an eye fighting the Russians in Afghanistan – or possibly in Algeria, fighting the military, depending on which source you believe – has always been as evasive as the man himself.

They don't feel subtracted or elided from the filming but merely suppressed: a gesture that could signify modesty and respect, an ostensibly selfless devotion to the movie's participants and subjects, comes off as quietly evasive.

And that all 54 of them were able to agree on every phrase, every comma, without sounding as gassy and evasive as the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission, is little short of amazing, in itself proof of something like divine inspiration.

And while Garbrandt has the power to knock out anyone in the weight class with one punch, he has never faced a fighter as elusive and evasive as Cruz.

The arguments put forward by the Pagford loyalists against what they see as the evasive sullen rabble from The Fields are laid out with conviction, as is the opposing view.

But just as that evasive baseball did with Martin, it didn't stick.