Sentence examples for avoid the moment from inspiring English sources
There is a reason bribery is against the law: children who are being bribed recognize that they've got you, that you cannot bear the shame of their public decompensation, that you will do anything, pay any price, to avoid the moment that forces you to say things like, "I know you must be very angry".
We sit in groups to exercise our vocabulary of condolence: "I'm sorry", "You'll get through this", "You will heal in time" – my phrases seem to avoid the moment, while others engage with it: "How does her death make you feel?" Next we're given the chance to get up close and personal with the accoutrements of death.
Left to their own devices, Israeli leaders (whether deep down they are pro- or anti-occupation) will prefer to avoid the moment of truth and of confrontation with the settler behemoth.
The story helps me to pause, to take a moment to let myself be disturbed without rushing into all the devices I use to avoid the moment: interpretation, thoughts of fixing or blaming, grasping for explanations of cause and effect, all these familiar things I can use to avoid the experience of what my heart actually needs the most-to cry cleanly.
This value is used to fix the dip in subsequent runs, to avoid the moment-dip trade-off effect.
Lalas decided to avoid the sad moment.
On this particular weekend I thought I'd done everything to avoid the awkward moment that awaited us.
The Desolation Center shows managed to avoid the pivotal moment when festivals for the counterculture shift and become mainstream, inevitably altering their feel and purpose.
Many witnesses turned their backs to avoid the grisliest moments.
The symmetrical distribution of the L-shape lever mechanisms can avoid the bending moments and lateral forces at the driving end to protect the piezoelectric actuator.
Frank Bowling, official ambassador for the Montage Beverly Hills, said the members of the hotel's front desk staff are instructed to assume that the information on their screens is correct, to avoid the potentially awkward moment when the reservations clerk tries to make right what isn't wrong.
