The phrase "avoiding a straightforward" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the act of not taking a direct or simple approach to a situation or problem.
Example: "In his speech, he was avoiding a straightforward answer to the question about his plans for the future."
Alternatives: "evading a direct" or "steering clear of a simple".
Marías avoids a straightforward delivery in favor of a digressive narrative that moves back and forth in time.
The six-hour, six-episode series (which is being released on DVD on Tuesday and has its debut on PBS on Wednesday) also avoids a straightforward chronological approach.
Wisely, he avoids a straightforward chronology, preferring to explore the main themes that have dominated Egyptian discourse since the overthrow of King Farouk in 1952.
To avoid a straightforward account, which could lose the complexity of slavery as a historical force, he added two deities, the Trickster God and the Goddess of the Waters.
Characters tend to develop strangely (or not at all); settings are sometimes created from a fusillade of petty-seeming details that can collectively avoid a straightforward accounting of the basic proscenium stage of action.
Reading Noah Smith reading John Cochrane solidified a thought I've been grasping at for a while: the extraordinary lengths to which the Chicago School is going to avoid a straightforward interpretation of the mess we're in.
The Color Master by Aimee Bender showed a similar impulse to avoid a straightforward examination of life in the present day in favour of an exploration of life's deeper meanings through fable, the fantastic, and the surreal.
The key is also to avoid a straightforward licensing deal, and to change the way the game works in accordance with what makes sense for retaining what's already appealing about Nintendo's games.
For all the numbers, for all the talk of lessons learned and improvements to come, it is hard to avoid a straightforward conclusion: England's breakdown has broken down.
Perhaps Azzopardi avoided a more straightforward narrative because she did not quite believe she could do justice to horrific childhood experiences she had not undergone herself.
