While you've been spending time with family and friends and enjoying some well-earned relaxation, the Internet has been tirelessly pumping out material for you to mindlessly click and drool over while avoiding any real-world responsibilities.
Privately, he pressed to keep the committee's deficit-cutting ambitions modest, in part to avoid any real tax increases.
But for all its boisterous sexual humor, the movie carefully avoids any real provocation, let alone insight.
Regular dividends put cash in the pockets of all investors, leave market timing to them, require management discipline and avoid any real or imagined conflicting motives.
And as soon as you see Rachel's galumphing Amish suitor (Alexander Godunov), with his dear, mischievous grin, you know that the film is going to avoid any real collision of cultures, and the risk of giving offense.
The New York Times, too, has considered holding paid business-sponsored forums involving Times journalists, but only on conditions that would avoid any real or apparent conflicts of interest, company officials said.
Mr. Stumpf, they said, was offering little more than platitudes while allowing his top executives to avoid any real consequences — like being fired or having their enormous pay packages clawed back.
Piazza has played in seven games at first this season -- a quarter of the schedule -- and has avoided any real embarrassment besides an awkward fall in his first start, which was the result of a bad throw by the pitcher.
