Sentence examples for avoiding honest from inspiring English sources

Their persistence in avoiding honest, civil, and transparent conversation has been quite surprising.

If Bruce Springsteen, in his own wry summation, avoided honest labour by writing about it, then Steely Dan have made a roaring success of narrating failure.

We believe that establishing the SBoRE will help avoid honest mistakes and raise the standards for data analysis, particularly when sophisticated approaches are needed.

Hefty fees are often part of the problem, as is the natural desire to bury one's head in the sand and avoid honest number crunching.

The best way to do that would be exactly what the campaign of John McCain is avoiding — an honest news conference.

Most of all, though, fantasizing about living forever — in heaven or in a preserved pattern of data — strikes me as just another way of avoiding any honest confrontation with the fact of death.

"As a discussion of national security issues and the sort of things we want to hear from a prospective Commander-in-Chief," he said, the whole forum was a "missed opportunity". Many of the questions that ought to have been asked were not and when good questions were raised, the candidates typically avoided giving honest answers.

After all, Lun himself assumed he had no reason to avoid open, honest contact with immigration authorities.

Mr. Katari contends that banks have been using temporary loan modifications under the Obama plan as justification to avoid an honest accounting of the mortgage losses still on their books.

He's forever looking for a way to make a quick buck - anything to avoid an honest, straight life.

When the then-governor and Republican vice-presidential candidate fumbled her way through an interview with CBS's Katie Couric, seemingly unable to answer the question of "what newspapers and magazines (do) you regularly read," some old friends and ex-employees of Palin joked that the problem was that Palin had the political sense to avoid the honest answer.