Whether from past experience or ingrained stigma, it's the assumption that incites the response — even as the wired walker remains immersed in his music or conversation, calmly and carefully dodging Muni Meters, megastrollers and fellow Manhattanites.
In broadcast interviews, ministers carefully dodge the delivery of any information at all; they would rather sound imbecilic, as if they understood very little and knew even less, than run the risk of having said anything of import.
Carefully dodging any comment, Merkel merely insisted that Athens stick to its commitments.
As night falls, Elisabeth makes her way back to her house, carefully dodging the huge piles of debris and Port-au-Prince's bustling traffic as the hum of generators fill the air.
Within seconds this rabidly bright man is out of sight, dodging carefully between people, strangely rabbit-like for his height, on his way to the gym.
I interviewed Banks the previous day for the Washington Post and avoiding spoilers felt like dodging carefully planted land mines in a desert war zone.
Walking north, the group stepped carefully to avoid power tools, dodged busy workers and balanced on plywood planks bridging gaps in the walkways still being completed.
And when he finally spoke, he carefully considered each word, dodging some questions and refusing to speculate on where his season went wrong and what might be next.
