As they prepare their bonfire, they evade, confront, understand, accept and deny the pain of the past, smouldering in the present.
But he has actually once again evaded the fundamental choice between accepting the costs of staying and the risks of leaving.
The president split the difference, suggesting that he was charting a "centered course". But he has actually once again evaded the fundamental choice between accepting the costs of staying and the risks of leaving.
In turn, he tricks the brothers into accepting prizes for evading him.
Mitchell himself appeared to have evaded taxes.
As the ruling party, they will be held responsible for any sleaze, and they have already had one hiccup: last November, Randy "Duke" Cunningham, a congressman from San Diego, confessed to accepting $2.4m in bribes and to evading over $1m in taxes.
But officials involved in Saturday's negotiations said that when they repeatedly pressed the Iranians to say whether they could accept the idea, the question was evaded every time.
With very rare exceptions – in one of PD James's novels, Dalgliesh is forced to accept that the real villain has evaded blame – the crime is correctly and satisfyingly solved.
They were accused of accepting bribes from 10 haulers seeking to evade the payment of dump fees and deposit thousands of tons of waste illegally.
Our identity lies in belonging to them and then loathing them, accepting their bounty and then disobeying them, evading their taxes, traveling without tickets, then voting for them, again and again.
Rangers manager Pedro Caixinha told BT Sport he accepted the blame for the defeat but evaded a question about his own future.
