Sentence examples for evading language from inspiring English sources

A doleful 75-year-old, he moreover talks the talk, evading language often employed by Turkey's right-wing nationalists and Islamists.

I think what Judge Sotomayor is getting at here is the use of language to evade responsibility by distancing or removing the subject of the sentence from the action of the verb.

The letter implies that the Gonzaga court was trying to persuade Monteverdi to return to Mantua; in courtly language Monteverdi evades the issue, while comparing the relative generosity of his Venetian employers with the parsimony of the Gonzaga court.

Graham's interpretation of Zhuangzi's pipes of nature gave him a way to evade this anti-language abyss.

But DI's post-Kitzmiller notoriety requires that they now disguise pro-ID legislation with code language in an attempt to evade almost a dozen federal court decisions in which creationists have consistently lost (Matsumura and Mead 2007).

How "The Road," Cormac McCarthy's apocalyptic Grand Guignol, evades its own crucial question: "As long as language can be used to recount the worst, then the worst has not arrived..

Indeed, the Supreme Court has repeatedly rebuked the state and the federal courts that hear appeals in Texas capital cases, often in exasperated language suggesting that those courts are actively evading Supreme Court rulings.

But words are truants; they keep evading the rules, and this must be because semantic slipperiness is just a built-in feature of language.

Daniels has chosen his title well: with every word he writes, Cardus evades the narrow constraints of criticism to celebrate life, language, art, beauty - and the miracle of personality.

He does this in language, too, veering toward certainties in order to evade them.

In previous columns, I have explored how language is used to sway public opinion and evade reasoned debate.