Clift perfectly shows how bewildered, earnest, and yet conceited and evasive his character is: Taylor's feline self-possession is troubled by George's extravagant, ingenuous passion.
Nina, who can be blunt and yet also evasive, is an intriguing character, even if she's a caricature, a femme fatale with an outsider's point of view.
Mr. Daisey, to his credit, appeared on the show for an awkward and occasionally excruciating interview, but was mostly evasive, arguing that some characters and events had been invented in service of a greater narrative truth.
A noirish thriller that revels in ominous visual moods, deepened by Cliff Martinez's spare, shivering guitar score, this heartland "Appointment in Samarra" is a mind-teaser that speaks the flat, evasive language of its seedy characters.
The age-consciousness of her characters is hard to parallel and Trollope has to be evasive about the ages of her main characters, just where Austen is precise.
This primly evasive woman is a bum role for Sarandon, who constantly signals her distaste for the character, but Hawn does something fresh.
But as precisely as his handsome features register degrees of arrogance, wariness and misery, the screenplay, with its evasive pronouncements and ponderous pauses, leaves his character purposefully unfocused and hence symbolic of some generalized malaise.
Mr. Chabrol's characters are always ripely conceived yet evasive, full of surprises and curious habits while remaining beyond easy psychological reach.
But isn't that one of the central points of "Mrs. Beattie seeks, by a variety of fictive and factual means, to find a point of access into the character of Pat Nixon, only to find her an evasive and unknowable cipher.
