Sentence examples for evasive figure from inspiring English sources

Mr. Rumsfeld emerges from this book as a petulant, sometimes evasive figure, obsessed, even in the days immediately after 9/11, with taking on Iraq, repeatedly raising the possibility, as Mr. Woodward puts it, "that they could take advantage of the opportunity offered by the terrorist attacks to go after Saddam immediately".

Her father's secret war paints a tableau of an evasive figure.

Or will they dismiss him as a weak, evasive figure with contempt for facts and a lot to hide?

It is peopled by irascible, evasive figures who seem to remain closed to the reader, for all the telling they do.

David Cameron is proving to be a charmingly evasive public figure.

Andrew Tyrie, the Treasury select committee chair, has lost patience with evasive and bamboozling figures designed to mislead and wants a full document by 31 October.

Much as we would love to believe that Hamlet was performed during its author's lifetime in West Africa – I for one wish it were true – we might have to accept that Shakespeare, that most evasive and slippery of figures, doesn't always turn up on cue.

"The intelligence of the car would figure out a plan for evasive action... Essentially (it would) be like a guardian angel, pushing on the accelerators, pushing on the steering wheel, pushing on the brake in parallel with you".

Your only strategy is evasive vagueness, conversational rope-a-dope until you can figure out who this person is.

The standard protocol began with 1 min standing in a relaxed position with no passive vibration, after which the subjects assumed their normal downhill skiing tuck position and maintained this position with no evasive movements throughout the 3 min of vibration (see Figure  1).

On the Doctor's other characteristics, though, Capaldi is evasive, admitting only that he's "a slightly more mysterious figure".