I wasn't alone in finding this speech disturbingly evasive.
Sometimes he was evasive or political in his speech, but most often he was authentic and spoke his thoughtful truth.
An initial statement from the Trump communications office took an evasive middle ground: "In writing her beautiful speech, Melania's team of writers took notes on her life's inspirations, and in some instances included fragments that reflected her own thinking".
Consider the space program, which spent billions on exploration but is able to commercialize a surprising amount of inventions: Teflon, Velcro, pacemaker componentry, non-evasive breast-biopsy technology, infrared thermometers and digital speech technology.
Even Pacino's speech patterns, which forge a kind of evasive switchback trail up a mountain of thought, serve as a defense against too much parsing of his interior.
Asked whether he understood the speech to be a direct challenge to Mr. Arafat's rule, Mr. Abdulrahman was evasive.
Less lyrical in his speech than Jesse Jackson, his contemporary and regular confidant, he is also less evasive - giving answers to questions that are asked rather than set speeches he has pre-prepared.
