Asked if such action was still an option, Mr Mazanga was evasive "Words cannot kill", he said.
Actually, that's unlikely: why did he use such evasive wording if he didn't know that he was improving on the truth?
Moore, however, goes for extra credit with the piercing specificity of her character's slide into the abyss: subtly shifting the set of her jaw from scene to scene, she articulates newly evasive words with a determination that soon snaps achingly into defeat.
The answer boils down to those three evasive words (wait for it): I don't know.
In person, he's mischievous, often evasive, with words whistling through his crooked gnashers.
Romney, of the hard, piercing voice and evasive, crumbly words, refused to say whether he considered waterboarding to be torture, and as he did so the camera, moving close to McCain's face, captured his temporomandibular muscles pulsing with frustration and anger.
Despite the poet's evasive designs, her words rush at us so directly that they often appear to bear the authentic stamp of personal event.
But he had to watch every word and be evasive when talk turned to his parents, to the girlfriend who had left him, to women who attracted him, to the way he lived.
Richard Fagg, deputy managing director, was neither hostile nor evasive, but still chose his words carefully.
