Justice O'Connor's comments, as fascinating as they are, have to set some kind of record for detachment (she calls the court on which she sat for 25 years "it" — avoiding the more apt "we") and also for understatement.
They were silent as they approached it, avoiding its flailing limbs as they began to tear off pieces of flesh with their sharp teeth.
NATO said there had been a Russian incursion into Ukraine, which is not a member of its mutual defense pact, but it avoiding calling it an invasion.
Fans of Johnson's work don't just admire its aesthetic, but also the spirit in which he created it – avoiding the infrastructure of the traditional art world to instead distribute his works through the mail, which led him being hailed by some as the founder of the "mail art" movement.
This time, as the shark came alongside the ship, she swam straight away from it, avoiding the cradle again.
But I have another day in the country and I don't want to spend it avoiding airborne rocks.
