Without seeing Mr. Mueller's underlying report, he said, it was impossible to evaluate the merits of both Mr. Mueller's demurral and Mr. Barr's decision to make a definitive statement in favor of Mr. Trump.
He has to be the only hot young rapper who's managed to mix braggadocio with reticence, making silent demurral a kind of personal trademark.
Might he know how to get a copy of her book to Charles Dickens? "Were the subject any other I should think this impertinent & Egotistical," Stowe wrote, making of demurral a poor cloak for presumption.
This is true even though he has not made a new pop record since "River of Dreams" in 1993: an admirable demurral.
A demurral: "Making such determinations would be inappropriate for a statistical agency, which must refrain from policy advocacy to main its credibility among data users".
Ms. Hong often does the matchmaking, and she brooks no demurrals once she, or one of the four other comedians with whom she performs, has made an instamatch.
Warren came by our offices last week for an hour-long interview, and, while she made the ritual demurrals about a run for the Presidency, she spoke with a combative focus on precisely the issues that Clinton ceded to Trump in the 2016 race.
Having been a member and supporter of the A.C.L.U. for over 50 years, I offer a demurral to a couple of points made by Mr. Shapiro.
The title of the book itself does something like this: "the best of it" is simultaneously a boast ("These are my best poems"), a demurral ("This is the best I can do"), and, most powerfully of all, a description of Ryan's stoic art (poetry is the way she "makes the best of it").
Sometimes a demurral sounds like a drumroll.
But if a customer asks to see them, Mr. Albrizio mumbles a demurral: Why not choose something else?
