Sentence examples for sidesteps in from inspiring English sources

An infamous White House memorandum written by Egil Bud Kroghgh (the future Watergate convict, likably played by Colin Hanks) reports that Nixon repeatedly warned Presley of the need "to retain his credibility" and bizarrely "indicated that he was aware of how difficult it is to perform in Las Vegas", deliciously off-kilter details that the film sidesteps in favour of more slapstick silliness.

I believe there are many genuine cases which were sidestepped in this deal.

Yet the wider problem of cruel and prolonged death is sidestepped in this debate.

Neveu's script goes round and round, ducking and sidestepping in ways that feel less than purposive.

David Bowie's embrace of soul music was the most unlikely sidestep in his musical journey in the 1970s.

One issue cannot be entirely sidestepped in any public presentation of human evolution: that many people in this country doubt and vocally oppose the very concept.

Wider questions about American foreign policy, or how ordinary Afghanis and Iraqis felt about being invaded, are sidestepped in favour of heat-of-the-battle immediacy.

Fili Seru, the possessor of the finest sidestep in a team where few players would deign to do anything as mundane as running in a straight line, scored two of their final total of 10 tries.

It is not hard to spot historians' sidestep in deploying statements like "Lincoln stopped talking about colonization" as substitutes for "Lincoln abandoned colonization," thus leaving open the possibility that he continued to pursue it out of the spotlight.

The fourth song is a sidestep in that Weir seems to be assuming another persona, writing a love song to the moon with a vocal line, in Italian, that plays subtly with almost operatic styles.

He has tried to soften the edges of conservative decisions by, for example, sidestepping in his critique last week of the University of Michigan's affirmative action program the compelling question of whether race should remain a consideration in college admissions.