Sentence examples for skirt around it from inspiring English sources

Bennett's genius is for the imploding situation in which a cleverly made house of cards shudders and comes down; the comments of his characters as they nimbly pick their way around the wreckage ("I suppose there's a word for what I'm doing," the spinster says, "but... I skirt around it") verge on aphorism.

We might be able to skirt around it.

I knew birth had to be part of that; I didn't want to skirt around it.

This can be tough, depending on how your employees are trained, as they'll sometimes try to skirt around it.

So deal with the hassle, even though it may seem easier to skirt around it.

That's the real tug of war between these shows: they see the abyss so clearly, we are fooled into believing we can laugh it off or at least skirt around it.

- as we have preferred to skirt around acknowledging its very existence and the searing impact it has on our nation.

In 1299 the village of Pandon was formally incorporated as part of the city, and so the wall made a sharp turn to the east to skirt around Pandon until it reached the river.

For all the impressive technology that allows the Moto X to listen, at all times, for the sound of our voice, or pay for goods with a swipe of a phone, the smartphone ultimately underscores an uncomfortable question consumer tech companies are skirting around: When it comes to smartphones, are we out of ideas?

Three percussive pieces were grouped around a fourth, Mozart's Piano Concerto in C (K. 503), which gathered up its skirts around it and held forth at some length, with a hint of elegant disdain.

You skirt around some etiquette.