Sentence examples for slippery answers from inspiring English sources

The movie begins with a television interview in which Oppenheimer gives slippery answers to questions from Edward R. Murrow about humanity's capacity for self-annihilation, something he clearly doesn't want to take credit for having accelerated.

After Tennessee had rolled to a 21-0 first-half leandand the Giants had totaled as many turnovers (two) as first downs, after the Giants' offense and defense on too many instances looked stagnant, fractured and simply silly, the search began for slippery answers.

Slippery answer: The circumstances make for a taut moment, worthy of wide attention.

It was a slippery answer to a complex and painful question: What exactly does freedom of expression mean?

I can see that it must be frustrating, if you have such a definition in front of you to get some slippery Durkheimian answer about religion being actually the way that society understands and defines itself.

Although I have often listened with interest to what you've said during your long political career, I find these answers slippery and complacent.

The government's statisticians boldly set out to plumb the profundities of Britons' souls, to answer the most slippery of philosophical and psychological questions: what is happiness, and are you happy?

This is a perennial but weirdly slippery question among hyphenated writers, so answer-averse it's almost rhetorical, almost boring.

Indeed, Kerry showed how slippery the slope is when he answered a question by Chairman Robert Menendez, a Democrat from New Jersey who opposed the Iraq invasion but supports a Syrian smackdown.

But the traditional response to the slippery slope (or "parade of horribles") argument is "not while this court sits," and that is literally the answer to Toobin's hypothetical about nine mute justices.

"This is a really bad slippery slope," Clinton said during a question-answer session with Walter Isaacson at the Aspen Ideas Festival on Monday afternoon.