Sentence examples for to avoid commitment from inspiring English sources
"Most are looking to avoid commitment.
He once told Mr. Pinter that "the secret of happiness is whores," indicating that he wanted to avoid commitment.
In a successful effort to avoid commitment to a marriage alliance that he considered dangerous and distasteful, the poet purposely remained drunk for 60 days.
As it has become routine, inshallah has also become a kind of convenience, a useful dodge, a bit of theological bobbing-and-weaving to avoid commitment.
Irony, after all, represents a form of detachment; like the knee-jerk acceptance of the positions of others, it's a defensive mode that enables one to avoid commitment and stand above the fray.
It has resulted in characters like Natalie Portman's in "No Strings Attached," who does everything in her power to avoid commitment, even with a guy she's actually in love with; or Lisbeth Salander in Stieg Larsson's Millennium trilogy; or pretty much every character Jodie Foster has played since "Nell" or, possibly, "Freaky Friday".
His mother encouraged him to see "fast women" to avoid commitments that might hurt the act.
In some male orders, members eschew the priesthood so as to avoid commitments (e.g., parish work) outside the cloister.
All that is laudable enough, but will also require political horse-trading as governments Europe's leaders are due to meet in March to discuss the various energy proposals try to avoid commitments that may hurt domestic energy companies or make European firms less competitive than rivals in America, Asia and elsewhere.
They often use procrastination, bumbling inefficiency, and the exasperating excuse of "I forgot" to avoid commitments or let you down.
Allori et al. (2007, Other Internet Resources) appropriately have pointed out that this position amounts to avoiding commitment about the PO ontology of the theory and, consequently, to leaving vague the precise and meaningful connections it permits to be established between the mathematical description of the unfolding of physical processes and our perception of them.
