Sentence examples for with a direct answer from inspiring English sources

Colbert remains cagey with a direct answer, but then sidles over to a file cabinet.

Asked how Capital One plans to monetize its new investment, it didn't reply with a direct answer, only saying that Level Money is "one of many steps that Capital One is making to deliver a next-generation banking experience".

So when the director of "Lee Daniels The Butlerr" is asked why he thinks it was hard to get his new movie financed, he comes back with a direct answer.

Mr. McCall, after a pause, responded with something short of a direct answer.

Joe Lockhart, the NFL's executive vice president of communications and public affairs, declined in a conference call with reporters Tuesday morning to give a direct answer when asked whether the league believes that a team, under current rules, is within its rights to compel its players to stand for the anthem.

"It's not a direct answer," he admitted, with a certain impish complicity, "but it's as good as you're going to get.

He avoided a direct answer, replying: "I believe with all my heart that God created the heavens and the earth, the seas and all that is in them … How he did that, I'll ask him about some day".

I was unable to get Sandberg to give me a direct answer on who she thinks competes with Facebook.

Kavanaugh did not give a direct answer and engaged in a heated back-and-forth with Leahy.

[laughs] Trying to avoid a direct answer.

It's called a "direct answer".