Some sarcasm, deliberate avoidance of the interviewer's questions, much awkward silence.

There are times when the "plain talk" that Bloom and Wunsch advocate distorts the truth through a deliberate avoidance of complexity.

But his deliberate avoidance of choreographic variety made the productions numbing rather than bracing.

She didn't care that her deliberate avoidance of Roarke was petty.

The firm is known for its deliberate avoidance of publicity and is among the premier investment banks in the media and entertainment sector.

She smiled at his deliberate avoidance of her questions.

There seems to have been a deliberate avoidance of considering all the facts in the case.

He went on to define meanness of style as the deliberate avoidance of unusual words.

It is the clear and deliberate avoidance of the direction implied by the "yes" decision.

During the 1940s, Potter's work was still mostly figurative, but showed deliberate avoidance of ordinary representation.