As she had feared, sleep sedulously avoided her eyes.

For the first week he sedulously avoided her, together with her two children.

Richard Brown and his brother were both sedulously avoiding looking at him, focused instead on Jamie-who was still gripping his arm.

He sedulously avoided my glance.

Ostentatiously dressing in local fashions, deliberately not carrying a camera, and "sedulously avoiding the standard sights," the antitourist doesn't have much integrity or agenda beyond his self-conscious decision to stand apart from other tourists.

The protagonist lives in a dilapidated hotel on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, sedulously avoiding other people and content to heat soup on a hot plate and listen to his Bach and Mozart tapes.

He sedulously avoided my eye, indicating that he had.

Wylie gave a thin smile, sedulously avoiding looking at me.

Jamie's eyes were fixed on the tent pole, sedulously avoiding mine.

Perhaps it's only that they give those of us who sedulously avoid the taint of transgression in our own more workaday performances pause to reflect on the endless mystery of gender.