Examples of evasive

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Moreover, the garden, tailored as it is, does not give full access to an ever-elusive, evasive, non-human natural.
Although it is true that resistant and evasive responses are commonplace, these are managed with considerable care.
British citizens therefore often give evasive responses in order to prevent conflicts.
His defense is at once authoritative and evasive: authoritative because it treats the issue of dreams correctly, and evasive because that is the wrong question.
Of course the very proposal would be liable to the disagreeable circumstance of either a direct refusal, or at best an evasive answer.
The exploration and critique of this evasive antihistorical maneuver is one of my fundamental concerns.
Qualities of persistence and determination when confronted by the evasive or blatantly unco-operative now assume considerable significance.
As sketchy and evasive as this autobiography is on major issues, it nonetheless raises crucial historical questions.
The definition of the levels for the parking attribute proved to be an evasive task throughout the construction of the experiment.
Opportunities to dispel or discount the ever-present rumours of inter-group hostility and to negotiate peace painstakingly proved evasive.
After this quite evasive introduction one would expect the nucleus to follow, in the form of his judgement about the issue at question.
Disobedience to the law must meet the same conditions that drive any act of civil disobedience or evasive noncompliance.
She also cited evasive and speciesist language that serves the flesh industry.
Nonetheless, oral sources generally tend to be evasive in regard to theft.
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