Evasion
The act of eluding or avoiding, particularly the pressure of an argument, accusation, charge, or interrogation; artful means of eluding.
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Evasion Quotations
Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being, to which we rarely penetrate; for our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves.
T. S. Eliot
A daydream is an evasion.
Thomas Merton
In all secrets there is a kind of guilt, however beautiful or joyful they may be, or for what good end they may be set to serve. Secrecy means evasion, and evasion means a problem to the moral mind.
Gilbert Parker
Bad humor is an evasion of reality; good humor is an acceptance of it.
Malcolm Muggeridge
What I try to do in a play is put a problem on stage, head-on, without evasion.
Edward Bond
Identity theft involving these cards is a growing form of white collar crime, facilitating illegal immigration, banking and accounting fraud, tax evasion, and other nefarious activities.
Ron Lewis
People will say that it's some kind of evasion, but I would never want to have a kid for me. I'd want to have the child for the child's sake, if that makes sense.
Jeremy Northam
The difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is the thickness of a prison wall.
Denis Healey
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Evasion Translations
evasion in German is Umgehung
evasion in Italian is elusione
evasion in Latin is tergiversatio
evasion in Swedish is undflykt, undanflykt
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