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What is another word for evasions?

Pronunciation: [ɪvˈe͡ɪʒənz] (IPA)

Evasions typically refer to the act of avoiding or escaping something. Synonyms for evasions include dodging, eluding, sidestepping, circumventing, skirting, shirking, ducking, deflecting, misleading, and ambiguity. Each of these words indicates a different approach to avoiding the intended outcome. Dodging implies a quick and sudden movement to avoid something. Eluding refers to avoiding capture or detection. Sidestepping indicates a subtle move to avoid an obstacle. Circumventing suggests finding a way around a problem. Skirting means to go around the edge of something. Shirking implies avoidance of responsibility. Ducking means to avoid meeting someone or something head-on. Deflecting indicates diverting attention or blame. Misleading means to intentionally deceive. Ambiguity suggests uncertainty or vagueness in communication.
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  • In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics.' All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia.
    George Orwell
  • It is to be hoped—I mean, I hope—that the poetry I have been writing since 1992 squares up to, takes the measure of, weighs up, the violent evasions and stock affronts of the oligarchy of fraud. I don't, even so, write poems to be polemical; I write to create a being of beautiful energy.
    Geoffrey Hill
  • In our age there is no such thing as ‘keeping out of politics.’ All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia.
    George Orwell
  • All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred, and schizophrenia.But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought. A bad usage can spread by tradition and imitation even among people who should and do know better.
    George Orwell
  • However—the crucial thing is my lack of interest in ordinary life. No one ever wrote a story yet without some real emotional drive behind it—and I have not that drive except where violations of the natural order . . . defiances and evasions of time, space, and cosmic law . . . are concerned. Just why this is so I haven't the slightest idea—it simply so. I am interested only in broad pageants—historic streams—orders of biological, chemical, physical, and astronomical organisation—and the only conflict which has any deep emotional significance to me is that of the . . . especially the laws of . . . . Hence the type of thing I try to write. Naturally, I am aware that this forms a very limited special field so far as mankind en masse is concerned; but I believe (as pointed out in that article) that the field is an authentic one despite its subordinate nature. This protest against natural law, and tendency to weave visions of escape from orderly nature, are characteristic and eternal factors in human psychology, even though very small ones. They exist as permanent realities, and have always expressed themselves in a typical form of art from the earliest fireside folk tales and ballads to the latest achievements of Blackwood and Machen or de la Mare or Dunsany. That art exists—whether the majority like it or not. It is small and limited, but real—and there is no reason why its practitioners should be ashamed of it. Naturally one would rather be a broad artist with power to evoke beauty from every phase of experience—but when one unmistakably such an artist, there's no sense in bluffing and faking and pretending that one .
    H. P. Lovecraft

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