"Evasiveness" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... then saw her would return upon Julius, as prophetic of much. Quailing in spirit, still reluctant, in his asceticism, to comprehend and reckon with her personality in the fulness of its present manifestation, he answered her at random, and with none of the pause and playful evasiveness ...
— The History of Sir Richard Calmady - A Romance • Lucas Malet
... he went on, pleasantly, interested by her transparent evasiveness. "You must think something of me. ...
— Jennie Gerhardt - A Novel • Theodore Dreiser
... to answer, but Kelly, persistent, bored into his evasiveness until Kate tired at the discussion: "Tell him what you're going for and be done with it," she said tartly. The reaction of three days had not left her own nerves unaffected; she admitted to ...
— Laramie Holds the Range • Frank H. Spearman
... All the work in which Larcher had enlisted Davenport's cooperation was done. Larcher would have projected more, but the artist could not be pinned down to any definite engagement. He was non-committal, with the evasiveness of apathy. He seemed not to care any longer about anything. More than ever he appeared to go about in a dream. Larcher might have suspected some drug-taking habit, but for having observed the man so constantly, at such different ...
— The Mystery of Murray Davenport - A Story of New York at the Present Day • Robert Neilson Stephens
... very curious that we, as well as others, were able to note her apparent sincere belief in her own statements about her family. As she made them she looked the interviewer straight in the eyes; there was not a hint of evasiveness. ...
— Pathology of Lying, Etc. • William and Mary Healy
... driven out at the kitchen door, never to be heard of more, while Richie rises into Sir Richie of Castle-Collop—the reader may perhaps at the moment think by too careless grace on the King's part; which, indeed, Scott in some measure meant;—but the grotesqueness and often evasiveness of Richie's common manner make us forget how surely his bitter word is backed by his ready blow, when need is. His first introduction to us (i. 33), is because his ...
— On the Old Road, Vol. 2 (of 2) - A Collection of Miscellaneous Essays and Articles on Art and Literature • John Ruskin
... with Mr. Verne's evasiveness. Like most women she had a fair share of curiosity, and now ...
— Marguerite Verne • Agatha Armour
... of procedure was different now—as though he had made up his mind that her negatives were, after all, only coyness and youth startled by the novelty of the proposal. The fitful evasiveness of her manner when the subject was under discussion countenanced the idea. So he played a more coaxing game; and while never going beyond words, or attempting the renewal of caresses, ...
— Tess of the d'Urbervilles - A Pure Woman • Thomas Hardy |
