Significados de polite evasion em inglês

Michael looked as if he expected my polite evasion, and it didn't impress him.

This, I must confess, was a polite evasion of truth.

Was there real good-will in it, or polite evasion?

Equivocal as the young girl knew her silence appeared, she was unable to utter the simplest polite evasion.

T-S was gazing at the speaker, not certain whether this was something very terrible, or only a polite evasion.

He had assumed that the supreme issue had been decided by a polite evasion; and his question had been innocent of all momentous meaning.

"Speak clearly and regardless of polite evasion," commanded Wang Ho.

They must be kept hidden, veiled with mystery-ifone wished to refer to them, he must employ metaphors and polite evasions.

Between the two strong natures there was no subterfuge, no suggestion of polite evasions, of tergiversation, only the plea of truth to truth.