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avoid and stay away from deliberately

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While his mode of rhetoric and comportment are at a distance from the classic populist model of leadership, his rapport with the 'common man/woman', his 'plain-speaking' style and his eschewal of some of the more stringent sartorial norms placed on politicians all serve to signify a degree of affinity with the wider public.
Rosenquist's eschewal of simple narrative content and his corresponding embrace of pictorial fragmentation, wide swings in scale, and discordant juxtapositions were all part of a deliberate strategy.
Jordanian Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi warned that the conflict could reach mammoth proportions if Israel's destructive actions persist, saying that the eschewal of violence would bring peace to the region.
Their eschewal of any effort to cultivate a shared understanding in the American people of the character of the problems defining the world today reflects an absence of comprehension on their part of what politics is - the achievement of shared understandings, shared at least by a majority, to ground and stabilise the actions of a democracy.
JM: Here the modernist patriarch is still Clement Greenberg, making cameo appearances with his 1958 essay on 'Byzantine Parallels'; but his interest in the icon is ultimately limited by his very eschewal of convergence.
The very factors that enable online P2P platforms to deliver loans quickly and broadly -- that is, their reliance on consumer credit-ratings databases and eschewal of collateral or guarantees -- can generate risks, as they leave important questions about borrowers unanswered.
If the preference was tied to chronology--John Shearman believed that black chalk head-studies were mostly a product of Sarto's late career--the eschewal of a conventional chronological hang at the Frick obfuscates this.
The Sarris-Kael assault on Fellini was part of a broader shared attitude toward the explosion in the early 60s of what they perceived to be an increasingly unfettered European auteurism on the art house circuit, with its corresponding eschewal of readable referential meaningfulness.
Given the harmful impact of the Indians' eschewal of horsemeat and the fact that most incorporated it into their diets quickly when faced with coercive measures, it is puzzling that Townshend did not compel them to begin eating horse earlier in the siege.
An instance of Defoe's eschewal of metaphor occurs early on when, putting into a creek for the night, somewhere on the north-west coast of Africa, Crusoe spends a sleepless night due to the constant howling and wallowing of some unspecified "vast great creatures" ([1719] 2001, 22).
In this way has centered African common sense been rendered ineffective and relegated to non-entity status leading to (1) theological misorientation en masse with accepting of religions used deliberately as a tool of race-war to reinforce docility in ADPs, hagiographic assessment of associated religious personages and officials, abjuration of centered religious heritage, and jihad against same--instead of a scathing laughing-at-ya and eschewal; and (2) "scissors and sword fighting" (pardon the euphemism) as lifestyle choice behaviors of sexual misorientation disorder--instead of the gender complementary principle at the root of the African-centered worldview that positions heterosexual functioning as foundational and indispensable to the nature of African human nature.
Much of that poetry is cinematic, stemming from Berg's eschewal of the painstaking blocking and lighting needed for flawless, high-definition "eye candy." There's plenty of visual beauty in Friday Night Lights, but no eye candy.
Thus, Aquinas's invisibility, lack of "personal style," and eschewal of unnecessary provocation is celebrated in rhetoric that is sometimes Chestertonian (36, 65, 95).