Deflecting

"There was a whole lot of what I call deflecting," Taylor, 59, said in recent interview. ❋ By SAMUEL G. FREEDMAN (2009)

The magnetic fields involved in deflecting the paths of particles in these detectors are often quite strong. ❋ Frank Close (2010)

But their real value may have been in deflecting attention from their troops — who enjoyed the largest collective payday on record. ❋ Unknown (2010)

At this point I am less interested in deflecting these questions to irrelevant points about the Liberals or the Taliban. ❋ Unknown (2008)

You guys are great at deflecting from the true point by splitting hairs. ❋ Unknown (2007)

This thread like so many others on this site is about deflecting from the real story of the New Orleans disaster. ❋ Unknown (2005)

These are people who have a specific, scripted message to get across, who want you to buy what they are selling, and are expert in deflecting logical deconstruction of their assertions. ❋ KaneCitizen (2005)

The upshot is that the subject of Krelcon dominated my audience with His Excellency the Galatic Emperor, deflecting from the knot of emotion I feel inside whenever I consider the matter of the rogue Han Solo being spotted at Ord Mantell, possibly in the company of my son. ❋ Unknown (2005)

All three of these navies will have a role in deflecting China, directly and indirectly, given the variety of dysfunctional Pacific Island republics that are strengthening their ties with Beijing. ❋ Unknown (2005)

In addition I’m not interested in deflecting your incessant false trails, subject changes and logical fallacies. ❋ Unknown (2005)

She swung her sword deflecting Lyn's armored hand to the side and watched the Shine Burst spell shatter the glass. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The uncertainty in her she could not disguise; sensing it, for one wild moment Spartacus toyed with the idea of deflecting his army south onto the via Cassia and marching on the city of Rome. ❋ McCullough, Colleen, 1937- (1993)

But U.S. government bureaucrats and politicians had other priorities, such as deflecting attention from – and cost of – the Gulf War illnesses. ❋ Unknown (2009)

But lately, her work seems to be kind of deflecting all of this sort of gossip and crazy lawsuits and things that come up. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Danica swung her sword deflecting the muddy arm. ‘ ❋ Unknown (2010)

But U.S. government bureaucrats and politicians had other priorities, such as deflecting attention from - and cost of - the Gulf War illnesses. ❋ Ray McGovern (2009)

So he ponders Moby-Dick, the quality of Melville's imagination, and the Cold War rhetoric that turned Ahab into a totalitarian dictator; The Scarlet Letter and Hawthorne's sense of sin; Thoreau's misanthropy and the advantages of reading Walden as autobiography; Whitman and his detractors and the possibility of "deflecting" their criticism by reading Leaves of Grass "notionally and provisionally"; and Twain, the Cold War rhetoric that turned Huckleberry Finn into an American idyll, and William Empson's understanding of the pastoral. ❋ Unknown (2005)