Word: eschewing
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Many members of the Faculty agree, and eschew the responsibility of closely monitoring the academic lives of students. They deny that any group of persons--even the Faculty of Harvard University--should infringe upon the degree of academic freedom of choice that exists here today...
...church did not discipline those bishops who previously broke church rules in ordaining women. The house set up a committee to talk with the schismatics, issued an "appeal" to them to return, and stated that it "decries and repudiates" Chambers' activities. It also appealed to all bishops to eschew unauthorized "episcopal acts" so long as they remain members of the House of Bishops...
...your first official trip to Western Europe, I suggest you eschew Air Force Two and try a magic carpet for size, since many magical things are expected of you and the Carter Administration...
WHILE MOST AMERICANS in the 1970s have lost the capacity to feel rage, or at least to express it openly with any amount of integrity, Edward Albee has consistently infused his work with an unsparing timeless fury, an articulate anger that refuses to eschew the audience. The free-flowing profanities in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? no longer shock as in the sixties but engage attention and accent the sardonic humor strung across two of the play's three grueling acts...
Kupka's oeuvre remains in the suburbs of art. The paintings reflect the currents of the time; they imitate, sometimes innovate, but they lack that certain force of original expression. Kupka is unwilling to take his experiments with line, color or form all the way; he tends to eschew the radical for the pleasing. Perhaps as a result of this tentative quality, he never developed a style of his own. Though his paintings can be grouped into "periods" and arranged in chronological sequence--as has been done at the Guggenheim show, which closed last week--these periods are not stages...