| You read them and you see a man so cautiously calculating not to put a foot wrong that he envelops himself in a fog of caveats and equivocations. |
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| The excuses, explanations and equivocations are strictly for public consumption. |
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| It is at any rate more candid than the notoriously slimy postwar equivocations of Albert Speer. |
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| Inevitably the postelection media were full of tactful equivocations, brave faces and the search for silver linings. |
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| So much so, that there will be no equivocations or amphibolies, and everything which will be said intelligibly in that language will be said with propriety. |
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| He admired Mr Blair's courage over Iraq, comparing it favourably with Michael Howard's lawyerly equivocations when the going became difficult. |
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| So its equivocations over Russian conduct in Chechnya, if no greater than those of many western governments, strike an unhappy note. |
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| Their equivocations seem to have taken our mandarins by surprise. |
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| You provided a balanced analysis of Hergé's ideological equivocations. |
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| The veiled style of Henry James, with its subtleties, equivocations, and qualifications, perfectly reflects his complicated and subtle mind and his abiding awareness of ambiguity in human motives. |
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| Some blacks were alienated by Toussaint's perfidies and equivocations, his mysteriousness, and the occasional atrocities he thought necessary amid such dangers. |
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