| Despite regional variations Biedermeier style is therefore staid, sober, and particular, eschewing heroics and drama. |
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| Jogen Chowdhury is more direct, eschewing the archetype or the symbolic for the specific and explicit in his paintings. |
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| We celebrated this decision by eschewing mashed potato for a night and buying a scrummy looking continental salad from the supermarket. |
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| They could be relied upon to do it properly, often eschewing outright straight-line speed for a mesmeric blend of response, agility and feel. |
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| Congressional doves, by uniting around a strong offensive eschewing triangulation weakened the president. |
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| Of course, we could only laugh up our sleeves at the local toughs, eschewing violence as we did. |
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| His journalist colleague, eschewing meat, ordered a beanburger, the veggie's favourite standby. |
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| I'm not sure that eschewing the incipient vulgarity of the two marches by Wagner is entirely a good thing, though! |
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| Here every man, eschewing the pursuit of private interest, would devote himself to the common weal. |
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| If you're a vegan, eschewing all animal products, you most likely turn up your nose at weak-willed vegetarians who succumb to cheese. |
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| Maclean retained his early idealism and lived a life fully in accord with his Communist principles, eschewing all privileges. |
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| Cee-Lo Green comes from the soulful South, and his aptly titled second album finds the sizeable emcee eschewing the stereotypical rapper role. |
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| Why are so many bettors continuing to do business with local bookmakers, and eschewing offshore? |
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| Psychoanalytic approaches to film are often contrasted with cognitive approaches, those who support the latter typically eschewing the former. |
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| These included a dedication to narrative, an eschewing of poetic licence, a sense of clarity and a moral purpose. |
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| To ignore the last two elements in the chain is, some would argue, more damaging than eschewing responsibility for the planet. |
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| His call to reason and civil society and to eschewing irrationalities and violence is admirable. |
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| At this level, the book is remarkably sober, eschewing the melodramatic and avoiding definitive conclusions. |
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| Like a shooter with RPG elements, FTL uses permadeath and heavy randomization while eschewing the traditional dungeon crawl. |
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| This country has avoided faith-based violence by eschewing theocratic government. |
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| On the plus side, unlike Julian and Sean Lennon, she has been smart enough to avoid direct comparisons by eschewing a musical career. |
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| In one area, by the council's own admission, a thumping 70 per cent of homes are eschewing wheelie bins. |
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| The authors could be accused of displaying ultracrepidarian tendencies themselves, after eschewing the strictly economic analyses of their earlier bestsellers. |
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| Davies avoids the trap by eschewing the conventions of drama altogether. |
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| He cautions, however, that growing up doesn't mean playing it safe, eschewing civil disobedience in favor of staid meetings. |
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| For the paradox of the political novel is that its contribution to debate comes from eschewing conventional methods. |
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| We see this also in his eschewing of protectionism, which could trigger, as he put it, a trade war instead of global free trade. |
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| Let me start off by saying that your advice to us about eschewing broadcast-style regulation is well taken, but it could be outdated. |
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| Today, consumers are eschewing the passive role to which conventional media and regulatory authorities would confine them. |
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| To avoid criticism and exclusion, most organizations are eschewing advocacy work and focusing on service work. |
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| Deliberately eschewing an excessive concern with theory, it seeks above all to be a collection of good practices. |
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| However, we are eschewing wines from the EU in favour of wines from around the world, in particular Australia and California. |
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| While eschewing explicit racialism, advocates of immigration restriction expressed anxiety that the immigrants posed a threat to the homogeneity of the United States. |
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| His justification for considering himself the ultimate team player yet eschewing the notion of collective responsibility in public forums is that he is from another era. |
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| Which would be like the NHL eschewing videotape and listening only to the offending player in a disciplinary process. |
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| To his credit, the director establishes a consistent, measured cadence early and sticks to it, while eschewing the most obvious sentimental tricks. |
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| To reach a younger demographic, Jensen and his ilk are eschewing mainstream acts and building brand identity with cutting-edge, forgotten, and obscure music. |
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| From the beginning of their career, this multi-ethnic fusion group has set out to stir things up, eschewing the musical mainstream and creating their own inventive mix of Celtic rhythms and Kabyle vocals. |
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| And so the wealthy are going blingless and eschewing the spending sprees of the recent gilded age. |
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| Extraordinarily, George Gabrielli was still selling ice cream from a horse-drawn cart in 1963, eschewing the new-fangled petrol and diesel vans. |
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| Old money aristocracy might be eschewing hiring butlers, but across the world the number of domestic staff from the UK is rising. |
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| The key to developing as an authentic leader is not eschewing your extrinsic motivators but balancing them with intrinsic motivators. |
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| As I was talking with the head of a banking institution, the executive expressed his disappointment that the Forum was completely eschewing a major topic for the future: the agricultural and food issue. |
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| The big news in the mainstream press as I was writing this column in December was that celebrities are now eschewing smartphones for flip phones. |
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| In the Tempo di Menuetto, Beethoven recalls the conventions of the past, eschewing the more fashionable scherzo, but seems to mock them by burdening a graceful theme with heavy accents and rhythmic ambiguity. |
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| The challenge of the future will be to tackle this demographic change in an affirmative way, eschewing any sense of old age being a burden on society or posing a threat to the individual. |
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| It has fallen victim to its high quality, however: behind the wheel the experience is completely clinical, eschewing all contact with the outside world. |
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| Yet she lived for 27 years in a converted 13th-century church in Tuscany, happily eschewing the literary whirl, writing longhand in spiral-bound notebooks that were sent to her from Edinburgh. |
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| After eschewing the Law, he pursued a livelihood through writing. |
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| He lived abstemiously for his entire life, eschewing pleasure for purity. |
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| Eschewing cheap sentimentality, it casts an unflinching, but compassionate eye over the unpredictability of real life. |
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| Eschewing passive voyeurism or manipulative choreography, the photographer genuinely wanted to understand and befriend these artists. |
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| Eschewing the traditional end-of-term merriment the night before, slogging through the mud can hardly compare to bopping in the pub. |
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| Eschewing all the modern panoply of medical and technical assistance, Harrison believed in honest hard graft as his road to the top. |
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| Eschewing low rise is one thing, but jeans should not cover your belly button. |
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| Eschewing the model of the totalitarian monolith, Neumann's was the first influential attempt to analyse the structures of the regime in terms of a multitude of power blocs. |
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| Eschewing the accepted practice of hiring a good PR man to sell the product, they wheeled out an uninformed and ungroomed treasurer as a sacrificial lamb. |
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| Eschewing the ostentatious gentility of readers, who enjoy parading their superficial knowledge, she pursues her intellectual work without need of an audience. |
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| Eschewing schools and musical fashions, he wrote a great deal of music which is seldom heard, exploring bitonalites and partly delving into the realm of atonality. |
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| Eschewing modern trends, he remained a figurative artist working in oil. |
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