Want to avoid thinking about any of this next year?
You may even avoid talking or thinking about the event.
But it was difficult to avoid thinking about such a man.
He'd learned the hard way to avoid thinking too far ahead, in this place.
"The key is to avoid thinking about it in the first place."
It is not, however, because they avoid thinking about financial safety.
He needed someone to talk to so as to avoid thinking about the possibility of war.
She had managed to avoid thinking about them until now.
"I don't want them to be able to avoid thinking about this."
During the drive home, she avoided thinking about that phone call.
But how could we manage to avoid thinking of everything at the same time when it was all so serious?
"I've been trying to avoid thinking of that possibility since I first heard about it!"
He could not avoid thinking of himself as an intruder, an interloper.
And constant activity can become a way of avoiding independent thinking.
She had avoided thinking of it all day, but now the memory asserted itself.
He was doing his best to avoid thinking, to just exist.
Through it all, he studiously avoided thinking of his father.
He tried to avoid thinking of how no one had told him the tower was rusty.
The snipers said they were trying to avoid thinking of their Iraqi opponents as men with families and children.
I am not sure, however, that we have entirely avoided confused thinking.