An important reason for this was their eschewal of the conventional 'straight' man, two-dimensional and irritable.

The term cognitive closure has been defined as "a desire for definite knowledge on some issue and the eschewal of confusion and ambiguity."

Mr. Previn's eschewal of emphatic musical gestures, sometimes verging on the phlegmatic, occasionally proved frustrating.

Historian Durwood Dunn, describing the Spences' eschewal of the more populated bottomlands, explains:

This is to be understood not as an eschewal of the enjoyment of life but a recognition that spiritual and religious goals are impeded by such indulgence.

The interpretations hold few revelations, essentially hewing to the latest Baroque orthodoxy in their adoption of altered rhythms and their eschewal of rhetorical gestures.

All the same, it has a curiously old fashioned format, not least in its eschewal of the art of photography in favour of the traditional sketch diagrams.

The audience was charmed by her wholesome looks, her talent and her eschewal of the Britney Spears-clone outfits that other contestants wore like a uniform.

But also, in its pursuit of aesthetic efficiency and its eschewal of excess ornament, Modernist design produced objects of Platonic timelessness.

His typical eschewal of display - the tempos were uniformly moderate - seemed to disappoint the audience, whose polite response suggested that Mr. Cliburn's celebrityhood needed freshening.

Japanese food, with its premium on uncooked or fleetingly cooked ingredients, with its eschewal of sauces and its relatively small armory of spices, reflects other aims and virtues.

By adopting the Legacy Outback nameplate as used in Europe, these 2003 onwards models also marked the cessation of Subaru's eschewal of the Outback identity for Japan.

Christine Brewer's small covered sound was a little out of place, but one admired her eschewal of crowd-pleasing repertory (she sang from Dvorak's "Rusalka" and from "Die Freischutz" by Weber.

In accordance with Ben's eschewal of "drama" and production in favor of "real reality", most cases air days after the shoot with minor cuts and editing used only to fit the documented footage under 10 minute segments.

"What you see is what you see," Mr. Stella proclaimed at the time, and Mr. Ruban still says the same thing today in his statement here, explaining his work's eschewal of "reference to nature or social commentary."

Mr. Leinsdorf - celebrated for the depths of his knowledge and for his eschewal of conducting's glamorous excesses - has been working with these young Europeans, ages 14 to 23, during their two-week residence in Palm Beach, Fla.

Ferdinand's older brother earned for himself the sobriquet "the Pius" for his melancholy demeanor, his ardent attachment to prayer and meditation, and, more obviously, for his eschewal of hunting, dancing, and other frivolities that dominated social life in a 16th century court.