| But there was an empty stridency behind the quirks, the deflective signs of a crutch. |
| The towering centre-back used selective memory as a deflective tactic when trying to steer the talk away from personal disappointments. |
| In the usual form of deflective deck the armor is at such a small inclination with the horizon that it becomes very effective. |
| Polluter to use deflective booming to deflect oil to southeast of sandbanks for recovery. |
| A person, as I see it, is in progress, reflective and deflective of, and constructed from, his experiences and the experiences of others. |
| Operations to monitor polluter's deflective booming operations. |
