He has tremendous ball hawking instincts, and his quickness and speed helped him deflect and break up many other passes. Swartz also possesses good ball instincts and has a knack for making plays.
He fought it with humor. He always used humor to deflect it off him.
We've had passengers stranded on taxiways for longer than that. I think it's really going to be a session for the secretary to browbeat people and really deflect blame from the Department of Transportation and the FAA.
It's clear they are trying to button up some of their previous problems with PR and to deflect criticism about all of their purchasing of former U.S. officials. It's a move that is clearly designed to make them look like a regular company.
There were certain instances where I used humor to deflect questions, and I guess some reporters took offense,
Newspapermen, as journalists used to be called, have long been charged with the sin of cynicism. a characterization that many of us encourage to deflect attention from our far more widespread flaw, incorrigible sentimentalism.
The FDA commissioner's job is to absorb and deflect criticism of the agency ... Crawford failed that test.
I think everybody is covering their posteriors with the Enron scandal and it was very convenient that Sept. 11 came along to deflect the fact that they should never have been in the White House in the first place. What happened in the election was completely corrupt.
They were shots from quite a distance away which our goalie was tracking. One of our guys would deflect the ball and make it change direction a little and our goalie was not able to react in time. This was two good teams battling each other. I was very encouraged with how we looked.
A guy went down and I just shot it on net, hoping it would go in or hit off someone and deflect in. Fortunately, it went right in there for me.