Evasive Action

An evasive action or evasive maneuver is an exercise aimed at avoiding an object, attack, or opponent. It may also refer to:

  • Evasive Action (webcomic)
  • Evasive Action, an older computer game
  • Evasive Action (1998 film)

Famous quotes containing the words evasive and/or action:

    “The guided missiles,
    The black-and-white angels follow each quirk and jink of
    The evasive sheep, play grandmother’s-steps behind them,
    Freeze to the ground, or leap to head off a straggler”
    —Cecil Day Lewis (1904–1972)

    “It has always been my practice to cast a long paragraph in a single mould, to try it by my ear, to deposit it in my memory, but to suspend the action of the pen till I had given the last polish to my work.”
    —Edward Gibbon (1737–1794)