demurral

After years of demurrals, Meadow Ridge, a for-profit care community in Redding where Auslander lives, recently announced plans to erect solar panels over two parking lots and the roof of one building in the complex.

Then again, given the absurdly lax nature of the ethical rules for the Court, I'm more than ready to believe there was enough wriggle room to make Alito's demurrals plausible if not persuasive.

Bobby tried a psychological tactic himself during that game, despite his oft-quoted demurral, “I don’t believe in psychology—I believe in good moves.”

In fact, it was the third time Mr. Biden has said so, making the nothing-to-see-here White House demurrals that much harder to sell.

Then, in the last part of her demurral, amounting to slightly more than half of her brief statement, she teased a potential new project.