non-committal answer
non-committal reply

Due to the non-committal answer firm the Germans, the negotiations did not lead to a policy that could be executed.

His rather startled non-committal answer to her invitation the previous night had left her feeling raw and embarrassed.

He made a non-committal answer and asked if Pretty and Sieke were enjoying themselves.

Shortly after her election, she appeared on Good Morning America, where she was asked about her interest in the vice-presidency and gave a non-committal answer.

When foreign journalists were occasionally bold enough to ask Ceauşescu whether he intended Nicu to be his successor he gave non-committal answers.

However Sinatra insisted that he be flown everywhere in a DC7 aircraft, and on one occasion, when Gordon gave a non-committal answer about the aircraft's availability, Sinatra's manager Hank Sanicola reportedly punched Gordon several times in the head.

I gave some non-committal reply and he glared at me.

He made a non-committal reply, and began a casual conversation about the country they were driving through.

"As well as can be expected, all things considered," was the non-committal reply.

"That remains to be seen," was the non-committal reply.

I am a physician,' was the non-committal reply.

Masefield's non-committal reply is displayed in the school museum.

Ashby sent a sympathetic but non-committal reply.

Briefly lifting his cap, the ginger giant produced, in foreign-accented English, a decidedly non-committal reply.

The driver mumbled a non-committal reply and thrust a ten and two fives at the attendant.

"Excellency has been very generous to me already," was the non-committal reply of the steward, whose eyes nevertheless twinkled at the mention of gold.

Very occasionally, if Hugo was three or four brandies deep, he'd offer a non-committal reply to an observation somebody made, but people who knew him well soon came to understand that he was not a proud father.

He made some non-committal reply and thought no more about it until, a couple of days later, when the mob was actually storming the chancery building in the main square, he looked out of the window to see the assistant military attache playing the pipes.