He stood there, a bit too frail or unwilling to shake our hands.
Rare is the writer who is willing to complain that the big problem with Churchill during the war was that he was, frankly, a bit of a coward and unwilling to try to identify with the people he governed, but Morrissey is that writer.
Mr. Walker and his colleagues tried to paint the unions as unwilling to sacrifice a bit of their pensions and health benefits in rough fiscal times.
On Friday, the White House backed off a bit — forging a compromise so that unwilling religious employers would not pay for contraception, while women would still get the coverage — but many administration critics weren't mollified.
For our part we hacks might say he was now a bit too defensive, a bit too unwilling ever to admit a mistake.
Speaking in 2013 Rendell suggested "Vine was a bit more serious, a bit more searching, analytical perhaps", but was unwilling to define the difference between the two sides of her writing life.
"It's nice to play someone different, a bit of a vamp", she says of her character, Myra Arundel, an unwilling guest at the country house party from hell hosted by the hectically bohemian Bliss family.
I would take Mr. Brooks's position a bit further and argue that the "establishment" has been, for many years, unwilling to probe and confront the array of fundamental problems that confront education.
Astoundingly, it seems the oppressed are unwilling to give up their friends and neighbors for a bit of cash, with immolations carrying on into November, including the first incidence of a triple immolation.
