Sentence examples for a certain reluctance from inspiring English sources

There may be a certain reluctance to acknowledge this development.

The English have often confessed a certain reluctance to say good-bye to childhood.

But if I'm being honest there was also a certain reluctance.

At friends' houses, I've noticed a certain reluctance should macarons be produced at the end of supper.

But the way he has temporised and left doors open since his resignation suggests a certain reluctance to let go.

The Duke of Suffolk showed a certain reluctance to carry out the king's instructions to hang all of Yorkshire.

We may look upon change with a certain, natural reluctance.

"He felt there was a certain Waspy reluctance in his family to play the game, but in his view you should play your cards with vigor, every card you'd got," his son John says.

In Romania, there is certain reluctance towards the use of timber for public buildings as schools, hospitals or theatres, partly due to the wood's poor fire behavior.

In some institutions, this explant morbidity has induced certain reluctance towards autografts, particularly in children.

To travel to the particular somewhere Debussy wants, a certain effort against reluctance is needed.