Sentence examples for a irresolute from inspiring English sources

You have to sort of say that an hour of Internet material is like a season of television shows, so that each episode of an Internet season is going to be a two-minute episode, with a beginning, a middle, a complication and a resolution, even though the resolution itself may have a irresolute aspect to it that will power you into the next segment.

So its use at the end of a resolution, even an irresolute one, means that the Security Council remains in possession of, or control of, or is still really interested in, "the matter," and nobody else had better seize, grab, snatch at or glom on to jurisdiction over it.

It was an irresolute end to a mission that began as a humanitarian operation but was broadened by the United Nations to include the disarmament of Somali militias, in what General Pace now regards as a mistake.

Then I saw that she was holding her hand out, palm upward but close to her body, in an irresolute play for a gift of candy from the American, but almost as soon as she had mustered the courage she lost it and turned away from me in embarrassment.

Technically, this is said to be an irresolute procedure, and a tie-breaking rule needs to be combined if we wish to ensure a unique result (as common in social choice theory).

His Will Francis, a fashionable London landscape architect, is an irresolute young man — kindly, generous, and fair-minded, but also egotistical and careless.

There's a hint, of course, of Charon ferrying the dead to Hades; a glimmer of Varanasi, where corpses wrapped in white muslin are borne through the streets to the cremation ghat, to be burned by the lapping water; and then the disturbing notion that all of Venice is a city of the dead — that Jeff is already a wraith (so skinny!), rotting from within and inhabiting an irresolute shadowland.

Toomey was a candidate of the conservative base, angered by the loss of power and dismayed by an irresolute Party establishment.

But ignoring these principles is likely to lead to dumb decisions and an irresolute, even chaotic government.

Like Bruno Bauer, he considered Hegel an irresolute republican, whose political thought had to be pushed in the direction of popular sovereignty.

The play follows two main stories, which are only tangentially linked: that of Frank Thorney Justin Blanchardd), an irresolute young man who finds himself inconveniently married to two women, and that of Elizabeth Sawyer (Charlayne Woodard), the title character, a ragged and desolate woman who is scorned as a witch by the people of Edmonton well before she becomes one.