Sentence examples for as irresolute from inspiring English sources

Right-wing Catholics denounced him as irresolute on issues like Aids, the defence of Catholic schools, and political priests like Mgr Bruce Kent (who later resigned).

Whatever has been responsible for the interminable nature of the shuttle/space station era, rightly condemned by Mallon as "irresolute and unimaginative," it's certainly not been a preoccupation with hard science.

In addition to writing and directing three films of his own, he's also taught at La Femis, the Parisian film school associated with the so-called New New Wave of French filmmaking (exemplified by such directors as Mr. Desplechin and Oliver Assayas, who cast Mr. Amalric as the irresolute hero of "Late August, Early September" in 1998).

Disgusted with the political situation in Weimar Germany and characterizing it as especially irresolute or inauthentic, Heidegger looked upon Hitler's movement as a way of recalling the German people back to their "ownmost" possibility i.e., a way for Germany to constitute itself authentically as an alternative to the political models of Russia and the United States.

Swanberg has become a very capable low-key director; the performance he coaxes out of Olivia Wilde as the irresolute, slightly self-damaging Kate is particularly touching.

But Baumeister and Tierney aren't endorsing a return to a preachy puritanism in which people are enjoined to resist temptation by sheer force of will and condemned as morally irresolute when they fail.

There are long, irresolute scenes as well with Jack's ineffably cultivated childhood friends Anne Katee Winslet and Adam Stanton Mark Ruffalolo).

Hoping that the king would take the lead of the patriot cause, liberals were disappointed at the irresolute, business-as-usual attitude of the monarchy when the Estates opened at Versailles in May 1789.

Sparta, resolute in war as it was irresolute in politics, scored a crushing victory over its enemies.

Coming alongside the U-turn over health policy, Cameron will be aware of the danger in being seen as weak or irresolute.

The first time he came inside, he seemed irresolute, as though he were ashamed and not at all sure what he was looking for.