Sheldon Cooper, the commitment-wary physicist, ramped up his courtship of Amy Fowler, the skittish neurobiologist.
As Mr. Romney confronts the rise of Mr. Santorum, whom polls now show running even with him nationally, Mr. Flaherty, a Catholic, has been handed an urgent and tricky task — winning over social and religious conservatives who remain suspicious of the candidate's ideological commitment and wary of his Mormon faith.
Broughton is begrudging of commitments and wary of profile.
Some immigrant rights activists are holding out for deeper commitments and remain wary of the former secretary of state.
Bernard's romantic nature meant that he was usually in love, but wary of commitment.
But several seemed to want a much greater federal financial commitment, which he seemed wary of making.
Both Mr. Kerrey and Ms. Paley, who had never been married, admit to having been wary of commitment, as was evident by the way they planned their wedding.
At the same time, demand for workers who can design Web sites, configure servers, create content and exploit wireless technology is exploding here, though the young people who have these skills are wary of commitment to any one employer.
But in the face of a citizenry skeptical of government action at home and wary of commitment abroad, Mr. Clinton managed to shape a new kind of limited executive activism that kept the presidency in the thick of things, whether in modest domestic initiatives or efforts to promote peace and trade around the world.
Walsh and Goodman have very different approaches to relationships -- she tends to "jump right in," whereas he is more wary of commitment.
Xers are the traumatised products of such misadventures: cautious, wary of commitments that cannot be kept, scrutinising the world sans rose-tinted John Lennon glasses.
