The phrase "display reluctance" is correct and can be used in written English.
It is used to describe a situation when someone hesitates or expresses resistance to doing something. For example, "The student displayed reluctance when asked to present her project to the class."
He initially displayed reluctance to fill the role due to his loyalty to former coach Moores - the man who engaged him as his assistant two years earlier - but has since established himself as one of the most highly-regarded coaches in world cricket.
After Franco's repeatedly displayed reluctance to talk, the abandonment of this topical line becomes an available option.
Extract 4 illustrates one way of dealing with this practical problem: pursuing the topic across the client's repeatedly displayed reluctance.
In his analysis of topic proffering sequences, Schegloff [ 15] observes that when a speaker proffers a topic and the recipient displays reluctance to take up and develop the proffered topic, the first speaker can issue a "second try" (p. 173 175).
But there is also a hypocritical deal in place here — that when you do so, you should do so with at least a display of reluctance.
And the imaginability puzzle is the puzzle of why, in certain cases, readers display a reluctance or inability to engage in some mandated act of imagining, so that typical invitations to make-believe are insufficient to bring about the requisite response on the part of the reader.
Rana lives and works in the Middle East and understands tipping culture very well; sometimes an initial refusal is part of the ritual dance of tipping - the display of reluctance, followed by the insistence and finally the acceptance.
If the seller displayed any reluctance, Ramadas would take his hand, look him in the eye, and tell him, "I know what I'm doing.
