Sentence examples for hesitant if from inspiring English sources

Even those who were anti-Semitic were hesitant, if not embarrassed, to express it.

You will struggle to feel hesitant if you're this well prepared.

"He thought he had a chance to get him," Yankees Manager Joe Torre said, referring to Posada, "and you certainly don't want him to be hesitant if he thinks he has a shot".

Unused to being the centre of attention, he is an occasionally hesitant, if thoughtful, speaker, though the story of the creation of Familial is convoluted, as you might expect from someone who waited until he was past 40 before he went solo.

"I would have been hesitant if Guild didn't jury.

The shift from justifiable in the earlier quotation to excusable in the later clearly needs more explanation; Walzer seems hesitant, if not confused in his resort to these categories.

After three decades Mozilo can be forgiven if he is hesitant, especially if selling means handing his company over to unworthy competitors.

It is very hesitant, as if it is pressing on the brakes".

Jimbo followed, but was more hesitant — as if he might have the power to carelessly make something worse.

Yet he was also hesitant, as if, because of the novel's spiritual subject matter, he felt shy.

Shoppers peered at the display, excited but hesitant, as if they'd stumbled upon a trove of strange inventions from a Jules Verne fantasy.