Sentence examples for hesitant manner from inspiring English sources

He spoke in a slow, hesitant manner, "like a schoolboy reading in a bad light," as an acquaintance noted.

Although we're all talking in a careful, hesitant manner that we quickly dub "conference English", our 10 days of discussions prove incredibly exciting.

Then, having prodded the snake again, he discarded the stick and carried on pecking at it "in a noticeably less hesitant manner".

Toward the climax of the concert, Yorke returned to the news, dedicating the song You and Whose Army (albeit in a hesitant manner) to the Bush administration.

He approaches the wicket in a prissy, hesitant manner, like Dale Winton running over hot coals, and went for more than a run a ball.

"We've always been more comfortable letting the wines speak for themselves," said Mr. Kistler, a lean, private man with a quiet, almost hesitant manner.

On the one side was a quick, single-minded young woman with a passion for argument; on the other an exceedingly reserved man with a hesitant, circumlocutory manner and an aversion to direct eye contact.

He has a deep, drawly voice – so deep he used to be known as Basso Profundo when he worked at the Times Literary Supplement in the 80s – and a hesitant, donnish manner, but his brown eyes sparkle behind his glasses, and he laughs a great deal, managing to take himself very seriously and at the same time not in the least seriously.

There is something almost ecclesiastical about his manner – hesitant and a little pained, without being unfriendly – a deliberation one recognises from his roles.

He speaks in an affectless, hesitant drawl, and his distant manner suggests a wisdom that cannot be translated into human language.

For most of the novel she speaks in a manner that is flat, hesitant, muted, deliberate.