In the absence of strong, clearly defined dramatic action James's leisurely plots can feel frustratingly irresolute, and the characters' many scruples and hesitancies, so evocative on the page, can become downright puzzling on the screen.
This is precisely the sort of human algebra that Raban bends his characters around throughout the book, to fascinating yet irresolute effect.
If he'd had a pronounced or strong character, that might well have bothered me, but he was dithery in a weak-minded, irresolute kind of way, so whatever he might be thinking didn't worry me in the slightest.
You are invited to attend anniversaries; your irresolute face is video-recorded, your faltering voice, you hardly notice that you've become a kitsch supporting character in a fraudulent narrative, and you sell for peanuts your own story, which bit by bit you yourself understand least of all".
The play follows two main stories, which are only tangentially linked: that of Frank Thorney Justin Blanchardd), an irresolute young man who finds himself inconveniently married to two women, and that of Elizabeth Sawyer (Charlayne Woodard), the title character, a ragged and desolate woman who is scorned as a witch by the people of Edmonton well before she becomes one.
His delivery is purposefully nervous, artfully irresolute.
Alistair Darling has been resolutely irresolute.
"Almost Famous" is underdramatized and irresolute.
In James Bay he appeared irresolute.
He was stubborn about revisiting decisions, hating to appear irresolute.
