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is irresolute
adjective
Undecided or unsure how to act
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She can't quite make out what she wants, apart from a baby, and Frank, wounded and defensive after a failed marriage, is irresolute and changeable, too.
"Enactment of this Kosovo provision would send the message to NATO that the United States is an unreliable ally, to Slobodan Milosevic that the United States is irresolute," the senators said.
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under siege from spectators, who threw objects at him dispelled for the moment the notion that he was irresolute.
Sparta, resolute in war as it was irresolute in politics, scored a crushing victory over its enemies.
But at a moment calling for decisiveness, he is, in Churchill's phrase, "resolved to be irresolute".
He recognized that when he was irresolute it was in response to his upbringing, but caution, in general, paid off for him.
Mr. Bush's problem, it seems, was not so much that he was dissolute as that he was irresolute.
Once again, Mr. Derrida was accused by critics of being irresolute, this time for failing to condemn Heidegger's fascist ideas.
To equivocate is closer to prevaricate, dissimulate, which mean "to obscure so as to deceive," or more plainly, "to lie," and to dither, hesitate, falter is "to be irresolute in action, unsteady in belief".
The final line of the Crisis Cell's targeting policy ordered the heads of security branches to "periodically supply the National Security Bureau with the names of security agents who are irresolute or unenthusiastic".
But in another remarkable phrase he warned his contemporaries that they must never be, as he put it: "Resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity and all powerful for impotence".
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