Roosevelt, "suddenly silent and irresolute, seemed to have lost his touch..
He was stubborn about revisiting decisions, hating to appear irresolute.
Until then, James had found a new way to infuriate his detractors — by staying silent, seeming distant and irresolute.
After first threatening, then backing off, a military strike against Syria, and now suddenly confronting a diplomatic opening with Iran, Mr. Obama has employed a foreign policy that has at times seemed improvisational and, in the view of many critics, irresolute.
"The most powerful man in the world seems strangely powerless and irresolute," Milbank laments eerily.
To quote Churchill, Europe's leaders seemdecided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all-powerful to be impotentA year or two ago, the EU leaders seemed to be operating on the theory that, if Greece could just be propped up, Italy and Spain would have the time to address the problem.
("He does not hesitate at our boldest Measures, but rather seems to think us too irresolute," John wrote to Abigail, perpetually annoyed at Franklin's gift for arriving late at a party and then lighting all the candles on the cake).
Thus Descartes advises Elizabeth that "though we cannot have certain demonstrations of everything, still we must take sides, and in matters of custom embrace the opinions that seem the most probable, so that we may never be irresolute when we need to act" (1645, 4 295, my emphasis).
Mr. Bush's problem, it seems, was not so much that he was dissolute as that he was irresolute.
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