Sentence examples for subtle reluctance from inspiring English sources

One adviser said Mr. Giuliani's approach reflected a specific strategy: "We really felt we were ahead, so why start a campaign earlier than you have to?" Another sensed in the mayor a subtle reluctance: "I never quite saw the all-out lust for the office that I'd seen in the mayoral runs".

There has been a reluctance to engage beyond subtle reminders of such initiatives as Premier Skills, a community engagement scheme run by the Premier League and British Council.

But there is another, more subtle strata to the Grizzlies: the reluctance or refusal of some to accept the mantle of feminism at all.

Black activists say other examples of racism are more subtle, and thus insidious, such as a reluctance to allow blacks into elite restaurants or the strange looks they get in shopping malls or while walking in wealthy neighborhoods.

Making a diagnosis of LLD can be difficult for many reasons including more subtle presentations in older adults, coexisting medical illnesses, and reluctance to self-report symptoms.

The unwillingness to confront this narrative is tied not simply to the miasma of race but to something more subtle and, in the current atmosphere, more potentially treacherous: the reluctance to countenance anything that runs contrary to the habitual optimism and self-anointed sense of the exceptionalism of American life.

His reluctance, for instance, to give his performance high marks seemed a subtle way of telling the public to keep tuning in because he has more to offer.

I grew curious to find out whether Siri identified with a particular faith, but Siri's characteristic reluctance to answer personal questions led me to gather information in a more subtle manner.

At first, his problems had been fairly subtle, not much different from the reimmersion issues other Alpha Company soldiers were dealing with: a reluctance to be in crowded places, a heightened startle reflex, a tendency to watch the side of the road for anything unusual, as if even in rural western Pennsylvania a roadside bomb were still a possibility.

Particular attention must be paid to the status of the ears of children, due to the common reluctance of pediatric patients to complain about symptoms associated with cholesteatoma, especially when presentations are subtle or unilateral [ 39].

Subtle social connections with agreeable-looking pharmaceutical representatives do influence physician behavior, and, I suspect, contribute to physicians' reluctance to face the conflict of interest inherent in receipt of samples.