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the irresolute
adjective
Undecided or unsure how to act
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There was the irresolute coverage of the Falklands war ("If we believe the Argentinians... while if we believe the British... ..)... ..
Swanberg has become a very capable low-key director; the performance he coaxes out of Olivia Wilde as the irresolute, slightly self-damaging Kate is particularly touching.
While the wise ones stumble against a wall, the uneducated, the irresolute, the lazy, and the conformist remain peacefully in the corner".
At the same time, in Prussia the irresolute Frederick William IV had been gradually persuaded by the conservatives to embark on a course of piecemeal reaction.
The irresolute conduct of the Phocians contributed to the Greek defeat by Persia at Thermopylae (480); at Plataea they were on the Persian side.
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He earned the nickname Hamlet on the Hudson — irresolute, ambivalent, overwrought.
"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.
Spectacular unmanned probes on the order of Galileo and Cassini, yes; but where manned spaceflight is concerned, NASA currently continues on the same irresolute and unimaginative road it has traveled since Richard Nixon's last years in the White House.
At the moment the US and the UK look irresolute - talking about increasing help to the rebels without spelling out what they are doing, talking about a diplomatic solution when none is in sight.
What Ails the UN Security Council?, The UN Security Council's irresolute wrangling in 2003 over whether to use force in Iraq spurred pointed questioning by many observers about its relevance and even its future.
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