Philip Roth would seem to be loath to surrender all control over the interpretation of his exquisite prose.
People in Mr. Lloyd Webber's circle aren't sure when, or if, a retooled version of the musical will reach Broadway, but Mr. Lloyd Webber is said to be loath to shut the door to that possibility.
He was said to be loath to lose either of them, and became convinced that they had to leave only over the last several days, as executives and outside advisers flew in to help manage the crisis from the company's gleaming granite and glass offices in the Wapping district of east London.
The Pentagon is likely to be loath to give up its enormous investment in robotic soldiers (in the words of Peter W. Singer, "Predator [drones] are merely the first generation")., and few parents would prefer to send their own sons (or daughters) into combat if robots were an alternative.
Several others of us felt that it seemed like it had been pretty much a given that no matter what evidence might surface about the Russians' involvement, for whatever reason he was always going to be loath to criticize Vladimir Putin.
