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irresolution

[ UK /ɪɹˌɛzəlˈuːʃən/ ]
NOUN
  1. the trait of being irresolute; lacking firmness of purpose
  2. doubt concerning two or more possible alternatives or courses of action
    his indecision was only momentary but the opportunity was lost

How To Use irresolution In A Sentence

  • While his mind had been pursuing its intangible phantoms and turning in irresolution from such pursuit he had heard about him the constant voices of his father and of his masters, urging him to be a gentleman above all things.
  • Such is Kerry's reputation for irresolution that even when he does talk tough, America's adversaries don't take him seriously.
  • These various cries of the assailants, contradicting each other, showed their irresolution; while Richard, his foot still on the archducal banner, glared round him with an eye that seemed to seek an enemy, and from which the angry nobles shrunk appalled, as from the threatened grasp of a lion. The Talisman
  • If you have a negative character, you are likely to fall victim to laziness, irresponsibility, low self- esteem, irresolution. Quitting- mindedness, recklessness, compulsion and emotional impulsiveness. Dr T.P.Chia 
  • If you have a negative character, you are likely to fall victim to laziness, irresponsibility, low self- esteem, irresolution. Quitting- mindedness, recklessness, compulsion and emotional impulsiveness. Dr T.P.Chia 
  • But in all this there is no difference between a physicist, a historian, and a philosopher; and again, slowness, want of skill, and even helplessness are something totally different from the peculiar kind of irresolution that Hamlet shows. Shakespearean Tragedy Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth
  • And then the word "irresolution" leaps forth, and all is explained. The Contemporary Review, January 1883 Vol 43, No. 1
  • The modern mind attempts to cleanse itself, to ‘scour away’ what it believes to be painful impurities, to think its way out of irresolution.
  • Premier Guy Mollet, in the center of it all, havered uncomfortably. Once again irresolution was at the helm in France.
  • It is constantly seen that the waverer, of nervous atrabiliar constitution, no sooner overcomes the agony of irresolution, than he flings himself on his object with a vindictive tenacity that seems to repay him for all the moral humiliation inflicted on him by his stifled doubts. Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 1 of 3) Essay 1: Robespierre
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