109 examples of irresolution in sentences

So, turning the pros and cons over in his mind, Gifford walked slowly on in a state of irresolution till he came to a wicket-gate which admitted from the road to a path which ran through the churchyard.

The dream of Brutus before the battle of Philippi probably produced a species of irresolution and despondency which was the principal cause of his losing the battle; and I have heard that the illustrious sportsman, to whom you referred just now, was always observed to shoot ill, because he shot carelessly, after one of his dispiriting omens.

He was clicking the rings on his fingerssymptom of irresolution that made Marcia grit her teeth.

When before the magistrates he had professed an expectation that he should be able to induce the king to comply with the wishes of the Assembly, and a determination to restrain the excesses of the mob; but the whole day had been so wasted by his irresolution that when he at last put his regiment in motion it was seven o'clock in the eveningfull four hours after Maillard and his fish-women had reached Versailles.

This is the first chance Hamlet has hadwithin the playof killing the king, and any imputation of faulty irresolution therein is simply silly.

The heat from the burning embers was intense, and as we passed slowly by we viewed, with anger in our hearts, the lamentable results of the timidity and vacillation, the irresolution and culpable neglect, of one man.

I do not blame their somewhat precipitate departure, perhaps it was necessary; nevertheless it seems to me that their presence would have put an end to irresolution on the part of timid people.

It was necessary for him to be supported by some one who had his confidence and was capable by his own firmness of fixing the irresolution of the Prince.

It is the penalty of caution, that it sometimes appears, even to itself, like irresolution, or timidity.

The tide ran like a mill-tail, and it was, perhaps, lucky for us that there was no time for reflection or irresolution; the aspect of things being so serious as might well have thrown the most decided man into uncertainty and doubt.

After four years of continued trouble and irresolution, in which, George tells us, he had again and again made the endeavor to sacrifice Victoire to his mother's happiness, and after the birth of several children, who soon ceased to live, he wedded her by civil rite.

By the fault of irresolution, "Shall I marry or shall I not!"

He had no power to resist, all was wickedness, irresolution, constant yielding.

Convinced that extreme necessity would alone conquer the Emperor's irresolution and render powerless the opposition of his bitter enemies, Bavaria and Spain, he henceforth occupied himself in promoting the success of the enemy and in increasing the embarrassments of his master.

Minheer Vanderhausen's direction in Rotterdam he was fully possessed of; after some irresolution he finally determined to journey thithera trifling undertaking, and easily accomplishedand thus to satisfy himself of the safety and comfort of his ward, for whom he entertained an honest and strong affection.

431-3; coolness with her brother, i. 486, n. 1; irresolution, her, i. 486, n. 1; Johnson's affection for her, i. 486, n. 1; bequest to her, iv.

Even so, and though her face betrayed trouble and some irresolution, she did not blench, but faced her accuser with a slowly rising passion that overcame her shyness.

But the jealousy and irresolution of the tribes prevented the actual formation of a league.

Duke John hesitated, from irresolution even more than from distrust.

The admirals were tardy in bringing up the fleet; their irresolution caused the failure of operations that had been ill-combined; the squadrons entered port again.

I was saying before George Selwyn, that this journal put me in mind of the present time, there was the same indecision, irresolution, and want of system; but I added, "There is nothing new under the sun.

I fall asleep in a fever of irresolution.

At no period did he show such irresolution as at this time.

[Sidenote: Irresolution most painful to them.]

On this courageous Monday, therefore,whatsoever he was to do during the week he always decided on Mondays,after months of irresolution he finally determined to make a second dash for slavery.

109 examples of  irresolution  in sentences