The first Japanese invasion (See 1592), sent by Toyotomi Hideyoshi, was met by irresoluteness and poor planning. From Wordnik.com. [1506-44] Reference
If America projects an image of irresoluteness in the world, does that not make us more vulnerable to future attacks?. From Wordnik.com. [From the WSJ Opinion Archives] Reference
Always knocking, always thinking can't instead of can, will make fear, irresoluteness, uncertainty and weakness of character. From Wordnik.com. [Evening Round Up More Good Stuff Like Pep] Reference
There is ample reason to think that these shows of weakness -- or, more precisely, of irresoluteness -- emboldened America's enemies. From Wordnik.com. [From the WSJ Opinion Archives] Reference
Macbeth is destroyed by vaulting ambition that o'erleaps itself; Hamlet is ruined by irresoluteness and contemplative procrastination. From Wordnik.com. [The Theory of the Theatre] Reference
But Brown senses the hidden irresoluteness of Jim, a man who had come to this remote, small world in the Pacific in search of redemption. From Wordnik.com. [Karzai and the Scent of U.S. Irresolution] Reference
On the contrary, our country and our region cannot afford to persist with the current blend of directionless absenteeism, and meddling factionalism and general irresoluteness. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
Certain lines about the nose and cheek, betray the satirist and cynic; the mouth indicates a child-like simplicity — perhaps even a degree of irresoluteness, inconsistency — weakness in short, but a weakness not unamiable. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Charlotte Bronte] Reference
Lastly, in the very fever of my irresoluteness, I made with my body many such motions as men sometimes would, but cannot, if either they have not the limbs, or these be bound with bands, weakened with infirmity, or any other way hindered. From Wordnik.com. [The Confessions] Reference
Challengers to the liberal international order take heart not only from Washington's irresoluteness, but also from the knowledge that they no longer have to worry about facing large-scale, effective coalitions of liberal states that may curb their larger ambitions. From Wordnik.com. [Angsty Allies] Reference
We are disgusted with Obama's irresoluteness on Afghanistan. From Wordnik.com. [Center for American Progress Action Fund] Reference
He had perfect courage, and resolution even in his seeming irresoluteness. From Wordnik.com. [Robert F. Murray: His Poems with a Memoir] Reference
The trembling limbs of physical irresoluteness was a new experience to her. From Wordnik.com. [Beauchamp's Career — Complete] Reference
The sleekness and speed of modernity are pitted against an older, sedate irresoluteness. From Wordnik.com. [The Telegraph - Calcutta (Kolkata) - Frontpage] Reference
"That is hardly an impression," said Clara, pacifying her irresoluteness with this light talk. From Wordnik.com. [Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith] Reference
He always had a natural irresoluteness, but I cannot say to what this irresolution is to be attributed. From Wordnik.com. [Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims] Reference
Solomin left his hat alone, the more readily as Sipiagin, who had observed his irresoluteness, exclaimed. From Wordnik.com. [Virgin Soil] Reference
His insult to her class acted upon her as a spur and overcame the irresoluteness that seemed to have beset her. From Wordnik.com. [The Trampling of the Lilies] Reference
He has always suffered from an habitual irresoluteness; but I do not know to what this irresoluteness should be attributed. From Wordnik.com. [Three French Moralists and The Gallantry of France] Reference
"Then you should be willing to vacate my premises er -- or --" here is where I began to show irresoluteness -- "or explain yourself.". From Wordnik.com. [A Fool and His Money] Reference
The new incumbent, who had brought to the Throne of Galavia all the libertine's irresoluteness, paced the floor in perplexed distress. From Wordnik.com. [The Lighted Match] Reference
Majesty his irresoluteness, which made the Chancellor still impose upon him, that the King did not think the better of the Chancellor or the. From Wordnik.com. [Life of Edward Earl of Clarendon — Volume 02] Reference
There must be no indifferency and irresoluteness in our minds, if we will be Christians: we must not stop at the gate, but resolve to press in. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of Dr. John Tillotson, Late Archbishop of Canterbury. Vol. 06.] Reference
This irresoluteness of the will can be still more clearly seen in contemporary German literature, and in particular in the author of Die versunkene Glocke. From Wordnik.com. [Musicians of To-Day]
Because of his irresoluteness, or because of the weakness of his eyes, he steps uncertainly, touching the ground cautiously and with a certain degree of fear. From Wordnik.com. [The Crushed Flower and Other Stories] Reference
It was this, that, inducing a certain irresoluteness of thought and action, had led him into a manifestation of peevish contradiction in his address to Ephraim Giles. From Wordnik.com. [Hardscrabble; or, the fall of Chicago. a tale of Indian warfare] Reference
His very melancholy, and the dejection of spirits he had so long been in, produced an irresoluteness and wavering of purpose which kept him from proceeding to extremities. From Wordnik.com. [Tales from Shakespeare] Reference
His very melancholy, and the dejection of spirits he had so long been in, produced an irresoluteness and wavering of purpose, which kept him from proceeding to extremities. From Wordnik.com. [Tales from Shakespeare] Reference
A mass of tangled hair fell across her eyes; her arms hung limply at her sides; small, modish riding hoots showed beneath the hem of her skin, forlorn in their irresoluteness. From Wordnik.com. [Truxton King A Story of Graustark] Reference
Her eyes were hot and dry, sometimes so full of resolution that they were stern in their steadfastness, and again her face expressed a pathetic irresoluteness and sadness that made the mother's heart ache. From Wordnik.com. [Without a Home] Reference
Certain lines about the nose and cheek, betray the satirist and cynic; the mouth indicates a child-like simplicity -- perhaps even a degree of irresoluteness, inconsistency -- weakness in short, but a weakness not unamiable. From Wordnik.com. [Life of Charlotte Bronte — Volume 2] Reference
With the rude irresoluteness of armed force, with the awkwardness of a vaguely understood purpose, the soldiers seized Him and dragged Him off -- mistaking their irresoluteness for resistance, their fear for derision and mockery. From Wordnik.com. [The Crushed Flower and Other Stories] Reference
He did not see why he should leave the field clear to all comers, even if he were out of the running himself; a line of irresoluteness which affords an excellent exemplification of the remarks wherewith we have opened this chapter. From Wordnik.com. [The Sign of the Spider] Reference
Sometimes he would ask Sporus to raise the funeral lamentation, then he would implore some one to set him an example of courage by dying first; sometimes he would chide his own irresoluteness by saying -- 'I am a base degenerate man to live!. From Wordnik.com. [The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius] Reference
The beginning of hostilities was marked nevertheless by the success of the Smalkaldic allies; but division and irresoluteness soon weakened them and caused their ruin in Southern Germany, where princes and cities submitted in rapid succession. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon] Reference
But his constitutional irresoluteness obstructed his path continually; brain-sick, weak of will, emotional, timid even, he temporised, procrastinated, brooded; came to decisions in the dark hours of the night, only to abandon them in the morning. From Wordnik.com. [The Octopus : A story of California] Reference
For the besetting irresoluteness of the. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, April 1, 1914] Reference
It would drive him mad! "exclaimed Hepzibah, but with an irresoluteness sufficiently perceptible to the keen eye of the Judge; for, without the slightest faith in his good intentions, she knew not whether there was most to dread in yielding or resistance. From Wordnik.com. [House of the Seven Gables] Reference
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