irresolution

• “The hour of my irresolution is past, and the period of your power is arrived.”

  Chapter 20

• “But behind his irresolution is his hatred of bloodshed: he could whip out his sword and on a sudden kill Polonius, mistaking him for the king (Herbert), but he could not, in cold blood, make up his mind to kill and proceed to execution.”

  The Man Shakespeare

• “She urged the conspirators to do their work, and chided in the strongest terms their irresolution and pusillanimity.”

  Nero Makers of History Series

• “The second cause appears to have been, the uncertainty of our merchants where to send the goods, and who to trust, as the fear of the extension of French power took away confidence, and produced a sort of irresolution, which is always hurtful to business.”

  An Inquiry into the Permanent Causes of the Decline and Fall of Powerful and Wealthy Nations. Designed To Shew How The Prosperity Of The British Empire May Be Prolonged

• “And then the word "irresolution" leaps forth, and all is explained.”

  The Contemporary Review, January 1883 Vol 43, No. 1

• “On this text, so often quoted in support of the orthodox "irresolution" theory, I will content myself at present with the remark, thats surely no one before or after Hamlet ever accounted for his non-performance of”

  The Contemporary Review, January 1883 Vol 43, No. 1

• “It was quite unnecessary to prepare me against any kind of irresolution of his.”

  George Selwyn His Letters and His Life

• “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

• “There can, I think, be little doubt that Madame de Staël, who frequently insists on his "irresolution" (remember that she had been in Germany and heard the Weimar people talk), meant him for a sort of modern Hamlet in very different circumstances as well as times.”

  A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century

• “They wanted a nation free from second thoughts, liberated from any obligation to get along with others—free of the wind factory at the United Nations, the endless diplomatic negotiations, delays, and irresolution.”

  Simon & Schuster: The Good Fight

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