irresolutions

Instead, he added pointedly, "Probably we give our audiences a greater vote of confidence than you do with some of your fears and irresolutions."

Caught in the Crossfire: Adrian Scott and the Politics of Americanism in 1940s Hollywood 2007

He was wrong to think that it would ever be possible to put behind him the tangled web of irresolutions into which his galactic travels had dragged him.

So long, and thanks for all the fish Adams, Douglas, 1952- 1984

Hamilton, not able to conceive what could prevent her from completing his happiness, since in his opinion the first and greatest difficulties of an amour were already overcome, with respect to the public, resolved to abandon her to her irresolutions, instead of endeavouring to conquer them by a more vigorous attack.

Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete Various

His first thought was to pretend sickness: the second to suspect that the queen, who sent for him at such an unseasonable time, was in the plot; but at last, after all the extravagant ideas of a suspicious man, and all the irresolutions of a jealous husband, he was obliged to go.

Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete Various

False perceptions, false reasoning, illusions, anomalies of the will such as impulses, irresolutions, and crazes, the deficient moral sense on which the abnormal intelligence builds up systematic delusions, which are interpreted as philosophical principles, place these persons in a category apart as extra-social beings.

Spontaneous Activity in Education Maria Montessori 1911

Letters and notes of all kinds; impetuous messages asking him when he would return; letters apologising for her selfishness -- he had better remain with Mount Rorke until his consent had been obtained; resolutions and irresolutions, ardours, lassitudes, forgetfulness followed fast in strange and incomprehensible contradiction.

Spring Days 1892

It was a series of efforts, of irresolutions, and of frettings to seize again certain details of the theme he had heard; what he had conceived as a whole he analysed too much when wishing to write it, and his regret at not finding it again, in his opinion, clearly defined, threw him into a kind of despair.

Frederic Chopin as a Man and Musician Niecks, Frederick 1888

He served the Holy Father, even in his irresolutions.

The Roman Question Edmond About 1856

All the forenoon and afternoon Faribole was plunged in the darkest despondency, and when the fatal hour sounded, he was assailed by the irresolutions of the previous day.

The Story of a Cat ��mile de La B��dolli��re 1847

They were to explain, on the part of the States, their delay in sending this solemn commission, caused by the tardiness of the King of Spain in sending his ratification to the treaty, and by the many disputations caused by the irresolutions of the Archdukes and the obstinacy of their commissioners in regard to their many contraventions of the treaty.

PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete John Lothrop Motley 1845