(n.) Want of decision; want of settled purpose, or of firmness; indetermination; wavering of mind; irresolution; vacillation; hesitation.
Example Sentences:
(1) Another indecisive election result could do for it.
(2) This dilemma is at the heart of many people's anguished indecision over the wisdom of our action in Iraq.
(3) The decision to drop the tax is a personal blow for Hollande and only one of a number of government U-turns since he was elected, fuelling criticism that he is indecisive and lacking presidential authority.
(4) She has already started her rounds of the constituencies to garner support, and has profited from Johnson’s indecision on whether he would or would not return to parliament.
(5) I graduated in 2012 and since then i've worked some freelance work in sound engineering, photography and videography and taken on only one part time job, moved between two cities generally being indecisive about my future.
(6) The procedure can be done smoothly and quickly without any indecision as to its consequences.
(7) Pringle found these conferences “brilliant and often informative”, but “they used to drive me nearly frantic because of the difficulty of getting a decision.’ Katharine Whitehorn , the women’s page editor, famously declared that “the editor’s indecision is final”, but although Astor would sometimes allow his journalists to vent opposing views in print as well in person – Nora Beloff and Robert Stephens on Israel and Palestine, for example – he always had the final say.
(8) The reported arms deal comes at a time when Saudi Arabia, a traditional US ally, has sharply criticised the United States for what it regards as indecisiveness on Syria, as well as Washington's attempts at reconciliation with Iran, Saudi Arabia's regional rival.
(9) It was stressed that besides the kidney functional state the state of certain basic clinical indecision had also to be given consideration, as blood pressure values, cardiovascular system state, presence of difficult-to-be-corrected anemia as well as certain social factors.
(10) Elastica, The Menace (Deceptive, 2000) Hip, arty and bristling with pop hooks, Elastica's eponymous debut was one of Britpop's finest hours, but fluctuating line-ups, indecision and heroin dogged the follow-up.
(11) Ed Miliband was either too indecisive in his rejection of Blairism, or simply an inadequate exponent of that view.
(12) Johnson is the master-builder of that image, deflecting every lie, every gaffe, dishonesty and U-turn with some self-deprecating metaphor: calling his feigned indecision “veering all over the place like a shopping trolley” was worth a world of worthy platitudes.
(13) Some, however, expressed frustration at what they saw as indecisive tactics by their senior command, as well as a general lack of police numbers and of riot-trained backup officers.
(14) The word is none-too flattering, meaning being indecisive, or failing to have an opinion on something – behaviour that Germans often attribute to Merkel.
(15) He indirectly signalled that Europe's attempts to get to grips with the crisis over the past 18 months had been disjointed, indecisive, and unproductive.
(16) The fear of looking ridiculous is one of the primary reasons that bold decisions like this are not taken, because when you start weighing up the myriad ways a particular course of action could go wrong, then you become riddled with self-doubt, second-guess yourself and become paralysed with fear and indecision.
(17) In a finer grain analysis, the stable and commonly endorsed individual PDQ items were compared with previously reported panic disorder and normal control subjects, which showed that the present sample was more like the panic patients in their tendency to see themselves as rather unassertive, indecisive, self-critical, and emotional individuals who are easily frustrated and feel rejected when criticized by others.
(18) A government audit also found about half of the reconstruction budget had yet to be distributed owing to red tape and indecision over how the affected communities should be rebuilt.
(19) This is about much more than Tony Blair's slipperiness or Gordon Brown's indecisiveness.
(20) For months she has held to a hard line; now her toughness is beginning to look like indecisiveness.
Quandary
Definition:
(n.) A state of difficulty or perplexity; doubt; uncertainty.
(v. t.) To bring into a state of uncertainty, perplexity, or difficulty.
Example Sentences:
(1) He’s a great defender when he hits you but when you have guys like Matt Giteau who is light on his feet and can change direction …” And what of England, hosts of the tournament who, beset by selection quandaries, forgot the fundamentals against France last weekend.
(2) On occasions, they result in some diagnostic and therapeutic quandaries.
(3) 12.06pm BST Our own Dan Lucas was first to answer the refereeing quandary of the day, pointing out that Fifa's Law 17 says this: A goalkeeper who is injured while kicks are being taken from the penalty mark and is unable to continue as goalkeeper may be replaced by a named substitute provided his team has not used the maximum number of substitutes permitted under the competition rules.
(4) This, if anything, demonstrates the quandary and complexity of financial regulation.
(5) These two distinct paradigms lead to divergent treatment goals, which leaves the clinician in a quandary about how best to treat an individual who experiences a drinking problem.
(6) The quandary is a familiar one to every football fan who has watched his or her team score a goal while surrounded by rival supporters.
(7) "Egypt is in a quandary – it doesn't want to punish Gaza by closing the tunnels, but it needs to secure Sinai," said one western diplomat.
(8) The quandary of how to determine the value of human life and health is an essential problem but is certainly not straight forward.
(9) Some of the theoretical quandaries associated with the concept are briefly reviewed.
(10) Specific quandaries arise with involuntary hospitalization and treatment, and with evaluating patients for the courts.
(11) Since RecA protein lacks demonstrable helicase activity, the mechanism by which it pushes strand exchange through long heterologous inserts has been a quandary.
(12) This leaves Scotland's policymakers in something of a quandary: how can you tackle a problem when you don't know what is causing it?
(13) Practical solutions to the quandaries posed by the qualitative-quantitative dichotomy are explicated, with supporting methodological examples for nursing research studies.
(14) Such thirtysomething quandaries, of course, are found in greater-than-average concentration in Hollywood, where a good deal of the writers, directors and executives fall into this group; this is one reason why so many of these films have been produced.
(15) "The whole of the radio industry is in a bit of a quandary.
(16) This fixture has, in the Wenger era, been all about Arsenal's possession of the perfect answer to every quandary.
(17) One of the biggest quandaries among those who study radicalisation is identifying the point at which individuals move from "extremism" to "violent extremism".
(18) Knitting and sewing take place at its Los Angeles HQ, and it boasts an enviable benefits package for its workers (on the flipside, CEO Dov Charney has been dogged by accusations of alleged sexual harassment, which throws up its own ethical quandaries).
(19) And therein lies a quandary: how can a casual who must only say yes ever enter into a real and honest dialogue with the permanent staff who employ them?
(20) Underlying it all, there's not only rightful compassion for victims, but also perhaps relief that we don't have to face such quandaries.