(a.) Not resolute; not decided or determined; wavering; given to doubt or irresolution.
Example Sentences:
(1) The number of irresolute responses was significantly decreased following administration of diazepam, SZJ 3388 and Litoralon and was positively correlated with the TEE latency-decreasing activity of these compounds.
(2) Right-wing Catholics denounced him as irresolute on issues like Aids, the defence of Catholic schools, and political priests like Mgr Bruce Kent (who later resigned).
(3) The White House is considered irresolute on Guantánamo, lacking the force or the desire to impose a coherent policy upon the bureaucracy.
(4) At these patients we saw significantly more "valve groups", which witness to the irresolution in the instinctive motivations of behaviour.
(5) Smith and his cronies were kept in power by a combination of white redoubt solidarity in southern Africa, deep divisions among Rhodesian-African tribal groups and guerrilla movements, irresolution in London, inertia and insincerity elsewhere - and a small group of white Rhodesian, South African and British army officers, police, security men and sanctions-busters whose cunning knew no bounds.
(6) However, its influence on the development of breast cancer and cervical cancer remains irresolute pending further research.
(7) To be European is to be somehow effeminate, irresolute and, perhaps worst of all, socialist.
(8) Or are we going be profligate again, spend money we don’t have again, borrow forever, mortgage the future of children with the debts we could not pay ourselves, and consign Britain to a future of a high debt, low growth?” Describing Labour as the party of permanent fiscal irresponsibility, he said the charter would bear down on the “irresolution of politicians who lack the discipline to control public spending and deliver growth”.
(9) But these words – reconciliation and resolution – are also lies, for what I found, in the absence of reckoning for these refugees and survivors, was post-conflict irresolution.
(10) And veteran Observer readers, perhaps, may be forgiven for wondering what the Orwell of Homage to Catalonia would have said today as he surveyed such a panoply of irresolution.
(11) Harold Hobson declared that he had "never seen a Hamlet more shot through with the pale agony of irresolution."
(12) (The exhibition captioning and catalogue toy with this tactic extensively, if irresolutely, mythologically annotating every scribble and grunt: quite frankly, they're best ignored.)
(13) Many, although not all, of the challenges in communities today are informed by the irresolution of unfinished business.
Nonplussed
Definition:
() of Nonplus
Example Sentences:
(1) He lay on his back with his shoulders on the grass, his colleagues standing around, too nonplussed to yell their praises.
(2) A source close to Clegg said: "Nick is pretty nonplussed to find himself as the only leading member of the coalition government prepared to uphold the human rights commitments made to Hong Kong by two leading Conservatives – John Major and Chris Patten.
(3) But other restaurant owners in the city seemed a little nonplussed about the so-called sugar tax.
(4) And the 45-year-old repeated the trick in May this year, this time lasting 45 minutes alongside a presumably nonplussed Nicolas Anelka in the Shenhua attack against Argentina CN Sports.
(5) Spain’s prime minister, Mariano Rajoy, has insisted that any regional vote would be illegal, but locals are nonplussed by the government’s stubborn stance.
(6) A sk Becky Hope if she ever feels shocked by what she sees in her work in child protection – the welts on backs, broken limbs, the maggots in cots – and she seems nonplussed.
(7) City will feel nonplussed when they review the tape and Pellegrini had to summon all his restraint in the post-match interviews.
(8) His grandmother, when she first heard about his arrest, seemed nonplussed by the whole affair.
(9) He looks slightly nonplussed when the song is mentioned.
(10) But no complaints.” While Mourinho suggested there should have been 20 minutes of stoppage time at the end of the game, Alan Pardew was nonplussed by the six minutes that were added and Mourinho’s ball-boy-related comments.
(11) Other countries landed with big bills, though nowhere on the scale of the British cheque, such as Italy and the Netherlands were also nonplussed and demanding explanations from Brussels.
(12) Well organised protesters have blocked buses, unfurled banners and distributed flyers to tech commuters who have seemed either nonplussed, embarrassed or downright terrified.
(13) Slightly nonplussed when this did not happen, he grabbed his keys and got out, forgetting his mobile phone on the dashboard.
(14) Hagle, a veteran observer of Iowa politics, said locals were nonplussed by outsiders’ responses to Ernst.
(15) With Joel and Avram Glazer, two of United’s owners, present for the training session that was to follow, Mourinho was nonplussed by the episode and the general disappointing nature of the eight-day tour, which ends after the City match.
(16) The Arab spring revolts of 2011 left Washington nonplussed.
(17) "Every time the camera cuts to Marcello Lippi looking nonplussed, the phrase 'First as tragedy, then as farce' pops unbidden into my brain," writes Scott W. "Just me?"
(18) McGregor was probably somewhat nonplussed by all this.
(19) Merkel appeared nonplussed, struggling to reconcile her positions as leader of the Christian Democrats with that of leader of the most important EU country.
(20) Howe sounded almost nonplussed after seeing his side run up a record league win, and inflict a record home defeat on a Birmingham side reduced to 10 men after barely five minutes.