The trait of being unwilling

Usage examples of unwillingness.

Whoever faced a Roman gladiator under the critical gaze of a crowd that knew all the points of fighting and could instantly detect, and did instantly resent pretense, fraud, trickery, the poor condition of one combatant or the unwillingness of one man to have at another in deadly earnest, had to be not only in the pink of bodily condition but a fighter such as no drunken sensualist could ever hope to be.

All the stultification of the stand-pat mind may be described as inability, and perhaps unwillingness, to nourish a fruitful choice of issues.

And it was resolved among the most considerable of the country gentlemen to make some earnest and well-combined effort, during the recess, to induce Lord George Bentinck to waive the unwillingness he had so often expressed of becoming their avowed and responsible leader.

England, with its mountains and lakes, was so much like their own birthland in distant Norway, that they showed great unwillingness to leave it.

The offender, a Cingalese, had as long and unsavoury a record of loathsome cult activities as the Hawaiian had possessed, and displayed a kindred unwillingness to talk to the police.

She wished much to enquire when Count Morano was expected at the castle, but an unwillingness to ask unnecessary questions, and to mention family concerns to a servant, withheld her.

He liked Captain Murroy himself slightly more than he feared him, or at least he liked the mans brutal evenhandedness, his unwillingness to complain, his occasional flashes of sour humor.

Even the German critics of to-day seem dense in their unwillingness to credit Mozart with a purely amiable purpose in quoting the operas of his rivals, Martin and Sarti.

Aziz, despite his unwillingness, had outdone himself in the gift wrappings.

So the only part of your wish that could be thought honourable proves to be the base and ungrateful feeling of unwillingness to lie under an obligation: for what you wish for is, not that you may have an opportunity of repaying his kindness, but that he may be forced to beg you to do him a kindness.

There was not a servant in or about the house but was so good that they would all most gladly have come to me at any hour of the day or night without the least fear or unwillingness, but I thought it best to choose one worthy woman who was never to see Ada and whom I could trust to come and go with all precaution.

An Unwillingness to take such things into Examination, is on of these Errours of Learning in these times observed by the judicious Verulam.

Segregated and trained for the Games from their tenth birthday almost all of the Gamesmen are completely lacking intelligence, it has been drilled and tortured out of them but in a very few there seems to be a kind of awareness seen only as an unwillingness to join the tightly-packed circle.

He explained his feelings about the other Lanthanides, and his own unwillingness to become like any of them in succeeding decades.

Security Council resolutions and its unwillingness to abide by its own agreements, the administration again began building up its forces in the region.