Reluctant to act

Usage examples of hesitant.

I was hesitant to beg the Venediger for help, so I had to do something myself to get the aquamanile back, and since everyone kept telling me I was a Guardian, I figured I might as well start acting like one.

He had been meaning to call Conant all morning, but was very hesitant.

Finally, after one last, hesitant glance at the living statue before him, he slid the decarbonization lever into place.

It was muggy and the first hesitant drops of rain were scattering on the sidewalk like little black stars.

We are naturally hesitant to press the French too strongly or to become deeply involved so long as we are not in a position to suggest a solution or until we are prepared to accept the onus of intervention.

With the surrounding sea empty of anything save some floating corpses and several high, triangular fins of piscine morticians come to clean up the carnage, Abdullahloath to be in proximity to the Isle of Sao Tome after sunset, if he could help itwas on the verge of ordering the boats to set to work towing the ship, when, with a first, hesitant flutter, the errant breeze once more blew.

Sweeping off his toque, he halted beside her mount, seeming as hesitant as a young had with his first love.

He was hesitant about voicing it even though everything he had seen since he had arrived had shown him that Andawyr encouraged inquiry.

Jim Peart took a few hesitant steps into the ready room and stopped just inside the door.

Faint phosphene speckles swam through the eddies and peaks, weaving in and out of the thicker ammonia-laden braids, their light ebbing and kindling in hesitant patterns.

One was a short boy with a hesitant, slinking look and a furtive smile.

Dowdy believed that his initial reluctance to run the gauntlet in Nasiriyah after Task Force Tarawa stumbled into the unanticipated battle there had set a tone and that he was unfairly depicted as too hesitant by Kelly regarding an operation in Kut that Mattis himself had never planned.

We spoke in Afrikaans and in the usual tones, mine kindly but authori tative, his hesitant and unsure whether he was to expect demand, rebuke or a request he would be reluctant to stir for.

Jennet says she is oddly hesitant to speak of it, but that she came to Appleton Manor to visit without a qualm the last time her father wanted to measure the chapel.

I understand it, the French officers who oversee the construction are strongly Bonapartist, in others hesitant or downright for the King.