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  • Finally, I could see his perfect face, staring at me, twisted into a mask of indecision and pain.  (source)
    indecision = inability to make a decision due to uncertainty
  • I was debating whether to stand there or run, and tarried in indecision a moment too long: I turned to flee but Uncle Jack was quicker.  (source)
    indecision = leaving a decision unmade due to uncertainty
  • In a crisis of indecision she cannot speak.  (source)
    indecision = inability to make a decision (due to uncertainty)
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  • Balanced on a high peak of need, agonized by indecision, Ralph cried out: "Oh God, oh God!"  (source)
    indecision = leaving a decision unmade due to uncertainty
  • The floor meant Yes, No, This, That, Up, Down, Day, Night—all the indecisions and opposites that were bad enough in life without having them spelled out for you on the floor.†  (source)
  • Possibly the charge of "fatal indecision of mind" also hurt deeply, because Washington knew it to be true.  (source)
    indecision = inability to make a decision
  • And indeed there will be time For the yellow smoke that slides along the street, Rubbing its back upon the window-panes; There will be time, there will be time To prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet; There will be time to murder and create, And time for all the works and days of hands That lift and drop a question on your plate; Time for you and time for me, And time yet for a hundred indecisions, And for a hundred visions and revisions, Before the taking of a toast and tea.†  (source)
  • The 12TH JUROR'S face is a mask of indecision,  (source)
    indecision = leaving a decision unmade due to uncertainty
  • He remembered those weeks of timid indecision, during which he had looked and longed and despaired of ever having the courage to ask her.  (source)
  • He did not begin, but, in his indecision, met her glance.  (source)
    indecision = inability to make a decision due to uncertainty
  • "I shall stay with Christy," observed Jim; as much as to say that he had the advantage of those simpletons; whereupon Letty put her hand up to her head and looked with jealous indecision from the one to the other.  (source)
  • ...the state of indecision in which she remained as to the extent of what she should communicate;  (source)
    indecision = leaving a decision unmade due to uncertainty
  • Thus are my hopes blasted by cowardice and indecision; I come back ignorant and disappointed.  (source)
    indecision = leaving decisions unmade due to uncertainty
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