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  • She walked a good few minutes, struggling with indecision.†   (source)
  • I clung stiffly to my axes, unmoving, racked by terror and indecision.†   (source)
  • Then he turns back, a look of indecision on his face.†   (source)
  • The boy lay in a crumpled heap, barely moving, but Thomas was frozen by indecision, afraid to get involved.†   (source)
  • Mr. Dandy looked around, his forehead a slash, his body a mass of indecision and rage.†   (source)
  • I have no idea what to make of your indecision in stage one, but—†   (source)
  • He had a moment's indecision, but there was nothing they could do for Ron at the moment, and by the sound of it, Black was in trouble — Harry set off at a run, Hermione right behind him.†   (source)
  • Reynie stopped and stared at the metal chair and the blue helmet, racked with indecision.†   (source)
  • Off to put an end to some other student's battle with indecision.†   (source)
  • As in other moments of indecision, the Christ Child directed us; he pointed down the center aisle, in the direction his parents had taken.†   (source)
  • He paced the platforms for half an hour in a turmoil of indecision.†   (source)
  • It was an opportunity I'd already wasted; a split-second of gutless indecision that might've cost the ymbrynes their lives.†   (source)
  • After a moment of indecision, I got up and followed them, moving carefully from tree to tree.†   (source)
  • Indignation, rage, indecision, agitation and much more crossed his face in rapid succession.†   (source)
  • …them, all different colors and sizes, all painkillers according to Boris, but though sometimes they knocked my dad out cold I'd also heard him complaining how sometimes they kept him awake at night, so—after lying paralyzed with discomfort and indecision for a n hour or more, seasick and tossing, staring at the spokes of car lights wheeling across the ceiling—I snapped on the light again and scrabbled around in the nightstand drawer for the bag and selected two different colored pills,…†   (source)
  • His indecision became feverish.†   (source)
  • And for once, there was indecision scrawled across his pale features.†   (source)
  • I took a seat and then, after a brief period of indecision, slipped my arm around her.†   (source)
  • 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)
  • A flicker of indecision ran through him, and he almost dropped it, but something stayed his hand.†   (source)
  • For many tedious seconds I sat on the edge of my cot, swallowing indecision and tears.†   (source)
  • While other FORCE commanders were all but ceasing to function, frozen into indecision by this violation of the New Bushido, Kassad-in command of his regiment and in temporary command of his division after the nuking of Command Group Delta-was trading men for time and calling for the release of fusion weapons to spearhead his own counterattack.†   (source)
  • Finally, I could see his perfect face, staring at me, twisted into a mask of indecision and pain.†   (source)
  • All night, they went back and forth, and, as dawn neared, they had yet to reach a decision—which was perhaps what the div wanted, as their indecision would allow it to take five children instead of one.†   (source)
  • His tear-soaked eyes shone with desperation, indecision, anguish.†   (source)
  • For all the hard work on his and Sir David's part, however, this proved too harsh a deadline; but then with Mr George's conference ending yet again in indecision, his lordship set his sights on a further great conference scheduled to take place in Switzerland the following year.†   (source)
  • We know your indecision.†   (source)
  • She remembered him back at Luke's, calling her my girlfriend with no measure of doubt or indecision.†   (source)
  • They frowned at Paul in obvious indecision.†   (source)
  • The Ushers returned to Connecticut with hope, indecision, and anxiety.†   (source)
  • All day, the yeses and noes had been swirling inside her, faster, faster, until she felt dizzy with indecision.†   (source)
  • To be left alone on the tightrope of youthful unknowing is to experience the excruciating beauty of full freedom and the threat of eternal indecision.†   (source)
  • After a moment's indecision he says, "I know this is none of my business, but is something wrong?†   (source)
  • But had Dr. Jones been permitted to discourse on the cause of his indecision, he would have testified: "Perry Smith shows definite signs of severe mental illness.†   (source)
  • After a few moments of indecision, Moody must have realized that Aga Hakim was right, that this would help acclimate me to life in Tehran.†   (source)
  • "I've spent years now, it seems to me, thinking that one fine day I'd wake up and all my torment would be over, and all my indecision would end—and that no man, no boy, no male—would ever have power over me again."†   (source)
  • Then at last, the Freak Tent, the great melancholy mothering reptile bird, after a moment of indecision, sucked in a Niagara of blizzard air, broke loose three hundred hempen snakes, crackrattled its black sidepoles so they fell like teeth from a cyclopean jaw, slammed the air with acres of moldered wing as if trying to kite away but, earth-tethered, must succumb to plain and most simple gravity, must be crushed by its own locked bulk.†   (source)
  • I was in a state of indecision when I reached Dr. Kerr's office the next morning.†   (source)
  • After a few moments of indecision, I lay a hand on her shoulder.†   (source)
  • Numbly, I stand, shutting out the searching looks of my classmates, the glee on Marcus's face, the indecision on Zak's.†   (source)
  • I could see the indecision in her face.†   (source)
  • He thought of speaking to Mauricio Babilonia, thinking that his authority as his former boss would make him desist from his plans, but Petra Cotes convinced him that it was a woman's business, so he was left floating in a limbo of indecision, barely sustained by the hope that the confinement would put an end to his daughter's troubles.†   (source)
  • He sat where he was, on Mouse, in the grip of terrible indecision.†   (source)
  • All the indecision suddenly vanishes into clear, defined moments—changing the linens, choosing a dress or a hymn, the washing up, the muttering of prayers.†   (source)
  • All this indecision about what to get for Hagar was new.†   (source)
  • And the man's face was twisted with indecision and the rage of everything ever taken for granted betrayed.†   (source)
  • God, I hate indecision.†   (source)
  • I could see indecision in her eyes as Neferet smoothly disentangled herself from my arms.†   (source)
  • The family—or what's left of it—intends to stick together one way or another, and after days and nights of discussion, chasing this elusive hope or that, worrying, figuring, going bats with indecision, with one door after another closing, then opening again—we finally realize the only thing to do is give in and stay together wherever we go, and moving to Slocan is the easiest.†   (source)
  • If she remembered that, before the fire, she had wept real tears in my arms, it made no change in her; she was, as always in the past, a person of little indecision, a person for whom habitual quiet did not mean anxiety or regret.†   (source)
  • The chaplain was tongue-tied with indecision for a moment.†   (source)
  • For a few moments I'm frozen with indecision.†   (source)
  • I felt her indecision.†   (source)
  • It would be used as evidence to establish Seth Hubbard's testamentary capacity, and for a moment Jake was paralyzed with indecision.†   (source)
  • Ryan hesitated one moment, torn by indecision.†   (source)
  • I looked from face to face, overcome with indecision.†   (source)
  • His commander's indecision over whether to abandon New York and again at Fort Washington had left Reed badly shaken.†   (source)
  • He looked around in the near-total darkness feeling the panic of indecision, his anxiety growing as his eyes swept the area.†   (source)
  • Over the years he had noticed that if he stopped giving instructions or gave Niedermann too much latitude to make his own decisions, he would slip into an indolent state of indecision.†   (source)
  • Being found by the monster as I stand frozen in indecision is the stupidest way to die that I can think of.†   (source)
  • IYALOJA It is the death of war that kills the valiant, Death of water is how the swimmer goes It is the death of markets that kills the trader And death of indecision takes the idle away The trade of the cutlass blunts its edge And the beautiful die the death of beauty.†   (source)
  • He recalled the boy's twitching panic, his confused indecision when Max had greeted him.†   (source)
  • Reason for F.N.'s long delay and apparent indecision arose from method of sneak attack.†   (source)
  • And you, after a period of prolonged indecision, decided to join them.†   (source)
  • After a minute of complete indecision he backed away a few yards and sat down.†   (source)
  • Barbara couldn't take the indecision of our relationship any longer.†   (source)
  • On the ramp the SS men—the officers, the learned physicians, the guards—seemed to be milling about in an anxious sweat of indecision.†   (source)
  • After a glower of indecision, she holds the empty plate out for more.†   (source)
  • She nodded, faint with indecision.†   (source)
  • "I consider such indecision presumptuous," said Brahma, "when one has just been made such an offer."†   (source)
  • Now I heard movement, and after a long moment of indecision, I risked the chance of turning my head to one side so I could look downhill.†   (source)
  • Neither escape, delay or indecision was possible.†   (source)
  • Neatly avoiding the table where the bag of coffee stood, she began to walk nervously about the room, as if a teasing indecision, an untouched mystery, led her by the hand.†   (source)
  • Jem's face showed brief indecision on the ethics of withholding his own dime, but his innate courtesy won and he shifted his dime to his pocket.   (source)
    indecision = uncertainty resulting in not making a decision
  • Burris seemed to be afraid of a child half his height, and Miss Caroline took advantage of his indecision: "Burris, go home."   (source)
    indecision = slowness in making a decision
  • He did not begin, but, in his indecision, met her glance.   (source)
    indecision = inability to make a decision due to uncertainty
  • "I don't know…… " "Not indecision," Edward growled.†   (source)
  • In his moment of indecision, Zoe sprinted past us up the mountain, and we followed.†   (source)
  • Then his eyes fastened on the revolver and he froze, immobilized by indecision.†   (source)
  • After a moment's indecision he stepped inside.†   (source)
  • But she was too shaken by the night's events and the long week of indecision to contradict him.†   (source)
  • "Causing indecision," the woman corrected.†   (source)
  • There was no sign of compromise, no hint of indecision in them.†   (source)
  • Contempt for his indecision rose, and a harsh smile danced on his lips.†   (source)
  • It was too dark to see his face, but his voice was wild with worry, indecision, and frustration.†   (source)
  • Khonsu seemed to be enjoying our indecision.†   (source)
  • After all those years of indecision, I simply acted on a whim.†   (source)
  • A sudden moment of indecision hit him, causing a burst of panic.†   (source)
  • Indecision will kill us just as surely as a sword or an arrow.†   (source)
  • And my stupidity, my indecision, my panic, caused you to lose yours.†   (source)
  • He stared at me, indecision clear on his face.†   (source)
  • She stood frozen with indecision for a moment, listening to the screaming of the sirens.†   (source)
  • But your indecision would have guaranteed our collapse.†   (source)
  • Conklin sighed, his indecision apparent.†   (source)
  • For a moment Thomas was frozen by indecision.†   (source)
  • Tefu would be in an agony of indecision.†   (source)
  • Berger had displayed a frustrating indecision.†   (source)
  • There was no trace of indecision in his face.†   (source)
  • Rod watched them, his face contorted in an agony of indecision.†   (source)
  • Even indecision is an act, after all: a choice not to act in either of two alternative directions.†   (source)
  • Indecision.†   (source)
  • Back at the apartment, Maman had made a protracted show of indecision over what to wear, settling in the end for a pastel blue dress with a close-fitting waist, evening gloves, and sharp-pointed stiletto shoes.†   (source)
  • I can understand Bep's wanting to put an end to her indecision; four weeks ago she decided to write him off, but then she felt even worse.†   (source)
  • It is a recollection of standing alone in the back corridor before the closed door of Miss Kenton's parlour; I was not actually facing the door, but standing with my person half turned towards it, transfixed by indecision as to whether or not I should knock; for at that moment, as I recall, I had been struck by the conviction that behind that very door, just a few yards from me, Miss Kenton was in fact crying.†   (source)
  • It's as if someone's changing their mind, moving from one course of action to another so quickly that I can't get a good view…… " "Indecision?"†   (source)
  • When his face turned toward mine with the slow movement of his indecision, I twisted quickly in his arms till my lips reached his.†   (source)
  • He was immobilized with indecision.†   (source)
  • Brief though it was, their indecision was all Roran needed to cross the distance between them before the soldiers could draw their weapons.†   (source)
  • The others just watched her go, stunned by the terrible news; stunned, too, by any sign of weakness or indecision from Emma.†   (source)
  • There wasn't time for indecision.†   (source)
  • "During these times of indecision when all the old answers are proven false, the people look back to the dead to give them a clue," he went on.†   (source)
  • Possibly the charge of "fatal indecision of mind" also hurt deeply, because Washington knew it to be true.†   (source)
  • Frozen in indecision, I watch him roll his empty cart out through a set of double doors across the room.†   (source)
  • She stepped forward, hesitated, then with a long, anguished cry, tore at her hair in a frenzy of indecision.†   (source)
  • Her hands moved along his back, up and down, sometimes seeming to wish to bring him closer, sometimes being tempted to push him away, moved in a terrible, a beautiful indecision, and caused him, brokenly, deep in his throat, to moan.†   (source)
  • He heads toward the gates, and after a dreadful few moments of indecision, I turn away from Veturius and follow him.†   (source)
  • Jason Bourne turned and breathed heavily against the glass window for several moments-and then through the mists of indecision the Chameleon's strategy became clear.†   (source)
  • I turned from side to side in indecision, looking at the pieces of broken head, the small coins of all denominations that were scattered about.†   (source)
  • She sees my indecision.†   (source)
  • Accident may put a decisive blunder in the right, but eternal defeat and miscarriage must attend the men of the best parts if cursed with indecision.†   (source)
  • She trailed off in indecision.†   (source)
  • I received your most obliging, flattering letter—lament with you that fatal indecision of mind which in war is a much greater disqualification than stupidity or even want of personal courage.†   (source)
  • And, released (by the action) from my indecision, I threw everything I had into organizing the funeral, though moving in a kind of numb suspension.†   (source)
  • Against the testimony of the three robbers, and her own testimony, and, under oath, the storekeeper's indecision, there was no evidence on which to convict him.†   (source)
  • Now the protuberant glass eyeballs of the deer, artfully detailed even to its minute bloodshot flecks, gave back twin images of herself; frail, wasted, her face bisected by cadaverous planes, she gazed deeply at her duplicate self, contemplating how, in her exhaustion and in the tension and indecision of the moment, she could possibly hold on to her sanity.†   (source)
  • Armstrong, after a moment of indecision, turned towards the latter.†   (source)
  • Bigger's body was stiff with dread and indecision.†   (source)
  • She reduced them to a frenzy of indecision by this interference in their cosmogony.†   (source)
  • Bigger saw a look of indecision and wonder come into the old man's eyes.†   (source)
  • When he was feeling healthy he did not grieve much, because he knew the dilemma was inevitable—but in weak moments he was persecuted by shame and indecision.†   (source)
  • Someone who was never anxious, never tortured by doubt and indecision, someone who never stood as I did, hopeful, eager, frightened, tearing at bitten nails, uncertain which way to go, what star to follow.†   (source)
  • I felt free and clean, as when you suddenly see that, after being paralyzed by ignorance or indecision, you can act.†   (source)
  • There was a moment of indecision on my part, then I took the two loose strings and carried them around her body and brought them again to her back and tied them in a clumsy knot.†   (source)
  • Poirot and I, obeying an urgent summons, had arrived to find the little man writhing in an agony of indecision.†   (source)
  • Then dressed, with indecision looks out of the window to the house of Mrs. Lithebe, and shakes his head.†   (source)
  • Were he already among the immortals—were he already there at the goal to which his difficult path seems to be taking him, with what amazement he would look back to all this coming and going, all this indecision and wild zig-zag trail.†   (source)
  • Luter opened his coat and with an expression of anxious indecision on his face regarded David's mother.†   (source)
  • "They're done for," said Bernard and, urged by a sudden impulse, ran forward to help them; then thought better of it and halted; then, ashamed, stepped forward again; then again thought better of it, and was standing in an agony of humiliated indecision–thinking that they might be killed if he didn't help them, and that he might be killed if he did–when (Ford be praised!), goggle-eyed and swine-snouted in their gas-masks, in ran the police.†   (source)
  • "I reckon I ought to tell you," he said, and indecision appeared to concern him.†   (source)
  • And this indecision seemed to bleed him of his energy.†   (source)
  • Tuesday came, and with it appropriate indecision and speculation.†   (source)
  • "Oh, no," she answered, with a tone of indecision.†   (source)
  • Her seeming indecision was, in fact, more than indecision: it was misgiving.†   (source)
  • For forty-eight hours Hayward lived in an agony of indecision.†   (source)
  • But I had not even a moment's indecision.†   (source)
  • This was the last drachm required to turn the scale of her indecision.†   (source)
  • And when she did act, no one could accuse her of indecision then.†   (source)
  • I walked on without hope but without indecision, like a man who has made up his mind.†   (source)
  • There came a moment when he appeared to lose himself, and he paused in indecision.†   (source)
  • That instant of indecision on the part of Cap secured the triumph of Jasper.†   (source)
  • Everything held in confusion and indecision until then!†   (source)
  • The officer stood perplexed and his face showed indecision.†   (source)
  • A very few moments, however, removed his indecision.†   (source)
  • This train of indecision must surely be worked out now or never.†   (source)
  • Moreover, the six hundred thousand francs had settled the elderly spinster's indecision.†   (source)
  • Alas! he walked with no less indecision than Cosette.†   (source)
  • Gavroche could think of no reply to this, and stood there in indecision, scratching his ear sadly.†   (source)
  • This indecision only lasted a few seconds.†   (source)
  • Such was this ancient Paris, delivered over to quarrels, to indecision, and to gropings.†   (source)
  • Only the prince stopped behind for a moment, as though in indecision; and Evgenie Pavlovitch lingered too, for he had not collected his scattered wits.†   (source)
  • It was but a little while before a certain indecision in his manner revealed another fearful fact to Becky—he could not find his way back!†   (source)
  • Though much under Hayward's influence, he would not grant that indecision pointed to a charming sensitiveness; and he resented the shadow of a sneer with which Hayward looked upon his straight ways.†   (source)
  • From whatever point Duane viewed the man's strange indecision he could come to only one conclusion—his start, his check, his fear had been that of recognition.†   (source)
  • He had never in his life made a mistake, never had an accident, never a mishap, never a check in his steady rise, and he seemed to be one of those lucky fellows who know nothing of indecision, much less of self-mistrust.†   (source)
  • I could have thought him the old Wolf Larsen, and yet there was in his movements a vague suggestion of weakness and indecision.†   (source)
  • But his indecision was brief.†   (source)
  • The practical person, who knows what he wants at once, and generally knows nothing else, will accuse her of indecision.†   (source)
  • The party had dispersed with the loitering indecision characteristic of social movements at Monte Carlo, where the whole place, and the long gilded hours of the day, seem to offer an infinity of ways of being idle.†   (source)
  • The men wavered in indecision for a moment, and then with a long, wailful cry the dilapidated regiment surged forward and began its new journey.†   (source)
  • As he came near Corless's his former agitation began to overmaster him and he halted before the door in indecision.†   (source)
  • He tried to get witnesses; Westlake spread lies; his friends doubted him; his self-confidence was so broken that it was horrible to see the indecision of the decisive man; he was convicted, handcuffed, taken on a train—— She ran to his room.†   (source)
  • It seemed he would fly to pieces, so terrible was the control he was exerting, holding together by an unwonted indecision the counterforces that struggled within him for mastery.†   (source)
  • 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)
  • They exchanged looks of troubled indecision, yet feeling that decide they must and without long delay.†   (source)
  • One fact stood out certain and clear, and that was that poor Aglaya must be in a state of great distress and indecision and mental torment ("from jealousy," the prince whispered to himself).†   (source)
  • Old Tunku Allang, almost out of his mind with fear and indecision, either kept a sullen silence or abused them violently for daring to come with empty hands: they departed very much frightened; only old Doramin kept his countrymen together and pursued his tactics inflexibly.†   (source)
  • But there was that in him deeper than all the law he had learned, than the customs that had moulded him, than his love for the master, than the very will to live of himself; and when, in the moment of his indecision, Collie nipped him and scampered off, he turned and followed after.†   (source)
  • XVIII Angel Clare rises out of the past not altogether as a distinct figure, but as an appreciative voice, a long regard of fixed, abstracted eyes, and a mobility of mouth somewhat too small and delicately lined for a man's, though with an unexpectedly firm close of the lower lip now and then; enough to do away with any inference of indecision.†   (source)
  • He started for the companion-way, and stepped forward quite as I had been accustomed to see him do; and yet again, in his very walk, there seemed that suggestion of weakness and indecision.†   (source)
  • The position of uncertainty, of indecision, was still the same as at home—worse, in fact, since it was impossible to take any step, impossible to see Vronsky, and she had to remain here among outsiders, in company so uncongenial to her present mood.†   (source)
  • This something was enveloped in a cloak, and d'Artagnan at first believed it was a man; but by the smallness of the form, the hesitation of the walk, and the indecision of the step, he soon discovered that it was a woman.†   (source)
  • Vexed as Peter had been by my indecision, he was true to his generous nature, and said at once that he would do his best to help me, trusting I should show myself a stronger woman this time.†   (source)
  • The answer was so long in coming, though there was no indecision in it, that Tom went and leaned on the back of her chair, to contemplate the fire which so engrossed her, from her point of view, and see what he could make of it.†   (source)
  • Sir Walter would quit Kellynch Hall; and after a very few days more of doubt and indecision, the great question of whither he should go was settled, and the first outline of this important change made out.†   (source)
  • From his face and gait, doubt and indecision, all hesitating and wavering traits disappeared of themselves.†   (source)
  • She often stopped a moment to look where to place her foot, and tottering on a stone that shook, her arms outspread, her form bent forward with a look of indecision, she would laugh, afraid of falling into the puddles of water.†   (source)
  • With the round top of an inkstand and two broken bits of sealing-wax he is silently and slowly working out whatever train of indecision is in his mind.†   (source)
  • In this indecision he waited, trusting that the call, whether feigned or natural, would be speedily renewed.†   (source)
  • Whether from indecision, or some other motive of hesitation, the champion of the day remained stationary for more than a minute, while the eyes of the silent audience were riveted upon his motions; and then, gradually and gracefully sinking the point of his lance, he deposited the coronet which it supported at the feet of the fair Rowena.†   (source)
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