hesitancy

“We would love to finish what we started some years ago,” Branson told journalists at a news conference with notable hesitancy.

Also, because it involves reproduction, there is a greater hesitancy by the states to get involved.

I asked Ferris if there was a bias or a hesitancy to recruit Native American kids.

Rattner apologized for his hesitancy and “closed [his] eyes and jumped.”

This was partly, it seems, due to his own desire to finish school and his hesitancy to move out to Palo Alto.

There was a pathetic hesitancy in her manner, the hesitancy of a weak woman who adheres to a purpose only by supreme effort.

Bright obeyed, began with much hesitancy, but found his tongue and made an excellent address.

There can be no hesitancy, with the fair words of the crowd in one scale—and Ida Ross, unknown and unbeloved, in the other.

He realized, and at the same time resented, the tribute he paid Braceway through his hesitancy.

Thus the cautious encyclopædia; but Ibn Khallikan has no such hesitancy.