irresolution

Example Sentences

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I think with a good story you have a question in the back of your mind and the storyteller knows how to create an irresolution or imbalance that you are waiting to experience.

From Salon • May 29, 2020

‘You cannot exaggerate the intensity of man’s inner irresolution and craving for authority,” Freud told a congress of psychoanalysts in 1910.

From The Guardian • Oct. 12, 2018

The vagueness and irresolution in this episode could be taken as a warning, reminding us that endings can take longer to play out than we might expect — or hope.

From New York Times • May 21, 2017

The movie may, in the end, frustrate your desire for straight-up thrills and clear answers, but its irresolution is masterful — sincere, generous and entirely appropriate to the deeply searching story it has to tell.”

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 16, 2017

He looked then for weakness in her face, for fear or irresolution, and there was none.

From "The Pearl" by John Steinbeck