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 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

The irresolution that haunts the Crimmins case has made it reliable fodder for TV movies and books, most famously the 1975 novel that launched Mary Higgins Clark’s career, “Where Are the Children?”

From Washington Post • Jan. 15, 2017

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

From "The Pearl" by John Steinbeck