irresolute

Inflation deepened as the Fed’s rate moves remained more dawdling than decisive, and Mr. Burns’s name eventually became synonymous with bad central banking: irresolute and politicized.

But in hindsight some historians say the Shah was too weak, slow and irresolute in repression.

Especially if he believes the West is too irresolute to stop him.

That phrase is a call back to the ancestors and an acknowledgment that you were not raised to be fearful and irresolute.

The “step-back” rebuild represented a slight change from that irresolute thinking.