The audience resented only the indecision of the bull.
After some moments of indecision he did finally place his arm round her waist.
In all the previous clamour and disturbance there had been an absence of any fixed plan, an indecision which had kept the rebels from any positive action; the eye, the arm, of the leader had been wanting.
When the spirit of rebellion which the duke had bred in his surroundings had thrown away all restraint, it began to react upon himself, spurring him on to deed, and counteracting his natural indecision of character.
Yet there was a term of indecision with us--or rather incubation.
His indecision had been from a difficulty in naming a commander.
The delay this indecision on my part created, caused him to repeat his question, while he fixed his eyes on me with a dark and piercing expression.
The younger Mr Chivery, more distant, did not shake hands with him at all; he stood looking at him in a state of indecision so observable that it even came within the observation of Clennam with his heavy eyes and heavy heart.
He was far from rich, and every day of indecision and inaction made his inheritance a source of greater anxiety to him.
Mr Pancks, after another stiffening of his hair, looked on at the Patriarchal assumption of the broad-brimmed hat, with a momentary appearance of indecision contending with a sense of injury.
At the stair-head those footsteps paused for a little space, as though in indecision whither to turn.
And while you are in this state of indecision yourself, it would be the greatest mistake for you to see her.
There was so much ceremony that the dinner threatened to be very dull, and interminable as well, from the indecision of the guests as to the dishes they should accept.
She had a moment of indecision and surprise --indecision as to the most effective way of presenting herself, and surprise that it should be necessary to decide upon a way.
There was no trace of indecision in Mr. Hearty's voice now.
The consequences of indecision on the part of the Viceroy, of waiting for advice from home in matters requiring urgency, were therefore fraught with dire peril.
But King Joseph, when he should have acted, was seized with an unfortunate spirit of indecision and uncertainty.
This train of indecision must surely be worked out now or never.
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.
Slight tokens these in any one else, but when so practised an eye as Mr. Tulkinghorn's sees indecision for a moment in such a subject, he thoroughly knows its value.
Everything held in confusion andindecision until then!
There is a strangeindecision and timidity which I cannot fathom.
I have ever found the moment of indecision to be the moment of completest anguish.
She hesitated to accept the horse; but the little animal won her regard by his affectionate mannerisms, and at the end of a day of doubt and indecision she accepted him.
Indecision and fear were in the set of his head--bowed a little; and a dread reluctance was in his shifting eyes and the pasty-white color of his face.
Parsons was still laboring with the devils of indecision and doubt.
As if by prearrangement, men drew apart into little knots, each gathering about a leader and showing indecision until each man ascertained exactly where his fellows were going.
They, unblinded by the rage of the pirates, saw the futility of storming that rocky wall with steel, and in the momentary hush and indecision they withdrew from the mob and stood apart, thinking over what was to come.
No greater calamity can befall a people than that of deliberating long on issues imperilling liberty; any impotency of indecision betraying a lapse into slavery from which the gravest deliberative wisdom cannot rescue them.
The fountains must be stirred to their depths and their torrents sent bounding along their sluices, else we sink presently into the pool of inertia, victims of indecision and slaves of fate.
It is impossible that the spirit of the army should not have been affected by the doubt and indecision of their general.
You lose yourself in this prevailing indecision of sound and color.
The period of indecision was at an end, and in 1812, at the age of thirty-one, he matriculated as student of medicine at the University of Berlin, and applied himself with resolution to the study of the natural sciences.
General, an indecisive mind is one of the greatest misfortunes that can befall an army; how often have I lamented it this campaign," and Lee in reply alluded to "that fatal indecision of mind.
If Hildebrand betrayed such indecisionunder this first trial, it may reasonably be expected, from her youth and inexperience, not to mention the greater weakness of her sex, that Inez should be off her guard in an equal degree.
The staff-captain walked twice in indecision past the group of his aristocrats, and the third time he exerted an effort over himself and went up to them.
There was no indecision in the tense, vibrant voice, and the almost effeminately delicate features were strong with a great determination.
He does not understand that soft-hearted indecision is generally characteristic of the masses in the first period of the revolution.
After bringing forward, to our confusion, the declamation concerning bloodshed, Kautsky later on follows Marx and Engels in criticizing the indecision of the Commune.
