A grave and overruling necessity obliged them to take the step they took, and took with infinite reluctance, as under that most rigorous of all laws.

The new member, Pity, somehow giving the impression of infinite reluctance even as she leaped past her teammates to cut off a pair of clerical workers who'd attempted to dart for the fire exit.

Slowly at last, and with infinite reluctance, I went.

There is, however, a great moral difference between seeding organisms into space merely to conduct a blind and futile experiment, and doing so with infinite reluctance in order to prevent invasion from another world.

Then, with infinite reluctance, she turned and walked slowly to the door.

Yet I hope that the reasons, now in my power to allege, will persuade you to withdraw a request which I cannot obey without infinite reluctance.

Then, with infinite reluctance, she cut the link.

With infinite reluctance, she throttled the engine back down to one-sixteenth power, and grimaced as the freighter promptly set back to work losing speed and altitude.

I reached out with infinite reluctance and laid my fingers against her forehead.

"Why, so I must," she said with infinite reluctance, and turned to Friar Ignatius.