Evadna reached up, felt for her hat, and began pulling it straight, and Good Indian, recalled to himself by the action, released her with manifest reluctance.

The old man seemed much agitated and distressed, and testified manifest reluctance to give me entrance, although it was couched in a humble and submissive tone.

He took the part with manifest reluctance; he did not want to be recognized by Ghorbanifar.

She fought him a moment, surrendering the device with manifest reluctance, and Horus hugged her gently.

"Very well, if you will have it," he surrendered with manifest reluctance.

"But not all," Kimber agreed with manifest reluctance.

In addition, this criticism of referees could be extended to their manifest reluctance to referee the line-outs in a fair proportion of the games.

Given the manifest reluctance of the world's big emitters to accept legally binding targets we should expect the emergence in Durban of climate realpolitik of 'wait-and-see'.

"I don't know about that, Captain," Mayhew admitted with manifest reluctance.

Curiously there's been a manifest reluctance on the part of HMG over the years to either (1) tackle the beer tie, or (2) take on supermarkets with regard to loss-leader pricing of alcohol.