Magda was oddly reluctant to turn her back even on the makeshift camp.

Fear twisting her heart, she knelt beside him, oddly reluctant to call for help.

They drove to the villa, where Darcy found himself oddly reluctant to get out of the car.

Slowly I set down the sword, oddly reluctant to take my hand from it.

She left the room, oddly reluctant to do so, and continued her exploration.

He was free, yet oddly reluctant to leave the small enclosure of the tent.

Arvardan felt oddly reluctant and yet compelled to end the fiction.

"Perhaps," he said at last, but his voice was oddly reluctant.

His expression became oddly reluctant, and then he sighed.

Cunningham found himself oddly reluctant to touch the cold, dead flesh.