This poem could be read as a comment on society's reluctance to accept the integration of different races.

I then commented on her reluctance to speak to her teacher.

"Are you willing to gamble on my reluctance to destroy you?"

The Bush administration has expanded on the Clinton administration's reluctance to delineate critical habitat.

He did not comment on Ibert's reluctance to go topside again.

The Republicans, meanwhile, are bound to base their campaign on the public's natural reluctance to change chief executives in dangerous times.

The terrorists, obviously, were counting on his reluctance to risk the one disaster most dreaded by all oil-platform workers.

Minogue commented on her reluctance to tour the States.

Historians have commented on her reluctance to write about slavery.

Hence his decision to gamble on a trial and his reluctance to accept a deal that might require additional state prison time.