The bids began slowly at first; the auctioneer, Dmitri Smythe, had to coax each bid out of his reluctant suitors.

Albert, not yet in love with Victoria, is a reluctant suitor but agrees to the match.

After 12 years, the association finally had an Administration that agreed with it about the need to improve the nutritional quality of school meals, and suddenly, it became the reluctant suitor.

She has an easy spontaneity that charms her initially reluctant suitor, the handsome John Scherer.

"We were reluctant suitors, not wanting to give up our independence, but recognizing finally we needed each other."

Some of the reluctant suitors know that as well.

But she is a far more reluctant suitor when military aid is concerned.

Moreover, the company, which makes Panasonic, Technics and Quasar brands, is a reluctant suitor.

In Program B, performed tonight, a hapless and reluctant suitor negotiates a field of rolling tubes, and a lost aviator becomes an earthbound balloon.

He is, if anything, a reluctant suitor.