My biggest gripe when it comes to garden centres of all sizes is their seeming reluctance to educate.

To focus on this they speculated on some major disposals- despite Unilever's seeming reluctance:

They take the case despite the seeming reluctance of the girl's uncle, Lionel.

They knock and are invited in, despite the waitress' seeming reluctance and an ominous mention of "new management".

There's concern about the small minority who are criminals, and the seeming reluctance of these people to learn English.

In her case the seeming reluctance to communicate is more easily explained.

Privately I was quite ready to attribute this seeming reluctance to perform to the presence of investigators ourselves.

She was continually distraught at his seeming reluctance to commit to marrying and setting up a home with her while treating her as a "housekeeper".

And in spite of her seeming reluctance, she'd already sold her body to that fat colonel, hoping to save her lover's life.

Local church members also often criticized the church's ethnic Greek hierarchy for its seeming reluctance to back Palestinian statehood.