reluctance *

He looked back and saw the reluctance on her face.

She called out to him and he turned back with some reluctance.

I felt a strong reluctance to go back to the house, myself.

I asked him, trying to keep reluctance from my voice.

Or maybe he wanted to tell me all along, and the reluctance was just for show.

There is something very human in his reluctance to believe.

That last decision had been one she'd made with some reluctance.

And it was one which he came to only with reluctance.

Then again she thought with great reluctance, maybe it did.

He did not know why, but his reluctance was deep.

John's mother opened the door and let them in with much reluctance.

Though it was very late, he left with great reluctance.

"There has been a kind of reluctance to take them on over the years."

"But what we have been met with is a reluctance to stand up for us."

A woman was beyond him, also coming toward them; he could sense her reluctance.

And so, with some reluctance, they have decided now is the time to do both.

There was a strong reluctance to part with the form I had taken, to return to the world and be, again, a man.

At last, with clear reluctance, he let her go and stood.

And there sure is some reluctance for it to happen.

At long last he did so, and with reluctance spoke.

There was, however, a common reluctance to name a day.

Then he went slowly, with what seemed reluctance, to her door.

There was no reluctance in her performance of the physical act, though.

At last, and with great reluctance, he actually began to turn his mind to what it was that had happened.

Tell me what happened,' she said, and this time there was no reluctance on his part to continue.