“It was evident that he laboured under some irresolution that he could not master.”

“Thus, they would criticise the Queen's feminine irresolution, female fickleness and womanly compassion towards papists and traitors.”

“In this vacuum of uncertainty and irresolution, business and investment decisions have been delayed, put on ice or cancelled altogether.”

“What inflames the Arab street is not American strength but the perception of American irresoluteness.”

“Many think that voting out an incumbent president in wartime shows national irresoluteness, even cowardice.”

“I may often get impatient with Twombly's showoffy irresoluteness and fustian poetic conceits, but if I try to imagine art of our time without his exceedingly human presence in it, I feel a global chill.”