Helena Bonham Carter

J.K. Rowling said Bellatrix's role was going to be significant in the last one, when I showed some reluctance in playing a tiny bit part. Up front, they said, 'You're very significant in the last one.' But significant could mean a lot of things. That could just mean a significant plot point. Doesn't necessarily equal big part.

British Actress

Michelle Alexander

Exposing police lying is difficult largely because it is rare for the police to admit their own lies or to acknowledge the lies of other officers. This reluctance derives partly from the code of silence that governs police practice and from the ways in which the system of mass incarceration is structured to reward dishonesty.

American Writer

Jonathan Haidt

Social conservatives are very focused on strengthening the family, and I think they are right to do so. One of the worst blind spots of the Left has been its reluctance to say that marriage matters for children.

American Psychologist

Ogden Nash

The bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret; we make up our minds every night to leave it early, but we make up our bodies every morning to keep it late.

American Poet

Faith Salie

There's a bit of a reluctance on my part to promote myself as any kind of hero because the things I've had to overcome in my life are not the deepest, darkest things.

American Journalist

John Delaney

The big legislative updates that we need to compete in the 21st century and to raise living standards have been blocked by a reluctance to seek common ground.

American Politician

Alvaro Enrigue

My definition of freedom is still ruled by the reluctance to live a conventional life, from Emilio Salgari's pirates.

American Author

William Lyon Phelps

There is a strange reluctance on the part of most people to admit they enjoy life.

American Educator

Geoff Stults

I think anybody can relate to the reluctance to have to lead sometimes.

American Actor

Steven Van Zandt

I've always had a reluctance to meet my heroes.

American Musician

Reluctance often carries a personal or emotional reason behind the unwillingness.

Emotional Weight

Reluctance can imply a struggle between what someone should do and what they want to do.

Subtle Nuance

In some cultures, expressing reluctance might be a polite way to refuse.

Cultural Sensitivity

Reluctance in physics is specific to magnetic fields and circuits, not general forces.

Technical Context

In physics, reluctance measures how much a material opposes magnetic flux.

Measure of Opposition

The unit for measuring reluctance is Ampere-turns per Weber (At/Wb).

Unit of Reluctance

 Now I've been working on this for a long time. I think now you might actually get tenure by working on consciousness. If so, that's a real step forward. Okay, now why then is this curious reluctance and curious hostility to consciousness? Well, I think it's a combination of two features of our intellectual culture

John Searle: Our shared...

 And my talk today will be mostly about these cognitive traps. This applies to laypeople thinking about their own happiness, and it applies to scholars thinking about happiness, because it turns out we're just as messed up as anybody else is. The first of these traps is a reluctance to admit complexity.

The riddle of experience...

 the decision making of the five million people in his region as they think about whether they should flee that type of vulnerable living situation? So as you can see, this is a frustrating topic for me, and I really try to Why the reluctance to protect and support

Why civilians suffer...

 were pretty hardcore even by today's standards on the morning of their wedding this is the letter she gave him dear gpp there are some things that should be read before we are married things we have talked over before you must know again my reluctance to marry

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 that other is us. Ageism feeds on denial -- our reluctance to acknowledge that we are going to become that older person. It's denial when we try to pass for younger or when we believe in anti-aging products, or when we feel like our bodies are betraying us,

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 don't think there was reluctance I think that there was some delay for logistical reasons reasons that have to do with equipping the guard the chief problem has been with respect to ammunition the troops came but the ammunition didn't

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 So our monsters appear huge and scary, but if you overcome your reluctance and approach them, you soon see that they are no monsters at all, but just fragile beings that are simply overwhelmed by what life throws at them.

A video game that helps...

 Because the real elephant in the room here is fatphobia. Fat activism refuses to indulge this fear. By advocating for self-determination and respect for all of us, we can shift society's reluctance to embrace diversity

Enough with the fear of...

 but politics aside our collective reluctance to search for life beyond our planet begs the question why do you think we're so afraid of what's out there oh my gosh i think we've always been afraid of what's out there

Frank Drake’s Cosmic...

 Probably there's no more urgent need to overcome some of this reluctance to use these technologies than in the case of coral. Coral, as many of you know, are the most diverse and rich ecosystems in the world.