Example sentences for: unwillingness

How can you use “unwillingness” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • For example, your book starts with the story of Arthur's meeting in 1987 with Al Fishlow at Berkeley, in which Fishlow supposedly said, "We know that increasing returns can't exist"--and Arthur went away in despair over the unwillingness of economists to think the unthinkable.

  • Maybe the fact that all this is going on at once explains this market's complete unwillingness to commit in one direction or another.

  • The disturbing part is that Sheehy uses her theories not just to explain decisions that have proved historically momentous, but to explain them away . In Passages , for instance, Black Panther co-founder Eldridge Cleaver's role in the black nationalist movement is perceived as nothing more than an example of one man's difficulty making a necessary passage: "Taken to the extreme," she writes, "the unwillingness to commit leaves no quarter for expression of the merger self.

  • "This consideration took precedence, apparently, over Clinton's unwillingness to be portrayed as trying to divert American public opinion from the impeachment process," Ben-Ishai wrote.

  • My recent orthopedic difficulties were in no way related to any unwillingness on my part to discuss these or any other matters with attorneys for Paula Jones, Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr, or the media.


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