But he found himself curiously reluctant to send her on her way.

My day life was calling, and I was curiously reluctant to answer.

Folly found herself curiously reluctant to look up, as if by meeting his eye she might give him back the power he held over her.

Two did not respond to her message of inquiry; the third seemed curiously reluctant to bid on the job.

For a woman who had been anxious to get off the horse, she seemed curiously reluctant.

She felt curiously reluctant to part from him.

The press has been curiously reluctant to report my constant public support for the president's strategy in Iraq and his policies to fight terrorism.

People were starting to bunch up in the airlock behind him; all of them curiously reluctant to push past.

He was very tired and curiously reluctant for any more fighting.

He was curiously reluctant to take up this hope she offered.