When Christine Dunham, in the fourth movement, looks away in Benjamin Pierce's embrace, she becomes the reluctant lover.

Cailin McDonald is excellent as Susanne, the reluctant lover in "Right Sensation," and is clearly a talent to watch.

Sometimes she and her mother might be seen, with stern eyes and determined mouths, looking over the letters of the reluctant lover.

I spent most of my life doing parlor tricks for reluctant lovers.

While von Meck's letters constantly articulated her adoration, Tchaikovsky always remained a more reluctant lover, withdrawing whenever he felt the threat of intimacy.

With the finesse of a man courting a reluctant lover, he summoned forth the framework of the wards which locked Anskiere's powers.

The bond created by their mutual imprinting in Heretics has made them somewhat reluctant lovers.

These speakers are not recognizable types from the poetry hiring hall: moist-souled nostalgists, reluctant lovers or wistful depressives.

God, in so many cases, had run a bad second to a reluctant lover or a failed exam.

The music changed and the dance became a burlesque, with the fan portraying a reluctant lover and Kichibei an amorous old courtesan.