Reluctant to make such a long-term commitment, the boy repeatedly asks her to continue on for the time being and promises to give his answer in the morning.

* The Reluctant Queen by Molly Costain Haycraft presents another fictionalised version of the relationship between Brandon and Mary Tudor.

* Googy: In Scooby-Doo and the Reluctant Werewolf, he received a kiss from her, then later at the monster race, he tried to get another kiss, but was pulled off by Shaggy.

" The story also has an opening scene in which a little girl named Charlotte ( a character from Grahame's The Golden Age ) and a grown-up character find mysterious reptilian footprints in the snow and follow them, eventually finding a man who tells them the story of the Reluctant Dragon ; two abridged versions ( one by Robert D. San Souci and illustrated by John Segal and another abridged and illustrated by Inga Moore ) both omit this scene.

In The Reluctant Admiral, Hiroyuki Agawa gives a quotation from a reply by Admiral Yamamoto to Ogata Taketora on January 9, 1941, which is similar to the famous version: " A military man can scarcely pride himself on having ' smitten a sleeping enemy '; it is more a matter of shame, simply, for the one smitten.

The Reluctant Metropolis: The Politics of Urban Growth in Los Angeles.

* The Reluctant Jester sub-title My Head-on Collision with the 20th Century-Bantam Press-1992-ISBN 0-593-02042-1

More substantial is the later " Novarian series ", of which the core is the Reluctant King trilogy, beginning with The Goblin Tower, de Camp's most accomplished effort in the genre.

Reluctant to return to Cordoba with such unalloyed bad news, the Ummayad wāli, Anbasa ibn Suhaym Al-Kalbi, decided that putting down the rebellion in Asturias on his way home would afford his troops an easy victory and raise their flagging morale.

Due to the general perception of the character by audiences, Scrappy-Doo has not appeared in any Scooby-related spinoffs since the made-for-television movie Scooby-Doo and the Reluctant Werewolf in 1988, with three exceptions:

Nearly all action takes place on a backwater cargo ship, the USS Reluctant that sails, as written in the play, " from apathy to tedium with occasional side trips to monotony and ennui.

It was for this that the man known as " the Real Taoiseach " or " the Reluctant Taoiseach ", with his ever-present pipe and the soft Cork lilt in his voice will be remembered.

Reluctant to commit 2nd Panzer until it was fully assembled, General der Panzertruppe Hans Freiherr von Funck, of XLVII Panzer Korps, was nevertheless persuaded to rush the division's reconnaissance battalion to Caumont with orders to hold the high ground there.

Reluctant to ask his family for support, he bought a block of tenanted flats on mortgage, with the help of a bank overdraft, and used the rents to pay for the rest of his studies.

The Reluctant Juggler, an episode of the 1972 BBC anthology series The Edwardians dealing with the 1907 strike and written by Alan Plater, stars Georgia Brown as Lloyd.

Reluctant to entrust d ' Orsay with any affairs of state, Napoleon III finally offered him the position of director of the Beaux-Arts.

Reluctant to do so, Whitehead was inspired to slash the actual canvas with a knife.

Paulsen voices most of the characters with his original accent which is American, but he used a British accent to voice Strut in The Land Before Time II: The Great Valley Adventure and Brunch in Scooby-Doo and the Reluctant Werewolf while using a Scottish accent to voice Bobble in the Tinker Bell movies.

On November 3, 2010, the Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet published excerpts from a book about the Swedish King Carl XVI Gustaf, Den motvillige monarken (" The Reluctant Monarch "), claiming that he had a year-long love affair with Henemark in the late 1990s.

* Reluctant officials, civic groups pressured to comply with plan by Secret Service / DHS.

Reluctant at first, she responds to the " firm hand " of Madame Anaïs, who names her ' Belle de Jour ', and has sex with the stranger.

Reluctant to acknowledge the O-Sensei's death wish, Shiva expresses her ambivalence both verbally and physically, unnecessarily applying deadly force in battles with O-Sensei's assailants.

Harding composed the music scores for DangerMouse, Count Duckula ( he also sang the main and end titles with Doreen Edwards ), The Reluctant Dragon and The Fool of the World and the Flying Ship for Cosgrove Hall.

Reluctant to testify about sex with 15 year old Jessica, Gary's lawyers insist that he cannot testify because he is gravely ill in the hospital.

" Moore makes a brief ( and quiet ) live-action appearance in the 1941 feature The Reluctant Dragon, along with Kimball and animator Norm Ferguson during one of the studio tour sequences.

The Reluctant Dragon is an 1898 children's story by Kenneth Grahame ( originally published as a chapter in his book Dream Days ), which served as the key element to the 1941 feature film with the same name from Walt Disney Productions.

* A Reluctant Hollywood Hero-1992 LA Times inerview with David Webb Peoples

In the early 1960s Deeley worked for the UK sales arm of MCA Universal for three years, then he returned to producing with Sandy the Reluctant Nudist and One Way Pendulum.

The canoe carries the following passengers: Raven, the traditional trickster of Haida mythology, holding the steering oar ; Mouse Woman, crouched under Raven's tail ; Grizzly Bear, sitting at the bow and staring toward Raven ; Bear Mother, Grizzly's human wife ; their cubs, Good Bear ( ears pointed forward ) and Bad Bear ( ears pointed back ); Beaver, Raven's uncle ; Dogfish Woman ; Eagle ; Frog ; Wolf, claws imbedded in Beaver's back and teeth in Eagle's wing ; a small human paddler in Haida garb known as the Ancient Reluctant Conscript ; and, at the sculpture's focal point, the human Shaman ( or Kilstlaai in Haida ), who wears the Haida cloak and woven spruce root hat and holds a tall staff carved with the Seabear, Raven, and Killer whale.

Reluctant to be associated with the hardcore genre, Sarno began directing explicit films under various pseudonyms.

* The Reluctant Euro-Rushton Versus Europe William Rushton ( Queen Anne Press / Macdonald Futura 1980 )

* The Adventures of Robin Hood – Episode " Friar Tuck " as Sir William of Marmsbury, " Checkmate " as Count De Waldern ( series 1: 1955 ), " A Village Wooing " as Wat Longfellow ( series 2: 1956 ) and " The Reluctant Rebel " as Herbert ( series 4: 1958 ).

* The Reluctant Peer by William Douglas-Home, BBC radio, broadcast 1967

Directed by Dennie Gordon, the film is a remake of the 1958 film, The Reluctant Debutante which had a screenplay by William Douglas-Home, based on his play of the same name.

* 1963 Bill Naughton ’ s Alfie and the return of Sybil Thorndike in William Douglas-Home ’ s The Reluctant Peer.

* The Reluctant Peer by William Douglas-Home ; broadcast on BBC ( 1967 )

Reluctant, as usual, to interpret state legislation -- such interpretation can only be a `` forecast rather than a determination '' -- Mr. Justice Frankfurter led a unanimous Court to vacate the injunction.

Reluctant to infringe upon precedent, he inserted language that sought to limit the decision's reach to railroad carriers: " the agencies of interstate commerce.

Doris Day: Reluctant Star.

* " A Reluctant Queen " by Joan Wolf is a fictionalized re-telling of Esther's story.

He stands midway between Smaug, evil and greedy, and The Reluctant Dragon, comical and timid.

( The Reluctant Jester, Chapter 17.

Four of his books, The Long Banana Skin ( 1975 ), The Door Marked Summer ( 1981 ), Doors to the Mind and The Reluctant Jester ( 1992 ) are autobiographical.

** Walt Disney's live-action animated feature, The Reluctant Dragon, is released.

Neither At Dawn We Slept, the definitive history of the Pearl Harbor attack by Gordon Prange, nor The Reluctant Admiral, the definitive biography of Yamamoto in English by Hiroyuki Agawa, contains the line.

The Reluctant Art: Five Studies in the Growth of Jazz.

He is also a minor character in the romance novel, The Reluctant Viking by Sandra Hill.

The story originated by chance when Delbert Mann and Chayefsky were rehearsing The Reluctant Citizen in the old Abbey Hotel's ballroom, which was also used for Friday night meetings of the Friendship Club.

Reluctant to tie down his army for a siege that could last years, and believing he could not afford the losses of an all-out frontal assault such as he had used at Arles, Charles was content to isolate the few remaining invaders in Narbonne and Septimania.

The book The Reluctant Queen: The Story of Anne of York is by Jean Plaidy.

The Reluctant Admiral: Yamamoto and the Imperial Navy.

She is also the subject of the novels Mary, Queen of France by Jean Plaidy, The Reluctant Queen by Molly Costain Haycraft, Princess of Desire by Maureen Peters, and The Secret Bride: In the Court of Henry VIII by Diane Haeger.

* The Reluctant Taoiseach, 2010 book, David McCullagh.

* The Reluctant Dragon: The Reluctant Dragon, Sir Giles, and the Boy.

In Scooby-Doo Meets the Boo Brothers, Scooby-Doo and the Ghoul School and Scooby-Doo and the Reluctant Werewolf, Scrappy is more toned down, as he is less feisty and a little more cowardly, but still much braver than Scooby and Shaggy.

Nair has also purchased the rights to Mohsin Hamid's 2007 novel The Reluctant Fundamentalist., and the film is set for an early 2013 release.