There are hints that the author appreciates this fact, but in referring to a masking effect he is misrepresenting the basis of the dithering principle.
Nader is depicted as a young man disdainful of the ' 'vain ostentation, the pettiness, the laziness and dithering' ' (p. 23) that supposedly characterized the court.
The latter decades of the century, for instance, saw delays and default in payment of wages and artisans became reluctant to work for the state, dithering from reporting when summoned.
We welcome this belated move but cannot help but criticise him for his dithering and inability to react to public opinion.
This is the time when we have to have a decision because the policy for aviation is not a policy of dithering.
Is it not disgraceful to stigmatise the unemployed as uncertain, irresolute, incompetent and, as the advertisements suggest, dithering?
However, today is not the time for criticism of past dithering, disunity and indecision.
This sort of dithering has been an element which has been obvious throughout this whole disease.
