unprotesting

Example Sentences

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When Levine describes, as a crowning outrage, a 1914 Boston Symphony performance of Schönberg's "Five Pieces for Orchestra," it's a tossup whom he views with most impatience: the polite, unprotesting audience; conductor Karl Muck, who programmed the work from a sense of cultural duty; or with Schönberg, for perpetrating such an affront in the first place.

From Salon

What made him a poet was his extraordinary facility with and love for words, but what made him a great poet was the unprotesting willingness with which he yielded to the “curse” of vulnerability to “human unsuccess” on all levels of human existence—vulnerability to the crookedness of the desires, to the infidelities of the heart, to the injustices of the world.

From The New Yorker

Wearing a HTC Vive headset and wielding a pair of pen-shaped 3D manipulators, I sawed off a kneebone and bored holes in the spine of an unprotesting virtual patient.

From The Verge

Too much time is devoted to Elastigirl’s guilt about being apart from her children, while the film lets Mr. Incredible say all kinds of undermining things to his unprotesting wife with no repercussions.

From Slate

Teri Terrific, as she was known among friends, was much maligned in the film industry as a harpy who exploited Ms. Shields and turned her into an unprotesting meal ticket.

From New York Times