unresisting
Example Sentences
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The unknown poet who chose him as a subject describes, in the entire story, exactly one blow struck by the knight the one at the beginning against the unresisting Green Knight—a gimme.
From Slate • Jul. 30, 2021
And Samuel Johnson, its chief tormenter, said that to discuss the play “were to waste criticism upon unresisting imbecility, upon faults too evident for detection, and too gross for aggravation.”
From New York Times • Sep. 2, 2011
Why did so many Jews go unresisting, even unknowing, to the extermination camps?
From Time Magazine Archive
John and Susie return, and after a great deal of discussion the logical procedure suggests itself: Claire and Waldo go away to get Claire's son, Susie leads the unresisting John into the next room.
From Time Magazine Archive
Will leapt over the last obstacle, a fallen tree trunk, and plunged the knife into the unresisting shimmer in the air.
From "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman
