unsought
Example Sentences
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Someday, Portland’s anonymous vandals may confront in their own lives unsought circumstances that require an agonizing decision.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 13, 2020
No less than Eastwood’s films, “A Beautiful Day” is a work of intimate and tragic politics, of unsought heroism that’s cursed with the very fact of its necessity.
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 21, 2019
But as the story becomes about the city’s need to worship at Bauman’s wheelchair, Gyllenhaal’s sidesteps dignity and saintliness and inhabits the horror of unsought heroism.
From New York Times ● Dec. 7, 2017
“That is an unintended, unsought after byproduct of the movie,” Hunter says.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 23, 2017
“Guarded by sentries and high barriers from unsought contact with all beyond, great gangs of us, healthy, robust men, live and labor in a marvelous artificial world,” he wrote.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
