How To Use Unresisting In A Sentence

  • Somewhere, Blake began hating her, because for some reason, the fact that the person standing next to her had been chosen to go up on stage made her absurdly proud, and she lifted Blake's limp and unresisting hand herself.
  • IV. ii.91 (101,4) [that spirit's possess'd with haste, That wounds the unresisting postern with these strokes] The line is irregular, and the _unresisting postern_ so strange an expression, that want of measure, and want of sense, might justly raise suspicion of an errour, yet none of the later editors seem to have supposed the place faulty, except sir Tho. Notes to Shakespeare — Volume 01: Comedies
  • He didn't say anything more, but when he reached into his breast pocket and brought out his notecase, then took Maya's unresisting hand and pressed several notes of large denomination into it, she stared at him in open-mouthed astonishment. The Serpent's Shadow
  • She reached forward and took the unresisting hands in hers. THE ONLY GAME
  • As for Mariana, unresisting and accommodating as the text confines her to be, she appears to experience this exploitation as ‘voluntary allegiance to disinterested virtue’.
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  • And when she was done, she took his hands unresistingly and pulled him into her irresistible embrace.
  • While all three are unresistingly catchy, one should not get caught up in Björk lyrics because they are more about feeling than meaning.
  • After the disastrous Battle of Long Island on 27 August 1776, British forces seized unresisting New York and held it throughout the war.
  • In particular, antivice reformers argued that the white slave's financial plight kept her ‘in the life’ during the critical transition from innocent dupe to unresisting prostitute.
  • Starting to walk away from the house, I am grateful she threw me out, grabbing me by the waist and pushing my unresisting body out the door.
  • When she was done, she bowed again and accidentally on purpose knocked her butt into the godfather, laughing as he dropped, unresisting, to the mat. Slice Of Cherry
  • The book by Strauss that he selects for critique in the First Meditation is so undemanding a pewside read, so unresisting an object for intelligent scorn, that one wonders why Nietzsche is bothering, and evidently so does he.
  • Just as long as we don't present an unresisting target.
  • Office Pike there's a Dickensian name for a thug cop, isn't it? waddled down the line of unresisting students and carefully sprayed an agonizing, blistering bio-weapon all over them. Doug Molitor: 12 Ways to Tell Occupy Wall St From the Tea Party (Doug's Dozen VIDEO)
  • A Prince George's County police officer pepper-sprayed an unresisting man, hit him with his fists and his metal police baton, threw him down a flight of stairs, then fatally shot him, according to witnesses who testified Thursday at a civil trial against the officer. Witnesses: Cop shot unresisting man
  • Picture to yourself so many devils, all in glossy black feather coats and dark breeches, with waistcoats inclining to blue, pully-hawlying away at the unresisting figure of the follower of Fox, and getting first vexed and then irritated with the pieces of choking soft armour in which, five or six ply thick, his inviting carcass was so provokingly insheathed! Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2
  • The princess seemed to be sleepwalking, for she barely opened her eyes and never once said a word, and was completely unresisting when Eleanor led her to her room and eased her down upon the bed, drawing the blankets up over her.
  • Dect philips phone unentitled twofold bibliotics unresisting to otterhound solemnity, i scaphoid to balfour how to nyctalopia the fearsome error that were one of the pampas executability of his compare. Rational Review
  • Dect philips phone unentitled twofold bibliotics unresisting to otterhound solemnity, i scaphoid to balfour how to nyctalopia the fearsome error that were one of the pampas executability of his compare. Rational Review
  • ‘Please tell me,’ he said softly, taking them gently from her unresisting fingers and looking at them.
  • Now, in the stillness, is heard the long, melancholy note of a bird, complaining above of some wrong or sorrow that man, or her own kind, or the immitigable doom of mortal affairs, has inflicted upon her, the complaining, but unresisting sufferer. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 109, November, 1866
  • The others entered the change-house, leading Edward in unresisting submission; for his landlord whispered him, that to demur to such an overture would be construed into a high misdemeanour against the leges conviviales, or regulations of genial compotation. Waverley
  • As the water gradually heats up, the frog will sink into a tranquil stupor, exactly like one of us in a hot bath, and before long, with a smile on its face, it will unresistingly allow itself to be boiled to death.
  • Somebody sneaks in and chloroforms you, or sprays knock-out gas under your door, and while you are comatose and unresisting, your worldly goods are stripped.
  • I have been informed, since the present edition went to the press, that my trusty and well-beloved cousins, the Edinburgh Reviewers, are preparing a most vehement critique on my poor, gentle, 'unresisting' Byron's Poetical Works, Volume 1
  • In 1964, two killers enter a school for the blind and gun down an unresisting mechanics instructor, Johnny North.
  • She nodded and let him have another swallow of whiskey before she took it from his unresisting fingers and shoved the stopper back into the bottle.
  • It's what you've been groomed for, what you've been set up for, what you've been trained to believe unresistingly for all this time.
  • ‘It is useless,’ Dr. Johnson once remarked, ‘to criticize an unresisting imbecility.’
  • The rabbit was squatting by the cabbages unresisting when I was summoned to fetch him, and soon after I carried him back in the hutch he shut his eyes and died.
  • IV. ii.91 (101,4) [that spirit's possess'd with haste, That wounds the unresisting postern with these strokes] The line is irregular, and the _unresisting postern_ so strange an expression, that want of measure, and want of sense, might justly raise suspicion of an errour, yet none of the later editors seem to have supposed the place faulty, except sir Tho. Notes to Shakespeare — Volume 01: Comedies
  • The representation of Silver as quiet and unresisting, however, suggests McCrumb's ambivalent attitude towards political resistance against an oppressive state.
  • Englishmen would then die unresistingly, and they would go down in history as heroes of nonviolence.
  • She nodded and let him have another swallow of whiskey before she took it from his unresisting fingers and shoved the stopper back into the bottle.
  • In the forest, maybe thirty yards away, maple and oak shed their leaves, unresisting. Dr. Cara Barker: How Are You Keeping Fear Alive? 3 Steps You Can Take to Build Self-Confidence
  • Boyd proudly proclaimed how you need to ‘make yourself’ so the ‘powers that be’ cannot make you weak and unresisting.
  • Apache helicopters pounded them with missiles, while US tanks poured cannon fire on the defeated and unresisting column.
  • They had simply taken Loclon's mind --- lock, stock and barrel --- and dumped it into Joyhinia's unresisting body. TREASON KEEP
  • The feeling carried him, unresisting and unremembering, to the platform in front of all those faces. The Fountainhead
  • Somebody sneaks in and chloroforms you, or sprays knock-out gas under your door, and while you are comatose and unresisting, your worldly goods are stripped.
  • He also took the folder from the other unresisting hand, keeping it under his arm.
  • But in revenge for this the sons of the king, when Parasurama was away, returned to the hermitage and slew the pious and unresisting sage Jamadagni, who called fruitlessly for succour on his valiant son. The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India - Volume IV of IV Kumhar-Yemkala
  • Right ceases to reign, force asserts itself, and Bismarck, ironhanded, invincible, holds sway over a scared, unresisting, one may say a The Arena Volume 4, No. 21, August, 1891
  • Fox News's Megyn Kelly thinks cops pepper-spraying unresisting prisoners isn't so bad, because after all, it's "a food product, essentially. Doug Molitor: 12 Ways to Tell Occupy Wall St From the Tea Party (Doug's Dozen VIDEO)
  • As a babe is without malice negatively, so you must be positively and by actuation, that is, full of love and meekness; as the babe is unresisting, so must you be docile, and so on. The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge
  • She shoved the child into his unresisting arms.
  • He took the other sledge from Damien's unresisting fingers and we raced to the bottom.

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