unresisting
Britishadjective
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
By most measures Carter is now fighting a good battle against the forces that can drive an unresisting President into a cocoon.
From Time Magazine Archive
Senator and Representative has spent his weekends in ear-ringing silence, imposing, with the mere motion of a paintbrush, his will upon unresisting canvas.
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
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