Sentence examples for like unwilling from inspiring English sources

Again, many Iraqis feel like unwilling recipients of a foreign interventionism whose slogan is "we know what is best".

A day or two later, Keats recorded his impressions in a sonnet that invokes death in its very first line: My spirit is too weak — mortality Weighs heavily on me like unwilling sleep, And each imagined pinnacle and steep Of godlike hardship, tells me I must die.

In "On Seeing the Elgin Marbles" (published posthumously), Keats wrote, "My spirit is too weak mortality/Weighs heavily upon me like unwilling sleep,/And each imagin'd pinnacle and steep/Of godlike hardship, tells me I must die/Like a sick Eagle looking at the sky".

And Amy is sullenly posing at their feet much like an unwilling family pet.

Like an unwilling cat flicking lazily at a half-dead mouse, Barcelona are taking Celtic apart with insouciant ease.

The picture is especially vivid because the show focuses on artists who stayed close to home, unable or, like Rembrandt, unwilling to make excursions to France and Italy.

She seemed like someone unwilling to sacrifice her dignity or the interests of her party in an attempt to stave off a likely defeat.

Like an unwilling relative, the sun made the briefest of appearances, the most cursory of shines, no more than it was contractually obliged to.

How very lovely to have you here," feels as though someone has told her to say it to be polite, like an unwilling child ordered to make up after a playground spat.

Some visitors suggested that the sector was in fact caught in a Catch-22, with industry leaders like Richemont unwilling to share the floor with major rivals and yet unhappy about any attempt to circumvent the main venue.

Even the alliance's most ardent fans admit that it has been a failure in Afghanistan, with many key members, like Germany and France, unwilling to pony up the resources needed for extended engagement.