Sentence examples for unresisting from inspiring English sources

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unresisting

adjective

Not resisting; compliant.

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This time Mr Deng in his desperation has ordered the so-called People's Liberation Army to turn their weapons on the people, using the troops at his command to mow down unarmed and often unresisting civilians.Not only is the army, or the parts of it loyal to Mr Deng and Mr Yang, being asked to do a different job.

Each of these aspects brings out contrary kinds of matter, with contrary tactile sensations: unresisting, hard, squeezy.

Why not swagger, after the way he'd humiliated my unresisting father?

Joyous fans galloped in the ungainly manner of fanatics across the field and seized an unresisting Iraqi player, kissing him on the cheek.

"Cymbeline," whose plot was memorably characterized by Dr. Johnson as "unresisting imbecility" marked by "the impossibility of the events in any system of life," caps its absurdities with the rhyming apparition of the hero's dead parents and brothers, and the descent of Jupiter "in thunder and lightning, sitting upon an eagle".

These touches were sometimes humorous and sometimes disturbing, as when a white male dancer laid unresisting black male dancers on the floor, arranging their arms behind them as if cuffed.

These people tend instead to be responsive (to the music, to the situation, to one another), and they are often passive, caught up unresisting in phrases that tug them this way and that across the stage.

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".

For "Rhythm 0" a year later she placed 72 objects -- including a candle, a rose, a scalpel, some pins and a gun -- on a table and invited audience members to apply them to her body in whatever way they wanted as she stood, unresisting, for six hours.

Punter Steve Weatherford apologized Monday for posting a video that showed defensive end Jason Pierre-Paul carrying an unresisting Amukamara down a corridor before tossing him headfirst into an ice tub, in a prank or an incident of hazing.

And you can still glimpse Dieguito, walled up in his new carapace, pining, suffering - but unresisting.

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