Sentence examples for without volition from inspiring English sources

Richard Feldman (Juilliard): "My hunch and it can only be a hunch is that the persona is a complete creation, complete unto itself and almost without volition.

He worries he may become predatory without volition or warning, or that others will assume he is an abuser if they know his history.

Even the discussion of intersex individuals is taboo in many cultures, and Middlesex examines what it means to leave normality behind and to become, without volition or warning, a living taboo.

I'd been promoting a novel non-stop for four months, advancing through my schedule without volition, feeling more and more like the graphical lozenge on a media player's progress bar.

Yet such self-discipline (the adoption of "filtering strategies", as Palfrey and Gasser put it) doesn't seem to have occurred to Carr: in front of a computer screen, we are for him impotent and without volition, so the only options are to drown in cyberbabble or to "disconnect" completely.

Wind us up, show us a certain image or ideal, and we act - senselessly and without individual volition.

Locke says that an involuntary action is performed "without" a volition.

These drugs, as an essential function of their painkilling mechanism, throttle the autonomic nervous system, those functions that happen without our volition, like breathing and heart rate, and bowel movements.

These historical processes take place without any direct volition on the part of speakers as regards the language itself.

After talking with Winters for several minutes, the woman left of her own volition, without Winters having to arrest her or resort to physical force.

A bar with a pool table and an emphasis on the Johnny Cash songbook, Pork Slope offers outstanding tater tots, a breakfast-sausage-and-melted-cheese sandwich and other food that has a way of moving from the table into your mouth without any conscious volition on your part.