A prey to a fear that compelled unquestioning obedience, the fellow rose with alacrity.
This woman who picked up strange youths in the street and spent the day with them was obviously accustomed to unquestioning deference from others.
These foolish fears show a great want of confidence in human nature, and falsely assume that moral character depends mainly upon an unquestioning faith in certain dogmas which, in point of fact, have no necessary connection with it.
Whether she was held, just now, in the peaceful, unquestioning mood that precedes a serious strain on mind and body, or whether her old hostess really had had an unusually interesting experience, she did not then or ever decide.
Generations of unquestioning wives behind her, she sternly routed the unbidden doubts, she deliberately put from her thoughts many another disillusion as the days went by.
Now, in their early fifties, they were a power in the town, and they felt for it a genuine affection and pride, a loyalty that was unquestioning and sincere.
This unquestioning acceptance of, and belief in, the moral standards of his own society, give a genuineness and a freshness to his work which are very rare in literature.
Both had the same accomplishment of style, the same unquestioning submission to the dogmas of Christianity, the same width of literary information.
He made no effort to have Peter grow quiet and gentle like John, or Thomas become an enthusiastic, unquestioning believer like Matthew, He sought for each man's personality, and developed that.
The dialogues were written after Petrarch had outgrown his youthful unquestioning exuberance and before he had reached the philosophic calm of his later years.
A similar conviction in Petrarch's mind helps to explain his unquestioning devotion to Cicero and Augustine alike, and his mystical trust in the eternal youth of the hopelessly senile Holy Roman Empire.
The first duty which devolves upon the mother in the training of her child is the establishment of her authority over him--that is, the forming in him the habit of immediate, implicit, and unquestioning obedience to all her commands.
It took a lot of shaking off, the unquestioning awe, the habit of obedience of one's childhood.
The conception which her pure angelic spirit had formed of her relation to her aged and princely husband was that she ought to honour him as her supreme lord, and cling to him with all the unquestioning fidelity of a submissive handmaiden.
The first duty of a slave, as of a soldier, is unquestioning obedience," said he.
Yet we know how hard it is for the heart to repose with unquestioning simplicity on the truth of God, in reference to the perfect remission of sins through the blood of Christ.
To be a thankful, unquestioning recipient of grace glorifies God far more than all we could render unto Him.
Sally Flint, brought thither by the much-enduring overseer, for the sake of domestic peace, seemed to be the only one who did not regard Gad's performance with unquestioning awe.
Old Lady Green looked at her with that unquestioning trust which was the most pathetic accompaniment of her state.
Hunter puts it, by a band of half-naked savages listening to a missionary seated under a palm-tree, and receiving his message with child-like and unquestioning faith.
This, too, has been tried successfully in contravention of the fallacy that unquestioning obedience must be rendered even when it is known that the official's initials have been signed by the office boy.
With us the line is the transportation department, to whose senior representative, in time of trouble, usually the superintendent, every official and employe of whatever department should yield unquestioning obedience.
He submitted to it all with a perfect unquestioning simplicity, never even knowing that he suffered, that he must suffer disintegration from the old life.
Even among believers the spirit of ready sympathy, with the slightest indication of the church's unspoken meaning was gone, and there remained only the too self-conscious effort of unquestioning loyalty.
Since men of culture have ceased to yield unquestioning submission, like dumb sheep, to the church, they have begun to discover that nowhere are so many falsehoods uttered as in pulpits.
The only divinity he knew were the statutes, the only heaven the bureau, and the only safe way of reaching supreme felicity was, in his opinion, to render unquestioningobedience to ministerial rescripts.
No remote glimmer of the wonderful thing Fate had done for him seeped into his consciousness, but there was a new, warm glow in his heart--the warmth that came from a child's unquestioning faith in his protecting tenderness.
But the attitude of Cromwell toward the King was something more than that of absolute dependence and unquestioning devotion.
The appeal to private judgment as against unquestioning belief was a natural result of the revival of learning as well as of spiritual quickening.
No shadow of doubt would have fallen upon our unquestioning minds, had we been told that he amused himself during this time by standing upon his head.
In unquestioning faith we bought buttons stained with mildew, and bearing upon them, in raised letters, the number of a regiment.
The men of Karnadama were unquestioning slaves to custom, therefore they covered their smooth heads with ashes, wailed, howled, and prayed during the hours appointed for mourning.
Two more days, lads," said Ned to his dutiful and unquestioning followers.
It was a look of blind acceptance, of unquestioning adoration--and mingled with it was a maddening pity.
There came into the tenderness she had felt for him something of awe for his unquestioning allegiance, a thing that had not wavered under the worst he could believe.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "unquestioning" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
