单词 | unexacting |
例句 | Incompetent, unlettered, unskilled writers sell to unexacting editors. Harry Harrison, a Prolific Writer of Satiric Science Fiction, Dies at 87 2012-08-18T02:52:27Z And the question was—how much or how little furniture would three unexacting people require during six months of a picnicking existence in a gracious climate? The Fortunate Isles Life and Travel in Majorca, Minorca and Iviza 2012-03-21T02:00:34.053Z He had no spirit even for the unexacting routine of his own home. The Honour of the Clintons 2012-01-24T03:00:25.947Z It was always not merely an honour but a delight to be serviceable in any way to a lady so courteous, so unexacting, so full herself of thoughtful kindness. Queen Victoria As I Knew Her 2012-01-22T03:00:23.263Z And he was very unexacting in his devotion, and patient and kind. Imprudence 2011-12-01T03:00:19.303Z Anna inherited the serene, unexacting temper of her father, with much of the loving warmth of her mother. Louisa May Alcott : Her Life, Letters, and Journals 2011-11-20T03:00:14.840Z Yet, of course, the audiences were correspondingly unexacting. Memoirs of an American Prima Donna 2011-11-17T03:00:32.600Z He was agreeably surprised at finding her not at all unwilling to be convinced, and extremely unexacting in her demands for proof. The New Paul and Virginia Positivism on an Island 2011-10-08T02:00:25.133Z But now, to-night, he did not feel as if he could commune with any comfort even with one of these comfortable, unexacting friends. Love and hatred 2011-05-13T02:00:08.103Z It was perhaps curious that she had never troubled herself about his feeling for her, and had gone on taking his unexacting friendship for granted. The Secret of the Reef 2011-04-12T02:00:26.980Z The most perfect, if not the only real, obedience I have ever seen, has been that of strong men to an unexacting, tender mother. Education in The Home, The Kindergarten, and The Primary School 2011-03-27T02:00:15.947Z Hence it was only to short books intended for unexacting purchasers that the process was applied and with two or three exceptions it was used only for illustrated books with a small amount of text. Fine Books 2011-03-08T03:00:40.363Z Even to my unexacting eye the grey horse did not seem to promise flippancy, nor did I at all desire to find that quality in him. Some Experiences of an Irish R.M. 2011-01-16T03:00:24.113Z In William Morris, indeed, one finds a music smooth and unexacting like that of the old story-tellers, but not their energetic pleasure, their rhythmical wills. The Cutting of an Agate I’m the most unexacting of critters but I make it a principle, never to share a man! An Unknown Lover His was one of the unexacting, sweet-tempered natures, which was content to take life as it was; enjoying each good which came, and troubling nothing for sorrows ahead. A Question of Marriage He was unkempt and dirty, even according to the unexacting East Side's standard. Little Aliens Her married life had been tranquilly happy, for she had loved with all the sweet serenity of a cold, unexacting nature. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 92, June, 1865 But if French society is unexacting in the matter of refreshments, it runs to waste in regard to dress. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 89, May, 1875 Candace was too unexacting, and too much accustomed to think of herself as a child to whom no particular attention was due, to realize or resent being treated with this scant courtesy. A Little Country Girl It was easily possible for entire families to subsist the year around on the fruits of land and water plus unexacting manual labor. The Bounty of the Chesapeake Fishing in Colonial Virginia She was born to be a man's comrade, observant, unexacting, level-headed. The Dark Tower The poor are growing poorer, and to "keep in the ring," to live and dress beyond their means as many do, it is necessary to have an unexacting standard of morals. The Eugenic Marriage, Vol. 2 A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies Katherine found not only pleasure, but support, in the younger woman's presence, in her devoted yet unexacting affection, in her practical ability, and in the sight of so graceful a creature going to and fro. The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance After all, what an amenable, unexacting sort of thing a blizzard was! Peak and Prairie From a Colorado Sketch-book A something, before which the pleasant little vanity of being adored, the content of an easy unexacting liking in return, fell like straws in a flame. Agatha's Husband A Novel He had shot his bolt; now his policy must be soothing and unexacting until her fear of him had abated and custom had reconciled her to her new life. In Apple-Blossom Time A Fairy-Tale to Date No one could be unwilling to take care of one so unexacting. Girls and Women And it was part of that praiseworthy discretion which she had agreed with herself to practise—in her character of scrupulously unexacting guest—only to accept invitations, never to issue them. The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance What a chance they are letting slip through their fingers of getting the most unexacting, contented creature in the world to minister to their tiresome wants. A Houseful of Girls Mr. Hilary Vance would have been an ideal, unexacting employer for her; but he was on the point of going to Paris for six months. Happy Pollyooly The Rich Little Poor Girl She was so placid, so gentle, and—with the exception of muddy boots in the drawing-room—so unexacting. The Danvers Jewels, and Sir Charles Danvers Ah, to warm herself at the light of his untroubled, unquestioning, unexacting being, to find herself in him. Franklin Kane A wife to satisfy any man who was unemotional, unexacting, and prepared to give way to her in all things. Princess It appears that the two Huxleys were able to satisfy the probably unexacting demands of the classical examiners, for they began their hospital work in October of the same year. Thomas Henry Huxley; A Sketch Of His Life And Work She could not, indeed, follow him in his higher, finer flights; but she succeeded in keeping on her angel face an expression of sufficient appreciation to satisfy his unexacting mind. Happy Pollyooly The Rich Little Poor Girl But the tendencies of the time were in favour of a decent, unexacting orthodoxy, neither too High, nor too Broad, nor too Low, nor too strict. The English Church in the Eighteenth Century She had Jewel's own directness and simplicity, her appreciation and enjoyment of all beauty, the child's own atmosphere of unexacting love and gratitude. Jewel's Story Book Mrs. Haydon got her the good place, with the pleasant unexacting mistress, and her children, and Lena began to learn some English and soon was very happy and content. Three Lives Stories of The Good Anna, Melanctha and The Gentle Lena But the tenant has to do, not with the absentee divinity, but with his priest—not with the good spirit, but his medium; and this go-between is not always noble, or disinterested, or unexacting. The Land-War In Ireland (1870) A History For The Times Quick as a flash of lightning, the dignified, distinguished, unexacting lover was effaced, and in his place was a man—an animal—a passionate egoist! Max This can not be done through any system of methods, neither are narrow interests or unexacting tasks sufficient to arouse all that the soul has now to give. The Unfolding Life A Study of Development with Reference to Religious Training His hopes and desires, small and unexacting, were still concentrated on the same Liza, on her alone, and on nothing else! Love There was a pleasant, unexacting mistress and her children, and they all liked Lena very well. Three Lives Stories of The Good Anna, Melanctha and The Gentle Lena Our time has its own trial—by no means unexacting let me tell you—but we quietly slip it by: it is much easier to revile the infidel. Principles of Freedom Out of school hours he studied independently, as clever boys under the unexacting rule of the old public schools often did, and read through the whole of the Iliad and Odyssey with a friend. Cowper Yet here was that theatre, and the Doctor's metaphor was still good enough for the unexacting taste of the two Valcour ladies, to whom Anna had quoted it. Kincaid's Battery Hitherto it had been qualified by her conception of all life as a compromise, by her new effort to be unexacting of life. Ann Veronica, a modern love story I am, metaphysically, as unexacting as the people of your generation. The Indian Lily and Other Stories He will not so long correspond with an environment even so unexacting as this. The Spenders A Tale of the Third Generation But, upon the whole, the attitude of the citizens toward the clergy was friendly and unexacting. The Heavenly Twins But the more tranquil, easy and unexacting aspects of sentiment he enjoyed. The Cathedral Such influences, outwardly gentle and unexacting, take deeper hold of the soul than we are at the time aware. Hawthorne and His Circle Conscious of her father's wealth, and that, apart from an unexacting companionship to him, she could do as she pleased, she proposed to make the most of life as she estimated it. The Earth Trembled She was rarely angry; she was unexacting, good-humoured, preferring animals to people, and unconventional in speech and manner. Sisters To-night Julia went to sleep in her arms; she was an unexacting little girl, accustomed to being ignored much of the time, and humoured, over-indulged, and laughed at at long intervals. The Story of Julia Page But Mrs Eames was a kind, patient, unexacting woman, who took all civil words as meaning civility. The Small House at Allington Sally Monroe, innocent, simple, unexacting at twenty-one, really believed Rose to be the sweetly frank and artless person she seemed, but Martie, two years younger, had her times of absolutely detesting Rose. Martie, the Unconquered Her work in the City warehouse was unexacting; she had even a faint impress of rose-petal on each cheek, and her eye was excellently clear. Demos Her last letter to him had had some dignity, and, all things considered, she had always shown herself a devoted, unexacting friend. Our Friend the Charlatan She was his woman, and beside the tumultuous demand for her of all his lusty manhood the quiet, unexacting affection which he bore his wife was as water is to wine. The Lamp of Fate They had supper at a restaurant of Tim's discovery, small, specklessly tidy, and as unexacting of the pocket as the stable. Stories of a Western Town She had the flattery of an extremely uncritical and unexacting admiration. Secret Places of the Heart |
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