uncompelled

Example Sentences

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He does not dictate to them but is instead dictated to; our democratic context lays bare the widespread, uncompelled eagerness for aesthetics over results.

From Salon • Jul. 19, 2020

Many a thinker has been supported and inspired through weary years of inquiry and reflection by a mother-idea which has come to him, if not unsought yet uncompelled, in a flash of insight.

From Bergson and His Philosophy by Gunn, John Alexander

Happy she, if she may be permitted to bring them up to maturity, and uncompelled to renew her joys in another nest.

From McGuffey's Fifth Eclectic Reader by McGuffey, William Holmes

That you have assumed it uncompelled and self-elected, that you have exercised it undazzled by the ignis fatuus of genius, is your unfading glory.

From Four Early Pamphlets by Godwin, William

He walks abroad in the majesty of an universal understanding, eyeing the "rich strond," or golden sky above him, and "goes sounding on his way," in eloquent accents, uncompelled and free!

From The Spirit of the Age Contemporary Portraits by Hazlitt, William