without demur

Still, to be fair, she does lunge without demur into the action, toting an automatic rifle sufficiently massive to foil a bank job.

But even that premise is not one we should accept without demur.

If Mr. Barnes had called his hero, say, Ivan Ivanovich Ivanov and let the reader divine the resemblance to Shostakovich, I would accept his work without demur.

The plot is just preposterous: Jennifer, the talentless showgirl, falls in love with Tony Polar without noticing that he has a mental age of 12, which she discovers via his malicious half-sister, and without demur aborts the foetus that five minutes before she had invested with all her hopes for future intimacy.

Sasha accepted the domestic role that Bellow insisted on without demur.