What is "disarming"

Usage examples of "disarming".

The streets were deserted--or at least they seemed to be--as Stevie and Adonis made their way down a back alley and, after disarming the security system, entered her home.

But having agreed with Selina that Axford Buildings were situated in a horrid part of the town, and with Mrs Leavening that Gay Street was too steep for elderly persons, he laughed, and disclosed with disarming candour that he knew nothing of either locality.

The rest of my detail is downlevel, disarming and collecting all the explosives they can find.

There are a number of senior keyholders, but only three of us know the disarming code for the alarm at any one time.

In Monique Ellis' The Year Father Christmas Came Catling, a bold burglary at a country inn brings a handsome world-weary Lord to Sarah Forte's doorstep, where he soon finds himself playing Father Christmas to a disarming group of orphans and the enchanting young woman he longs to make his Lady.

And on the first, and so far only occasion, when Karlstrom had encountered Brickman in Cloudlands, he had asked, with disarming casualness, to speak with him in private.

The proposal seemed clearly to be a conciliatory one, a concessionary, disarming one, one offered to ease a tense moment.

Valsavis disposed of his two antagonists with unbelievable speed, executing a circular parry and disarming one man, then, in one motion, pirouetting aside from the second man's lunge and making a sweeping stroke with his sword, cleanly decapitating the marauder.

By the time Rafael's officers had restored some semblance of order, disarming the defeated Ambervale soldiers and cordoning off areas for prisoners, the light had seeped from the sky.

Just before Dad and I got kidnapped, Hrriss and I got Linc Newry to admit he'd been falsifying export documents and disarming Doona's security satellites to let rustlers in and out.

That one was Hornfel, and he argued hard for the sake of the young human whose disarming innocence and genuine goodwill, coupled with the tale of miscast magic, moved him.

He was a pale man with rather attractive white hair, and a very disarming personal manner.

A body of purple-robed soldiers had burst in on them during the night, pinioning them to their beds and quickly disarming them before they had a chance to use their weapons or their powers.

Which the techs, later, after the post-THM Press-Avail and scrum, degearing aboard the ghastly Pimpmobile, say McCain is not (the devil) and that they were, to a man, moved by the unfakable humanity of the exchange, and yet at the same time impressed with McCain's professionalism in disarming the guy, and Jim C.