What is "uncomplaining"

Usage examples of "uncomplaining".

When he was normal, he was the same old mild uncomplaining self: when he was in one of the lapses, he was the same docile dreamy idiot Prew had seen.

At the same time, Emperor Hirohito carried out these engagements with such stolid, uncomplaining discomfort that, in unanticipated ways, he actually became an intimate symbol of the suffering and victimization of his people.

Uncomplaining, ungrudging, unknowing, with that poor soft wandering eye, it was going back to Mother Earth.

He ate what Alberta put before him, and he lay silent and uncomplaining while Dione exercised his legs, and that was all wrong.

White sunlight shone on pelts the colour of new copper wire as they plodded up the hill, ruminatively uncomplaining.

The battle between handicappers and trainers is none the less fierce for being conducted in gentlemanly and largely uncomplaining reticence, and perhaps tonight you will capture a whiff of that unrelenting struggle.

Uncomplaining teams of vermilions hauled the massive blocks across the rough plateau to the edge of the wide, shallow crater in which the city lay sheltered.

It approached closer, hypnotizing Stettin and Wanda with its sweet power, summoning them to walk, transfixed and uncomplaining, straight into its all-absorbing heat.

Such energetic canterings always excited you, and we rode again, you facing me, straddling and impaled, your skirts covering our union, while that brave horse, uncomplaining, rode round and round within the hidden, sunlit arena of that flower carpeted, insect loud clearing, the animal's springing, muscled vigour bringing us, finally, eventually, by our relative stillness (hypnotised, oblivious, lost within that lengthened moment of dappling light and buzzing air) surrendering all control to its long pulsing motions, to a sweet mutuality of bliss.

At an earlier period she had undergone an operation for the removal of a benign tumour with a fortitude that astonished Dr Maturin, accustomed though he was to the uncomplaining courage of his seamen.

For this second voyage, at least Coursel had not flogged her, seeming content to let her lie nude and neglected under the uncomplaining stars.

Even Sills, a little uncomplaining north countryman, said, 'It's goin' ter be beastly cold laike oop 'ere.

You've never suffered, the dead stare of the eyes was saying, you've never felt anything, because only to suffer is to feel—there's no such thing as joy, there's only pain and the absence of pain, only pain and the zero, when one feels nothing—I suffer, I'm twisted by suffering, I'm made of undiluted suffering, that's my purity, that's my virtue—and yours, you the untwisted one, you the uncomplaining, yours is to relieve me of my pain—cut your unsuffering body to patch up mine, cut your unfeeling soul to stop mine from feeling—and we'll achieve the ultimate ideal, the triumph over life, the zero!

They were fine creatures, water buffaloes, patient, uncomplaining.