Citations:unwield

English citations of unwield

Adjective: powerless or unmanageable

• 1999, Richard Beadle, Pamela M. King, York Mystery Plays: A Selection in Modern Spelling, page 49:

  For I am of great eld, Weak and all unwield, As ilk man see it may;

Verb

• 1937, Chinese Students Association of America, Chinese Student: The Far Eastern Magazine - Volume 1, page 198:

  It represents something that has played a tremendous part in the unwielding of this nation, something, whether we realize it or not, that is a part of our heritage.

• 1994, Rapport - Volume 18, page 69:

  Modern history gets a Shakespearean touch as Richard Dyer MacCann, Harvard Ph.D in government, unwields his liberal polemic with drama, urgency and iambic grace.

• 2007, Siddharth Mallavarapu, Banning the Bomb:

  The task of discerning the political and cultural repertoire that the judge unwields in advancing his case for the comprehensive illegality of nuclear threat or use assumes a special relevance.

• 2014, David Lehman, Terrance Hayes, The Best American Poetry 2014, page xxiii:

  So unwieldy was his 182-page introduction that it promptly “unwielded” my commentary!