unrecriminating

Updated: May 27, 2025

With her ash-grey hair, her wrinkles, and the mild unrecriminating expression with which she supported her pain, she looked like a good child caught up by old age in the obedient performance of some task. That was what she had always been most like, all through life a good child. She had always walked as if someone in authority, most likely an aunt, had just told her to mind and turn her toes out.

Rebecca West - The Judge