My hopes rose high and methought my evil days were at an end, and I stood waiting for alms to be given unasked and for wealth scattered on all sides in the dust.
With no visible, directly noticeable consequences, as Mintz says, questions of " long-term nutritive or medical consequences went unasked and unanswered" .
Had he been a handsome, heroic-looking young gentleman, I should not have dared to stand thus questioning him against his will, and offering my services unasked.
Did Waugh have a point? The question goes unasked. But these are minor complaints. For the ageing Rose Macaulay, another British novelist of the period, the war was shattering.
We passed the triangular farm on our left and the path widened to allow us to walk together. I hung back in the separate unasked and unanswerable questions.
Day by day thou art making me worthy of the simple, great gifts that thou gavest to me unasked---this sky and the light, this body and the life and the mind---saving me from perils of overmuch desire.