How to Use unrelieved in a Sentence

unrelieved

adjective

• How, then, can the L.A. of unrelieved light be also the L.A. of noir film and fiction?
  — Los Angeles Times, 18 Jan. 2022
• Omar said his tenure at KTU has been an unrelieved nightmare.
  — Ken Silverstein, The New Republic, 19 Aug. 2019
• Acts of unbroken earnestness, like those of unrelieved wickedness, are dull to watch and boring to talk about.
  — Los Angeles Times, 19 Oct. 2022
• The account of the unrelieved tragedy of her life went far beyond anything which anyone had ever described to me in spoken words.
  — Charles McGrath, New York Times, 16 Jan. 2018
• Yet the feelings evoked by these often grim stories affect us differently than does the unrelieved gloom spread over Jude.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 6 July 2018
• In yoga, the hips are often referred to as storehouses for tension and unrelieved emotions.
  — Chloe Kernaghan, Time, 29 May 2018
• Never guilty of unrelieved kindness toward his characters, Trevor seems overtly punitive in some of these stories.
  — Katherine A. Powers, WSJ, 11 May 2018
• His own habitual habit is black pants and turtleneck, quite unrelieved by color or ornament.
  — Mary Elizabeth Andriotis, House Beautiful, 11 June 2021
• Yet Clarke recalls this period as one of unrelieved disability.
  — Laura Miller, The New Yorker, 7 Sep. 2020
• You’re confronted with a world of almost unrelieved cowardice, cynicism, myopia, narcissism, and ineptitude, where the overriding motive is the pursuit of power for its own sake.
  — George Packer, The Atlantic, 18 May 2022
• The reason for buying the reissue of an 18-year-old book: Fleming aims for intensity of flavor and respect for seasonality and primary ingredients over show or unrelieved sweet richness.
  — Corby Kummer, The Atlantic, 11 Dec. 2019
• Rather than wrestle her subject into more comfortable territory, Khakpour forces her reader to deal with unrelieved uncertainty.
  — Lidija Haas, The New Yorker, 17 June 2014
• As material for art, emergency medicine, like the climate crisis, would seem, given its tendency toward unrelieved crescendo, both appealing and treacherous.
  — Lidija Haas, Harper's Magazine, 18 Aug. 2020
• That voice is both dramatic and poetic, informational and expressive, collecting shards of observations and reminiscences, pushing unrelieved tensions to the fore and turning his story into a crisis of consciousness.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 19 Sep. 2019
• Eligible patients must be diagnosed with an incurable disease or a condition that causes intolerable, unrelieved suffering.
  — Washington Post, 20 June 2019

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024