unrelieved

Example Sentences

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The U.K. publication NME called McCartney’s 1971 album “Ram” an “excursion into almost unrelieved tedium.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 27, 2026

Michieletto’s “Samson et Dalila” staging was scheduled for New York in 2018 but was scrapped when Met general manager Peter Gelb concluded it was “somewhat unrelieved in its bleakness.”

From Seattle Times • Jun. 5, 2024

“It feels as if we may start to see unexpected grace and resourcefulness and pluck, rather than unrelieved cynicism and self-dealing.”

From New York Times • Oct. 10, 2022

How, then, can the L.A. of unrelieved light be also the L.A. of noir film and fiction?

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 18, 2022

Against their rhetoric, I stood out in relief, unrelieved.

From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez