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

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

Rosario Dawson as a D.E.A. agent and Peter Sarsgaard as another U.S. attorney are uncharacteristically flat, and Stuhlbarg plays Richard Sackler on a note of unrelieved glumness.

From New York Times • Oct. 12, 2021

Her back hunched that way; her head to one side as though crouching from a permanent and unrelieved blow.

From "The Bluest Eye" by Toni Morrison