unrepressed

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The musical, which features a score by Lucy Simon with unrepressed operatic aspirations, is ready to hit the road.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 28, 2023

“Order shrimp and lobster towers/But it’s me that gets devoured,” she sings, patiently and desperately, as if buckling under unrepressed humidity.

From New York Times • Jul. 20, 2022

“I’m loud, and I’m vulgar, and I wear the pants in the house because somebody’s got to,” Martha says with unrepressed bitterness to her husband George.

From Economist • Apr. 5, 2018

She clutched the kite — just a simple red one shaped like a teardrop — with unrepressed enthusiasm.

From Nature • Mar. 12, 2014

Nothing short of habitual deference on her part, and unrepressed indulgence of temper on his, can account for 248 or excuse his not writing before this unexpected check as he wrote after it.

From Autobiography, Letters and Literary Remains of Mrs. Piozzi (Thrale) (2nd ed.) (2 vols.) Edited with notes and Introductory Account of her life and writings by Piozzi, Hester Lynch