unstaunched

In the mid-’20s, the West’s drought, unstaunched even by pumped Michigan water, had leapt the plains to Wisconsin.

“If Fuzhou Nighttime Feeling were a sound,” she says, “it would be early/mid-nineties R&B. If it were a flavor, it would be the ice-cold Pepsi we drink as we turn down tiny alleyways where little kids defecate wildly. It is the feeling of drowning in a big hot open gutter, of crawling inside an undressed, unstaunched wound that has never been cauterized.”

Yea, let me not forget, Lest with unstaunched tears I leave them wet, Dimming their faithful power, till they not see Some small, plain task that might be done for Thee.

Hers was bleeding unstaunched, for a red woman, when she has given her heart does not take it back.

The Democrats’ inability to control the messaging during the legislative debate bled unstaunched into the campaign, as Republicans appealed to base voters with a bumper-sticker pledge to repeal the law or, if unable, to drain its financing.