How To Use Unrelieved In A Sentence
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The scale is daunting, the monotony unrelieved.
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Upon receiving the crushing news that one's child has a genetic disorder or birth defect, parents may suppose that the future has suddenly grown unrelievedly bleak.
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So the cycle of blame and retaliation continues, unrelieved and unrelieving, as history and today's newspaper bear witness.
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Second, the view from abroad lacks the tendentiousness of American commentators, who have long ago dug into their partisan bunkers (The New York Times is bad, but The Wall Street Journal is so unrelievedly dogmatic that it makes you cry for the old days of kindly Robert Bartley).
Robert Teitelman: Politics and economic truths
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And apart from two very faint stripes of marginally lighter brown decorating his face, his fur was unrelieved by any markings, and seemed to absorb the light from the overhead fluorescents.
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Danny Boy sat up, his thick hair like a helmet on his head, the bleariness in his eyes unrelieved.
Rain Gods
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For starters, the dances on offer — two abstract dramas bookending a kinetic treatise on physics — are ultimately too unrelievedly samey.
Times, Sunday Times
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Either way, the result is unrelieved shallowness.
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It's the unrelieved drabness of big industrial cities that depresses me.
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He was divided between pleasure at his success, and sorrow that the castaways were as yet unrelieved, for he could not doubt that the gunboat was the same that had been dispatched from Brisbane to their assistance.
Round the World in Seven Days
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However, clinical practice continues to be characterised by unrelieved pain, illogical prescribing of analgesics, and widespread ‘opiophobia.’
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This was all to the good, since the lengthy period that followed - from the 1880s through the end of World War II and beyond - was one of unrelieved crisis.
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In Sicily, the family was a strong defense against the desperate and unrelieved poverty that characterized life.
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She held the family together through years of unrelieved poverty.
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The literature on immigration policy is almost unrelievedly critical of the state.
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Richardson's performance on Meet the Press was an hour of unrelieved ducking and running, revealing the immature temperament of a sticky-handed 6-year old who won't admit the cookie jar is empty even when confronted with the evidence.
Margaret Carlson: Richardson Meets the Press -- and Melts Down
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It turns out that randomly selected laws lead almost inevitably either to unrelieved chaos or boring and uneventful simplicity.
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Could someone please spread the word to the awards-seeking moviemakers of the world that unrelieved solemnity is not truer to life, not even in our worst moments.
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Indeed, it could fairly be said to have started the long period of unrelieved Celtic supremacy which characterised the late sixties and early seventies.
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It is even more surprising, given its immensely distinguished author, to find it so wooden, creaky and unrelievedly dull.
Times, Sunday Times
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The average household consists of about seven people, and every day the toll of unrelieved poverty and hunger is rising.
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Rural zones, in contrast, are generally viewed by urbanites as backlands, as dull places of unrelieved poverty.
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She put one hand up to the site of a flickering, ongoing headache, unrelieved by over-the-counter medications.
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If you read their stories, they are almost uniformly bleak, with stories of unrelieved violence and horrific choices.
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But Faber added it was ‘no secret’ he has ‘trouble with a literary world-view that is unrelievedly cynical and which treats all human endeavours with disgust and derision.’
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The sun baked down on the concrete, unrelieved by any breeze.
FOLLOW THE SHARKS
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It turns out that randomly selected laws lead almost inevitably either to unrelieved chaos or boring and uneventful simplicity.
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I left the car and trudged 20 blocks back home, where we began the longest day imaginable: nine carless hours of unrelieved care of a toddler.
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The tone is unrelievedly negative, with the unflattering contrasts between appearance and reality a constant and at times wearying tattoo.
Times, Sunday Times
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unrelieved suffering
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Since then I've come to believe in Barack Obama even more strongly as I've watched him struggle to provide healthcare for tens of millions of American children, women and men at risk for bankruptcy, unrelieved suffering, even premature death because they lacked the healthcare protection that every civilized society should vouchsafe for its citizens.
The Moral Measure of Obama's Presidency
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Please, please see your GP or a counsellor if you have feelings of depression, unrelieved sadness or hopelessness, or thoughts of suicide.
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Resistance would probably not have continued after Savenay without the unrelieved brutality of republican reprisals over the spring of 1794.
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The literary genre best suited to represent it seems to be the textbook, which, according to Ravitch, is assembled nowadays with so much tact and caution that the result is unrelieved banality.
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It may not be his most original play but it is his most unrelievedly tragic.
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The sun baked down on the concrete, unrelieved by any breeze.
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It had been a historical commonplace to view the long interval between Archimedes and Galileo as a period of unrelieved ignorance and superstition.
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You only find characters as unrelievedly bad as Hilly in melodramas and soap operas.
Reader reviews of The Help by Kathryn Stockett.
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I saw now that the unrelieved white of the landscape was actually the blue of buried water, the rose of reflected dawn, and the yellowish green of marsh grasses mounded beneath the drifts, awaiting spring.
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Its tracks lent his street a bleak aspect unrelieved by the plain Californian bungalows opposite of Loftus Crescent.
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No 2 is unrelievedly harrowing, written when he was a sick man, and sometimes dismissed as a failure.
Times, Sunday Times
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And the short-term economic news will not be unrelievedly uplifting.
Times, Sunday Times
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There is something unrelievedly juvenile about the current Republican mentality.
Republicans celebrate April Fools by praising Obama
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Brilliantly though the power of war to destroy, corrupt and degrade everything it touches is conveyed, the book's unrelieved grimness will be a problem for some.
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At their back, the continent to which they belong offers an image of unrelieved misery.
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It is a prosperous society of states - productive, diverse, but subject to waves of disruption and containing pockets of unobserved and unrelieved grimness.
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We find only a few clusters of trees punctuating the grassland, which is almost unrelievedly open and sunny—disadvantageous for a lurk-and-lurch predator.
The Song of The Dodo
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The literature on immigration policy is almost unrelievedly critical of the state.
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Soon I'll be reduced to relating little incidents from my life, unrelieved by links anywhere.
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And it was this unrelieved emotion that made The Children Are Watching Us such a radical departure for a film made during the last years of the Fascist regime.
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The sun baked down on the concrete, unrelieved by any breeze.
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I was not merely celebrating my survival of evensong; I was escaping from the unrelieved stress of the entire day.
ABSOLUTE TRUTHS
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The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality defines a pressure ulcer as a lesion caused by unrelieved pressure resulting in damage to underlying tissue.
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But there was nothing but the unrelieved monotony of dormant fields, no significant growth yet awakened by the spring.
THE INNOCENTS AT HOME (A SUPERINTENDENT KENWORTHY NOVEL)
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‘Biography’ scriptwriters churn out copy that is always simple, straightforward, and unrelievedly vanilla.
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At dinner parties, or at house parties with no dancing, or at any occasion where there is no escape from constant, unrelieved social interaction, I can sometimes struggle.
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Dank, damp and almost unrelievedly joyless, the Starz miniseries tells a fictional tale of 12th-century politics and the skullduggery that was supposedly part of it, as knaves and heretics vie for the throne of a mucky, pig-ridden and sparsely populated England.
TV preview: 'The Pillars of the Earth'
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However, for the 100,000 or so Aborigines (50,000 of them under the age of twenty) who are living mostly in remote or extremely remote communities, the story is one of unrelieved tragedy and horror.
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The literature on immigration policy is almost unrelievedly critical of the state.
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Mademoiselle herself looked worthy of her squire, for her dark, animated face stood the test of the unrelieved whiteness so successfully, that she was all ablush with delight at the discovery that she was not an old woman after all, but on occasion could still look as girlish as she felt.
Pixie O'Shaughnessy
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Perhaps it is because we have watched while other people - good, kind people whose own suffering was unrelieved by material luxury - slipped into the obscurity of the past.
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The unrelieved pessimism that pervades the book bogs down the reader.
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It had been a historical commonplace to view the long interval between Archimedes and Galileo as a period of unrelieved ignorance and superstition.
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The fullness and tenderness you experience when your milk comes in is sometimes called engorgement, but these feelings aren’t symptoms of true engorgement, which is a more serious condition caused by unrelieved breast fullness.
Pregnancy, Childbirth, and the Newborn
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Ruthless editing would have crafted sharp-edged form out of the three hours of exhausting overabundance, infused subtlety into unrelieved shrillness.
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I found particularly interesting one of his smaller points, about how the Nazi Party probably was not understood ideologically by most of its supporters. it seems safe to conclude that the mass base of the Nazi movement represented one of the more unrelievedly ill-informed clienteles that a major party has assembled in a modern state.
Notes on Critical Review's Converse issue, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
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Although it was July, allegedly one of the English summer months, sheet rain began to fall from skies of unrelieved gloom.
THE ENDLESS GAME
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It was, said a survivor, a scene of unrelieved horror.
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Still, the result of such an unrelieved diet of negativity is that for most Australians at the beginning of the 21st Century the profession of politics ranks down with used car salesmen.
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Those whose work constantly expose them to the unrelieved grimness of human suffering and death take refuge in gallows humor.
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Refreshed and regowned, again in dark colors unrelieved by any bright embroidery, Aene paced nervously along a subtly lit path towards the Castrea residence.
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Yellow is an image of joy and happiness to most people, but studies show that spending lots of time in a room that's yellow unrelieved by other colours can make you feel irritable and hostile.
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Yet what makes this a fine play is that Lamont Stewart neither sentimentalises Maggie nor treats working-class life as unrelievedly grim.
Men Should Weep - review
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The result is that a lot of folks go to their graves feeling unrelieved remorse for disputes they had long ago with lovers, family members, business colleagues, and others.
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He describes the unrelieved crumminess of all Russian manufactures that are not weapons or space stations.
Documents and Disorder
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But religion tends to be more private than public with them, and the character of their faith tends to be unrelievedly upbeat.
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The merit of his _Maximes_ as examples of style -- a style which may be described as lapidary -- is incomparable; it is impossible to say more, or to say it more adequately, in little; but one wearies in the end of the monotony of an idea unalterably applied, of unqualified brilliance, of unrelieved concision; we anticipate our surprise, and its purpose is defeated.
A History of French Literature Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II.
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You try walking around with unrelieved pain for a week straight and we'll see just how charming you turn out to be.
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Ahead, along the lonely Stuart Highway, lay 900-plus miles of largely unrelieved emptiness all the way to Alice Springs, and beyond it, Uluru.
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At a time when so many prognostications about the future condition of the planet seem unrelievedly gloomy, Newton and Helen Mayer Harrison remind us that we are still masters of our fate.