untempered

How To Use untempered In A Sentence

• Anyway, the 1960s weren't ready for an instrument whose notes were so impure and untempered. Times, Sunday Times
• His pettiness and even cruelty come to the fore, untempered by the overwhelming charm and essential generosity of spirit. The Times Literary Supplement
• They provide an escape valve, allowing citizens upset by government corruption, job losses or untempered greed to blow off some steam at something other than the Chinese government.
• In the cruelties of the sentence upon Hermia, Oberon's trick upon Titania and the lovers' experiences in the wood, we see that untempered desire is vicious, that love can be as much a war as a partnership.
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• But besides the hypocrisy of merely outwardly "daubing" to make the wall look fair (Mt 23: 27, 29; Ac 23: 3), there is implied the unsoundness of the wall from the absence of true uniting cement; the "untempered cement" answering to the lie of the prophets, who say, in support of their prophecies, "Thus saith the Lord, when the Lord hath not spoken Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
• For me, it got worse with years of psychology and Zen untempered by real compassion. Darren Littlejohn: Comfort Rather Than Be Comforted: A 12-Step Buddhist Perspective
• He plays scorned lover Jed with an untempered delicacy and spidery creepiness, while the antihero is the epitome of controlled frustration.
• Ambition, and the base counterfeit of love, those two master passions in untempered minds, were the springs of this antipathy. The Scottish Chiefs
• There are two views about these joltingly raw, untempered natural-brass harmonics. Times, Sunday Times