unmingled

- My cup of sweets is not unmingled: it is dashed with a bitterness that I cannot hide from myself, disguise it as I will.

Her recent exhibition "No fear unmingled with hope" featured hyperreal, perfect renditions of not-so-slightly altered young women (or, less frequently, boys) set loose in the gallery like awkwardly vulnerable doppelgangers.

Readerly "temper" and "preparations," expectations and preconceptions, thus perform an inevitable logical mediation that can on occasion produce strange mix-ups: in his Enquirer essay "Of Choice in Reading," Godwin cites the polite reader who "exclaim [s] upon the most demonstrative arguments as flimsy and superficial, and read[s] the most incoherent and ridiculous rhapsodies with unmingled reverence." Tendency, then, is a function both of the literary work and of the reader's own mental landscape: simply put, Godwin writes, "everything depends upon the spirit in which [books] are read" (143, 140).

Browning's narrator thus imagines that he has been dispatched by God to a river-head to fetch a drink of water, only to find that he is unable to procure any water unmingled with the earth of the river.

But the terms became clear to Poe through the British aesthetician Archibald Alison's restatement of them: "In all the Fine Arts, that Composition is most excellent, in which the different parts most fully unite in the production of one unmingled Emotion, and that Taste the most perfect, where the perception of this relation of objects, in point of expression, is most delicate and precise." (Silverman 1995: 9)

In the other ('context unmingled') the birds could only infer the context from the options encountered.

Appearing either layered on top of each other or in a suspended helix, the ingredients remain inactive and unmingled until dispensed.

One woman of unmingled Native blood sat tall despite her advances years, her straight black hair falling over her back.

She was not so constantly gay, but had her moods of thought, which Clifford, on the whole, liked better than her former phase of unmingled cheerfulness; because now she understood him better and more delicately, and sometimes even interpreted him to himself.

The only problem was that the higher classes of officials and literati proved recalcitrant, even viewing "any friendly attempt on the part of missionaries and others with suspicion not unmingled with contempt" (ibid.).