I found the rear of the building in darkness
unrelieved from within; on the other hand, the climbing moon beat so full upon the garden wall, it was as though a lantern pinned me as I crept beneath it.
The Coldwater was fully equipped for two months' patrolling--the ordinary length of assignment to this service--and a month had already passed, its monotony entirely
unrelieved by sight of another craft, when the first of our misfortunes befell.
The truth was, that while his person had been numbed by the shock, his susceptibility to apprehension kept his agitated mind in
unrelieved distress.
For whichsoever reason, or for all, he drooped his devoted head when the boy was gone, and shrank together on the floor, and grovelled there, with the palms of his hands tight-clasping his hot temples, in unutterable misery, and
unrelieved by a single tear.
I say insufferable; for the feeling was
unrelieved by any of that half-pleasureable, because poetic, sentiment, with which the mind usually receives even the sternest natural images of the desolate or terrible.
Smallweed while away the rosy hours, two
unrelieved sentinels forgotten as aforesaid by the Black Serjeant.
The uniformity of the colouring gives an extreme quietness to the view, -- the whitish grey of the quartz rock, and the light brown of the withered grass of the plain, being
unrelieved by any brighter tint.
She stood, a frail and passive vessel into which the other went on pouring all the accumulated dislike for all her pupils, her scorn of all her employers (the ducal one included), the accumulated resentment, the infinite hatred of all these
unrelieved years of--I won't say hypocrisy.
After a protracted period of
unrelieved gloom, that's a welcome change.
Its
unrelieved tension and pessimism bode ill for the future of people's cooperation in political and family life.
THE trouble starts with the title which suggests straightaway you're in for a tale of almost
unrelieved underwater doom and gloom as Russia's first nuclear sub leaves port in the Cold War world of 1961.
At one level Said is correct, based on the optimistic and dubious assumptions of American melting-pot social theory; at another, he is mistaken, for he assumes that forms of cultural remembrance will remain static and reactionary in the Canadian multicultural model and therefore the pain of exile will go
unrelieved and unexpressed.
Ide's personality is stamped on the whole production, from the set with its simple banners of Japanese funeral bunting to the costumes in
unrelieved black, which vary from Western office-wear to traditional mourning kimonos.
The first print run of the booklet, due to be launched on April 1, describes Nuneaton and Bedworth: "Coal-field country, lots of post-war development and still
unrelieved by new commercial development or estate improvement schemes.
Speaking of newspapers, The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, and The Washington Post all test their editors and writers--a practice that may actually make these papers less interesting, or at least help account for their
unrelieved blandness.
