unrelieved
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The U.K. publication NME called McCartney’s 1971 album “Ram” an “excursion into almost unrelieved tedium.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 27, 2026
Michieletto’s “Samson et Dalila” staging was scheduled for New York in 2018 but was scrapped when Met general manager Peter Gelb concluded it was “somewhat unrelieved in its bleakness.”
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 5, 2024
Acts of unbroken earnestness, like those of unrelieved wickedness, are dull to watch and boring to talk about.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 19, 2022
“It feels as if we may start to see unexpected grace and resourcefulness and pluck, rather than unrelieved cynicism and self-dealing.”
From New York Times ● Oct. 10, 2022
Her back hunched that way; her head to one side as though crouching from a permanent and unrelieved blow.
From "The Bluest Eye" by Toni Morrison
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