unrelieved

Example Sentences

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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

Opening just as the area descends into months of unrelieved darkness, the six-episode season has an icy milieu and a female gaze forcefully distinct from the show’s past outings.

From New York Times • Jan. 5, 2024

How, then, can the L.A. of unrelieved light be also the L.A. of noir film and fiction?

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 18, 2022

It was a bleak, harsh view, the sea and the rock unrelieved by any tree or sweep of grass or sand.

From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling