untempered

Example Sentences

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At 107 minutes, it was an unusually slow performance, but one allowing full Mahler time for extreme swings of emotion, from a ravishing smelling of the roses to outbursts of untempered angst.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 19, 2023

Experience — from the battlefield to the bureaucracy — had instilled a healthy suspicion of power untempered by character.

From Washington Post • Oct. 18, 2021

Idealism untempered by an understanding of the complex interplay of forces inside a country ends up in this sort of mess.

From New York Times • Sep. 10, 2019

If by “rewarding” you mean “educational” — not a different definition that would involve, for example, money or untempered joy.

From The Verge • Nov. 3, 2017

Especially during the summer, the streets so dog mad with heat, untempered, literally steaming with possibilities, none of them good.

From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee