untempered

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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

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

But Bevin is the first to make an explicit case, untempered by euphemism or evasion.

From Slate • Sep. 14, 2016

When Homer came to the back of the wagon with a lantern and revealed Ridgeway’s face, the slave catcher was staring at her with untempered fury.

From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead