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Example sentences for: unrelieved
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The nearly unrelieved squalor of this career goes side by side with a self-consciously decadent and degenerate lifestyle.
The early scenes evoke elation and dread simultaneously, the later ones just dread; and the last half-hour is unrelieved torture.
It is "almost old-fashioned in how satisfyingly scary it is" (Sherryl Connelly, Daily News ). David Kipen of the San Francisco Chronicle finds the book tedious: Nine days is "an awfully long time to spend in the largely unrelieved company of one little girl lost."
Eventually I concluded even the correct word would have become maddening from repetition, unrelieved by a synonym or circumlocution.
Dissenters include Amy Gamerman of the Wall Street Journal , who says it's dated ("Salesman is showing its age") and Slate 's Jacob Weisberg, who praises this production but calls the play itself "unrelieved and unchallenging."