Unrelieved

From these thoughts a natural transition led him to consider the wonderful tenacity with which those beings clung to life, whose existence seemed to him only a series of the most terrible sufferings: – beings, who exposed to all the miseries of pain, poverty, sickness, and famine; to pain unrelieved, and the feebleness of age unassisted, yet still were anxious to live; and could never, as he at this moment found himself disposed to do – ❋ Unknown (1793)

Malaria is, indeed, the unrelieved burden on the economy. ❋ Vivian Glyck (2011)

While he's "not expecting Bing Crosby-style" wholesome programming, he's also still reeling from what he saw as "unrelieved hostility" toward Catholicism in a recent House episode about a patient who is crucified every year as part of a deal with God to keep his daughter cancer-free. ❋ Unknown (2011)

The actual bouts, which last up to 25 minutes and take place, at the higher levels, just two or three times a year, briefly punctuate months of unrelieved tedium. ❋ Tim Marchman (2011)

I also steer away from reading "human interest" blogs, being bored bythe unrelieved minutiae of the blogger's life, feelingsand thoughts (usually not original enough to be distinctive), being much more drawn to blogs that are about ideas - expressed from a personal perspective, of course, that is what gives blogs their charm, but none the less, about ideas and thoughts compared with domestic details. ❋ Maxine (2009)

It was a life of unexpected roadblocks, unknown environments and cultures, unrelieved anxiety about what might happen next. ❋ Rev. Peter M. Wallace (2011)

As for Star Wars, episodes 1 through 3 are virtually unrelieved horribleness, with bad actors acting badly, and good actors apparently strangled by bad directing, wooden dialogue and characters who are almost universally unsympathetic. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Fistula is a devastating complication of unrelieved obstructed labor in which the baby's head gets stuck in the birth canal and presses against the soft tissues of the pelvis. ❋ The Media Consortium (2011)

The unrelieved po-facery of everyone else is astonishing. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Unsuccessful, unrelieved — I could find no relief in Happy Land. ❋ Penny Goring (2011)

Discovering that jockeys are on the take will never be a cause for celebration, but that does not mean it is an unrelieved disaster either, whatever some of the headlines might say as this story develops and concludes. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Were winter's assaults unrelieved by intervals of milder weather, and were they not to fade away in March and April, life would be quite different. ❋ Mark Helprin (2011)

The use of stucco also prevents the occasionally oppressive affect of large stretches of unrelieved brick, and would provide a splendid canvas for the long shadows of afternoon and evening along the structure's flanks. ❋ Unknown (2009)

You told Dr. Vaillant he should read Joseph Heller on the unrelieved tragedy of conventionally successful businessmen. ❋ Unknown (2009)