0 When a bad situation or emotion is unrelieved, it is continuous and never improves, not even for a short period:
He knows how to vary their colours and thicknesses subtly, where others find themselves entangled in an unrelieved greyness without any colour at all.
One soon tires of the over-frequent diminished sevenths, the excessively stereotyped rhythms and the unrelieved parataxis, one short, selfcontained phrase repeatedly coming up after another.
The focus should be upon the recognition of unrelieved obstructions within the outflow tracts and/or residual shunts.
They lived in a world of endemic, systemic violence, mainly perpetrated by bandits, and of grinding, unrelieved poverty.
Despite treatment, many patients continue to suffer from unrelieved breathlessness.
The 17 who remained unrelieved appeared to be a severely-affected minority.
They challenge the idea that this was a period of unrelieved gloom and decline, of depression and depopulation, in the life of the countryside.
Any such apparently unrelieved recital of a set of profound perils invites all-too-easy dismissal as an 'extremist view' no matter how strong the evidence that underlies it.
