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  • adjective Not consoled.

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Examples

  • Like any field in or outside of the arts, the parallel universes of writing and publishing spin off, it seems, more than their fair share of alpha privatives, like so many unconsoled planets.

    Zoo Press: A Post-Mortem : Rigoberto González : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation 2007

  • I suppose I should be thankful he was heeding my PSA and not actually driving while using his cellphone, but strangely I was unconsoled.

    Archive 2008-08-01 BikeSnobNYC 2008

  • I suppose I should be thankful he was heeding my PSA and not actually driving while using his cellphone, but strangely I was unconsoled.

    The Indignity of Living in New York: Big, Fat, Lazy Egos BikeSnobNYC 2008

  • One learns to look to written poetry only for kinds of lyric expression that are rare in popular cultureinvolving absolute negative capability, for instance, and an unconsoled engagement with human mortality.

    How to Save 'Tintern Abbey' from New-Critical Pedagogy (in Three Minutes Fifty-Six Seconds) 2002

  • Perhaps the sight of me caused her a certain irritation (held in suspense so long as she saw that I was miserable, unconsoled) because I had had relations with Albertine and she envied me, perhaps — supposing that I considered myself on that account more highly favoured than her — an advantage which she herself had never, perhaps, obtained, nor even sought.

    The Sweet Cheat Gone 2003

  • Alyosha repeated unconsoled, hiding his face in his hands in an agony of remorse for his indiscretion.

    The Brothers Karamazov 2003

  • Becky had clung wordlessly to her neck, unconsoled even by the promise of presents.

    Slightly Married Balogh, Mary 2003

  • He then crossed himself and returned to the treasure - filled tent, where he suddenly burst into tears and remained unconsoled while Lukasz and Piotr plotted how they might get their three wagons home.

    Poland Michener, James 1983

  • He was in no mood for his own work and by eleven he wandered unconsoled and purposeless towards the blackened ruins of the burned-out shed.

    Cargo of Eagles Allingham, Margery, 1904-1966. n 50021032-1 1968

  • He was in no mood for his own work and by eleven he wandered unconsoled and purposeless towards the blackened ruins of the burned-out shed.

    Cargo of Eagles Allingham, Margery, 1904-1966. n 50021032-1 1968

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