Sentences with phrase «as unrelieved»

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Harvard's Czeisler, perhaps the leading expert on sleep and productivity, points out that while corporations have policies around harmful practices such as smoking and drinking, they tacitly encourage long hours unrelieved by sufficient rest.

(Exodus 34:19, 20; cf. Numbers 18:15) In one place, however, the original demand for the sacrifice of first - born sons, as of firstborn beasts, stands not only unmistakable in meaning but unrelieved by any exception: «The first - born of thy sons shalt thou give unto me.

Yet conjointly with this terror, the present as mere unrelieved preservation of the past assumes the character of a horror of the past, rejection of it, revolt:

It is not an unrelieved sense of tragedy: Israel records with humor and glee in I 5 - 6 the humiliation, in the presence of the ark, of Dagon, god of Philistia, and the humiliation by a plague of the Philistines themselves, regarded as a result of having the ark in their midst.

Twain's Satan, in fact, sees the sadism of the Old Testament God as an escape from a universe that would otherwise have bored Him with its unrelieved sweetness and light.

Now, if this is true, it is also wrong to read Amos as a prophet of unqualified, unrelieved negation.

It doesn't take long for optimism to give way to extreme predictability, unrelieved puerility, and the creepy realization that Cristophe Beck's invasive score is a riff on Orff's «Musica Poetica,» best known perhaps as the main theme to Terence Malick's own black love story Badlands.

In a mere 90 minutes this horror film (pun intended) casts serious aspersions on the integrity and social responsibility of its Pittsburgh - based makers, the film industry as a whole and [exhibitors] who book [the picture], as well as raising doubts about the future of the regional cinema movement and about the moral health of filmgoers who cheerfully opt for this unrelieved orgy of sadism.»

As the bloat continues unrelieved, many of the dogs body systems may become involved.

An enormous and unrelieved strain must have been set up when his inherited Jewishness, containing elements of squalor, mustiness and warmth as well as elements of religious and moral grain, confronted the brightness, the gaiety, the carefree atmosphere of the Western capital.

This intransigently held, fixed and false belief (i.e., a delusion) is created by the collapse of the organized cognitive structures of the narcissistic / borderline personality into delusional beliefs, as specifically described by Millon (2011), in response to the psychological stresses triggered by the «unrelieved adversity and failure» surrounding the divorce experience (i.e., the public rejection and abandonment of the narcissistic / (borderline) parent by the attachment figure of the other spouse).