unassuageable literary

That unassuageable longing is the wish at the heart of this outstanding novel.

In my despair and unassuageable misery I upbraid myself for ever parting with her.

Her tears had awakened him to the agony of unassuageable longing he would carry around forever.

This is done largely by confronting a legislature with the unassuageable grief of graveside death.

A demonic hankering will begin, unassuageable by time, reality or the comfortings of friends.

But her bitterness had already become unassuageable.

And in it they all saw a hunger unassuageable, the deepest, bitterest, most forsaken longing of the heart.

Just as the grief of Blackman’s parents is unassuageable, Obara and his motives are unknowable.

Ms. Argerich, by contrast, establishes continuity more by unassuageable tension.

The grief once indulged was unassuageable.

As we visited Hiroshima’s Hall of Remembrance I was seized by a deep and unassuageable sadness.

There are times in these dances when Miss Rioja seems to be driven by demons or some unassuageable rage or sorrow.

And presently Duncan knew, though it could be only a faint shadow of that unassuageable hunger, something of the disappointment Karl must have experienced.

He was aware of ghost tingles in long-since lost magnetohydrodynamic limb and was tortured by an unassuageable, systemic hunger for a fluid environment.

Its glints of comedy are sharp and dry . . . The novella has an edge to it, and a deep, unassuageable loneliness.

It was not a nothingness that possessed her when she was not making love but rather a terrible, aching, unassuageable sadness that went beyond anything I had encountered.

It's obvious this man must be a great patron of the arts, drawn by an irresistible compuision, by unassuageable feelings of guilt, towards those artists painting crucifixions.

Similarly, Zola's L'Assommoir, a grim tale of alcoholism and poverty in Les Halles, makes riveting reading if you can hack the unassuageable misery.

He is flailing about blindly for some magic formula to assuage the unassuageable, as a late-stage terminal patient in monstrous pain continues to breathe in the hope of a miracle cure.

And of course a woman like Martha, who had mended her own life, felt more at home with her brother, who had mended his, than with a man whose grief was unassuageable.

But the ­added kudos can't have hurt when he offered this: a non-fiction meditation on early flight technology, the love life of the actress Sarah Bernhardt and the unassuageable agony of grief.

In Peace of Mind, Liebman "addressed himself to the individual whose personal grief and anxiety, unassuageable by social betterment alone, required an inner peace that psychology and religion, working together, could provide."

Unhealed wounds in its civil society, dating back to the Dreyfus Affair of the 1890s, had left France's political Left and Right with unassuageable feelings of resentment towards their opponents.

Only when Isambard came out to the church and stood watching them at work, as he did daily, some emanation of unassuageable grief reached out to them from his silence to discomfort and dismay.

She watched her darling's last sleep, and cared nothing for cold or violence or shame or death or the unassuageable anguish of hate and love that made all the air about her bitter.