She was more exhausted from the unremitting tension of being in the place than she had been from the dangers in the swamp.

It had been a day of unremitting nervous tension, so a very short time after entering their suite in the White Horse Hotel, Ruth and Sean fell into exhausted sleep in each other's arms.

Her remark about birthrates touched one of several nerves, which lent the evening an unremitting tension.

And it demonstrated that United States-China relations are recovering at a time of unremitting military tension across the Taiwan Strait that could lead to another rupture in relations and, perhaps, military conflict.

How much an individual viewer actually enjoys that unremitting tension is, I suppose, a matter of temperament.

In dozens of interviews, parents and spouses described the seven-month Marine or 12-month Army deployments to Iraq as periods of unremitting tension.

Weariness with unremitting tension and periodic blood baths among civilians have nudged peacemakers to the table.

The study found that traits that typify the neurotic person - chronic anxiety, long periods of sadness and pessimism, unremitting tension, incessant hostility - were associated with asthma, headaches, peptic ulcers and heart disease.

At once inseparable and irreconcilable, the two kinds of architecture were locked together in a state of unremitting tension.

His routine was also tiring him out, both from lack of sleep and the unremitting tension of his activity.