Although each aria shows a character at a moment of particular intensity or crisis, the result — certainly in this play-it-straight production — is an unalleviated tone of heightened emotion, which made me sympathize with the tendency of many directors in the past couple of decades to camp Handel up.

There was the agony of knowing how young and vibrant he was at the moment he was cut down; there was also the poignancy of his years of unalleviated suffering.

He said many students would apply as normal on Nov. 1 but some might now apply regular decision, given unalleviated concerns that colleges might not accept the late scores, even if higher than older scores.

The existence in England of certainly not less than fifty thousand unhappy women,561 sunk in the very lowest depths of vice and misery, shows sufficiently what an appalling amount of moral evil is festering uncontrolled, undiscussed, and unalleviated, under the fair surface of a decorous society.

They all had their origen in a merciful design, but by the authority with which the officers are clothed, they become little empires, and gradually sink down into the gloom of unalleviated despotism.