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“Try a Little Tenderness,” the Otis Redding classic, figures prominently in a play in which acceptable expressions of love between men is punishingly limited, leaving an ache that can grow dangerous when unconsoled.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 23, 2024

I wanted the truth, even if it left me feeling unconsoled and morally bereft.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 14, 2021

Ottavio considers her delay “cruel,” and she sings another great tragic aria explaining that she loves him but is still unconsoled: “Maybe someday, heaven will take pity on me.”

From The New Yorker • Feb. 17, 2015

As with these two illustrious predecessors there is a strange beauty – sad, lyrical , unconsoled – in this latest virtual instalment of the American photographic safari-odyssey.

From The Guardian • Jul. 14, 2012

But Concha, quite unconsoled, did nothing but clasp her hands and quicken her supplications to the Virgin.

From The Firebrand by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)