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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

It moves us because it celebrates love without begging or bragging, and because of the pathos of its minor key; its unconsoled, recurring awareness of that "ever-during night".

From The Guardian • Mar. 22, 2010

"But it was my cent, an' I ain't got a quarter!" roared Tommy, still unconsoled.

From The Romance of a Plain Man by Glasgow, Ellen Anderson Gholson