resting
adjective
that rests; not active.
Example Sentences
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Till then I see what’s really always there, unresting death a whole day nearer now.
From New York Times ● Aug. 4, 2018
Nevertheless it is true to say that the character of Merivel owes a debt to Pepys – to the sublime diarist's willingness to expose himself to unresting self-scrutiny.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 28, 2012
Photograph: Ronald Grant Archive No film-maker of the 60s embodies that tumultuous decade as thoroughly as Jean-Luc Godard, whose ceaseless, unresting innovation led others into a new realm of radical politics and extreme formal experimentation.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 21, 2010
They are bound together by unutterable aloneness, and they summon up the apparitions with a brief incantation about eternally unresting souls in order to have someone further to talk to.
From Time Magazine Archive
Thereupon smith Ilmarinen Set to work to shape the image, Worked at night without cessation, And by day he worked unresting.
From Kalevala, The Land of the Heroes, Volume Two by Elias Lönnrot
