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Usage examples of unrequited.

Jinny was comparing him to an ancient cartoon character who was a cringing bootlicker, a toady, a completely repressed monosexual, and an unrequited lover.

The typical Chekhovian character longs for what he can neither express nor have, and each unrequited wish is one more dream in a universal nightmare.

And there they all stood in a pile, an irritating, distracting pile, a monument of unrequited labour, an unrealised capital, a silent testimony to the exceeding narrowness of the limits of British indulgence to talent.

Somewhere, along the Avenida Quintana, a man played a bandoneon, squeezing out a typical tango melody, infused with the bittersweet essences of Latin macho, unrequited love, and blood vengeance.

The trouble was that while in humans this sort of behaviour tended to manifest itself in practical jokes, petty jealousies, silly misunderstandings and instances of tragically unrequited love, with Minds it occasionally meant they forgot to tell everybody else about finding entire stellar civilisations, or took it upon themselves to try to alter the course of a developed culture everybody already did know about (with the almost unspeakable implication that one day they might do just that not with a culture but with the Culture… always assuming they hadn't done so already, of course).

She had been eager and very practised, but nevertheless Craig felt unrequited and restless.

On his lips he tasted the bitter, bitter ash of unrequited desire.

He looked rather stealthily at Rodney, who was tapping the coal nervously with a poker, and quivering almost physically, so Denham thought, with desire to talk about this play of his, and vanity unrequited and urgent.

Markus shuffled off disconsolately down the street, to drown his unrequited love in ale.

One did not sing liensennes of courtly, unrequited love or ribaldries of enthusiastically answered passion in the forests of Arbonne when news came of a village destroyed and women burned alive by the king of Gorhaut.

So what is this thing you have about tall women and unrequited love?

If the answer is bad, well, among my species unrequited love is a serious condition but it is rarely fatal….

The poem was a song of unrequited love, filled with dark imagery and sensual innuendo.

The music flowed into space, unrequited love, bound-less passion unanswered.

We spend our working time plotting, killing, being raped, deserted, murdered and/or suffering the pangs of unrequited love, so is it any wonder we’.