What is "unsung"

Usage examples of "unsung".

But at the other end of the spectrum was Jon Postel, the unsung hero of networking.

Demonland should there die evilly before their time, unhonoured, unsung.

With prosperous wing full summed, to tell of deeds Above heroic, though in secret done, And unrecorded left through many an age: Worthy to have not remained so long unsung.

He had hardly begun to say the precious words of redemption when a bullet blasted into his heart and he fell to the ground to die beside his brothers, and went unsung and unshepherded to heaven.

Chinese were first in the tea fields, and that undoubtedly the plant was a native of both China and Japan when it was slumbering on the slopes of India, unpicked, unsteeped, undrunk, unhonored, and unsung.

Every thirtieth Lantiff was an officer, apparently unarmed, and it was these officers who wielded the deadliest weapon, the tube of lens that some unsung Lantian len grinder had invented.

Their glorious institutions, their unequalled freedom, were, of course, not left unsung.

In other words, special rootedness in the biosphere can indeed be reasonably claimedthere is literally a million years of rich tradition of the wise woman who feels the currents of embodiment in nature and communion, and celebrates it with healing rituals and knowing ways of connecting wisdom, a wisdom that does not worship merely the agentic sun and its glaring brightness, but finds in the depths and the organic dark the ways of being linked in relationship, that puts care above power and nurturance above self-righteousness, that reweaves the fragments with concern, and midwifes the communions and the unsung connections that sustain us each and all.

Despite those titles, power and pelf, The wretch, concentred all in self, Living, shall forfeit fair renown, And doubly dying, shall go down To the vile dust from whence he sprung, Unwept, unhonoured and unsung.

I studied the cistern for a while, and then removed the top, revealing its guts -- the ball valve and associated gimmickry invented by that unsung genius, Thomas Crapper.

In this way, Arthur, just being Arthur, cheered the Soul of Britain — a deed unsung yet no less worthy than any lauded by the bards.

Stoat began to explain his unsung role in the machinations of representative government, but the one-eyed man slammed a fist so hard on the polished wood that Stoat's picture frames toppled.

The memory of most men is an abandoned cemetery where lie, unsung and unhonored, the dead whom they have ceased to cherish.

First you were an unsung hero, then you lost your innocence, then your wings - until a beautiful and intelligent girl came along and pulled you out of the nose-dive.

He would later become a Jedi Master and an unsung hero of the Clone Wars.