Sentence examples for relieved only by from inspiring English sources
This section is relieved only by Woodley's presence.
The dark background is relieved only by the apocalyptic purplish glow above the low horizon.
The solid black presence of the sheet metal is relieved only by accenting side and hood vents.
That's an awful lot of awful games relieved only by escaping regularly to call college basketball for ESPN.
Accordingly, they live in a state of blissful torpor relieved only by bursts of paranoia or stimulant-induced frenzy.
The end of the war against the Soviets, he said, led to anarchy, which was relieved only by the Taliban.
Snatches of songs punctuate the action in "Charles Dickens's Oliver Twist," but this is not a predominantly upbeat show like Lionel Bart's musical "Oliver!" The poverty, social hypocrisy and violence that rule Oliver's world here are relieved only intermittently by streaks of dark humor and, of course, by the boy's miraculous deliverance.
The sincere tone of Eric H. Weinberger's 90-minute script is relieved only occasionally by humor.
And if Wagner's music has a relentless grandeur, Elton John's score for "The Lion King" is relentlessly anodyne, and relieved only rarely by allusions to African vocal music.A minor technical hitch in the "Lion King" performance seen by this reviewer generated a kind of sympathetic warmth among the audience otherwise precluded by the impressive production machine.
There is nothing refined, however, about the frantic opening of Schumann's Piano Sonata No 2. Uchida's manic intensity in this and the final rondo was terrifying to behold, relieved only momentarily by her deliciously liquid reading of the song-like andantino.
That harvest fell short of its goal, and the mill episode, which is the climax of "The Initials of the Earth," concludes with a sense of sadness and general exhaustion, relieved only mildly by the hero's reflection that "they had produced more sugar than the companies in their greatest harvests and that they had done it with a large dose of craziness, but without hunger or the whip".
