Literary notes about unrestrained (AI summary)
In literature, "unrestrained" is frequently used to evoke a sense of wild abandon or ungoverned passion, whether in human behavior, natural phenomena, or political forces. Authors use it to describe emotions pouring forth without inhibition—as in tears that fall unrestrained [1][2] or laughter that bursts forth with vivid energy [3][4]—as well as actions or forces operating beyond conventional limits, such as the unbridled will of tyrants [5] or the unchecked liberty of political association [6][7]. It also appears to characterize the essence of nature and creativity, suggesting that when boundaries are cast aside, both art and life can flourish or unravel with a raw intensity [8][9].
- Tears, unrestrained, fell from my brother's eyes; a sense of mortal agony crept over my frame.
— from Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley - Her thoughts wandered back over her old life again and her tears flowed unrestrained.
— from The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today by Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner - and rolling his head from side to side, as if in unrestrained enjoyment of his freedom and drollery.
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens - "The little rogue!" murmured Archibald, and then broke into one of those unrestrained laughs which he usually reserved for his own witticisms.
— from Cleo The Magnificent; Or, The Muse of the Real: A Novel by Louis Zangwill - There was no justice, there was no right, anywhere in it—it was only force, it was tyranny, the will and the power, reckless and unrestrained!
— from The Jungle by Upton Sinclair - But the unrestrained liberty of political association cannot be entirely assimilated to the liberty of the press.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 1 by Alexis de Tocqueville - I said in the former part of this work, "The unrestrained liberty of political association cannot be entirely assimilated to the liberty of the press.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 2 by Alexis de Tocqueville - It seemed as if New England was a region given up to the dreams of fancy and the unrestrained experiments of innovators.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 1 by Alexis de Tocqueville - For nature makes us free and unrestrained, but we bind and confine immure and force ourselves into small and scanty space.
— from Plutarch's Morals by Plutarch
