The unresting movements of the heavens and the water correspond to the unceasing power of the hydraulic machine and, by extension, to the unceasing power of the emperor. |
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. |
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. |
In the final stanza we get the withheld word, but it upbraids us by being even lovelier than anticipated: Yet still the unresting castles thresh In fullgrown thickness every May. |
The legend of the Flying Dutchman is as old as Homer, who showed us Ulysses as an unresting traveler, yearning for home and domestic joys. |
The argument may have fallen silent, and yet the implications of unresting climate science grow ever closer. |