Literary notes about unbridled (AI summary)
In literature, “unbridled” is employed to evoke a state of complete absence of restraint, whether in the realm of emotion, behavior, or nature itself. Often it intensifies descriptions of raw passion or fury, as seen when characters are overwhelmed by their turbulent temperaments or desires [1, 2, 3]. Some writers use the term to transform vivid imagery—the wildness of free, unsaddled horses becomes a metaphor for a character’s untamed impulses [4]—while others apply it to notions of moral excess, linking unrestrained passion with both creative abandon and potential ruin [5, 6, 7]. In every use, “unbridled” powerfully underscores the dramatic clash between societal restraints and the chaos of instinct.
- They stopped to look at her, laughing, and began jesting with unbridled licentiousness.
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky - The prisoner, a man of turbulent and unbridled temper, has not insulted me.
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky - The desperate, unbridled fury in his eyes sent a chill to her heart.
— from The Red Debt: Echoes from Kentucky by Everett MacDonald - They unbridled their horses and tied them to trees.
— from The Blue Fairy Book by Andrew Lang - He opened his eyes, and into them came the unbridled anger of a kidnapped king.
— from The call of the wild by Jack London - “Sir Knight,” said Rebecca, “I would avoid reproaches—But what is more certain than that I owe my death to thine unbridled passion?”
— from Ivanhoe: A Romance by Walter Scott - My own spirits were high, and I bounded along with feelings of unbridled joy and hilarity.
— from Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
