unacted

First up, the breaking news: On the eve of a memorial for 13 people massacred at Fort Hood, Texas, we have new information about their alleged killer and his ties to a notorious recruiter for global jihad, sobering new questions, as well, about warning signs that may have gone unacted on.

CNN Transcript Nov 9, 2009 2009

But even if we do now begin to make good on our word-the unacted-upon American words that have come out of an endless series of these conferences over the past several years-the Bosnia-conference phenomenon will rate two paragraphs in history of its own.

The Conference Dodge 2008

Sooner murder an infant in its cradle than nurse unacted desires.

The Marriage of Heaven and Hell 2008

So if you happen to be nursing any unacted desires, now would be the time.

PodCastle » 2008 » September 2008

So if you happen to be nursing any unacted desires, now would be the time.

PodCastle » PodCastle Miniature 012: The Fable of the Tyrannosaurus Rex 2008

Sooner murder an infant in its cradle than nurse unacted desires.

The Marriage of Heaven and Hell 2008

One Charlie died offpage, an infant in his crib (calling to mind William Blake's proverb from either heaven or hell, I forget which, that it is better to murder an infant in its cradle than to nurse an unacted desire).

ccfinlay: More Dead Charlies ccfinlay 2005

At that she revived, like a girl in a garden in white, among roses, who came running to meet him — an unacted part.

Between the Acts 2004

Each still acted the unacted part conferred on them by their clothes.

Between the Acts 2004

She answered my reasonings more briefly, declaring with disdain, that the reason was hers; and, until I could persuade her that the past could be unacted, that maturity could go back to the cradle, and that all that was could become as though it had never been, it was useless to assure her that no real change had taken place in her fate.

The Last Man 2003