Unembellished

Bram's taste isn't for the obvious, and the images he's curated rarely display traditionally seductive or eye-catching gimmickry; landscapes are drably colored, ordinary people are shown in unembellished states of ordinariness. ❋ Larissa Archer (2011)

Here is a true story unembellished and told literally as it happened: ❋ Unknown (2009)

To the extent that he subjectively identifies himself with that group, his death will have meaning for him even if it is unembellished with any ‘individualized’ legitimations. ❋ James L. Kugel (2011)

Their unembellished form, which is partly indebted to the Romanian artist's interest in technology and the clear-cut tools found in industrial applications, is far from a cold perfectionism. ❋ Goran Mijuk (2011)

The usual sidemen, including Cardle co-composer Eg White, are on board, but have come up with 10 atypically direct, unembellished R&B/soul tracks. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Yesterday, I took a sheet of favored stationery -- crisp, white, unembellished -- and wrote to him to tell him how I feel. ❋ Katherine Rosman (2011)

Moe, for example, in his amateur naivete, believes that simply bringing the simple, unvarnished, unembellished “facts” to his audience is enough. ❋ Unknown (2010)

A great architect like Ludwig Mies van der Rohe could, in something like the Seagram Building, reduce the design to a simple, virtually unembellished shaft and still elicit from it a poetry all its own. ❋ James Gardner (2011)

Linda Evangelista strip down to their unembellished selves and into their next outfit. ❋ Unknown (2010)

A moment later he was off, replaced by Carol Ash, New York state's parks commissioner, whose unembellished manner the host seemed to prefer. ❋ Unknown (2010)

She drew inspiration from one of her idols, Billie Holiday, paring her singing to an unembellished minimum. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Situated on a high plateau, with an expansive view of big sky and golden grass, the Green Ranch house acted as a centerpiece for the pastoral grandeur of the unembellished landscape. ❋ Stefanie Powers (2010)

The color palette was muted — cobalt blue, grey and nude dominated — for his unembellished boyfriend blazers, cropped, tops, oversized trousers. ❋ Unknown (2010)