Benioff has down pat the art of writing the kind of unadorned, direct prose that buoys a story along. From Wordnik.com. [City of Thieves: Summary and book reviews of City of Thieves by David Benioff.] Reference
NET binary packages, you may be better off using Team Foundation Build "unadorned". From Wordnik.com. [Elegant Code] Reference
Its surface was porous, unadorned, too smooth to climb. From Wordnik.com. [It Could Be Anything] Reference
Together, they were beautifully plain, unadorned and true. From Wordnik.com. [Lake Chelan] Reference
Now that we've heard Neil Diamond unadorned, we're believers. From Wordnik.com. [DIAMOND IN THE ROUGH] Reference
They seemed stumpy and apologetic, unadorned with any jewelry. From Wordnik.com. [While on Vacation in Rome] Reference
The walls were a flat metallic gray, unadorned and windowless. From Wordnik.com. [The Highest Treason] Reference
It wants facts stated in plain, unvarnished, unadorned language. From Wordnik.com. [How to Speak and Write Correctly] Reference
I prefer the unadorned garb of the civilian -- and independence. From Wordnik.com. [In Her Own Right] Reference
Small, slim, unadorned timepieces capture the mood of the moment. From Wordnik.com. [Nothing But Time] Reference
It is not invariably true that "beauty unadorned is most adorned.". From Wordnik.com. [Etiquette] Reference
The blouse fell open, exposing round white breasts -- unadorned, blind. From Wordnik.com. [It Could Be Anything] Reference
The exterior is unadorned, and supported by plain receding flying buttresses. From Wordnik.com. [The South of France—East Half] Reference
The unadorned translations of George Long will serve to introduce us to these. From Wordnik.com. [A Handbook of Ethical Theory] Reference
Sometimes it is necessary to tell the unadorned truth, -- the woman is to blame. From Wordnik.com. [The Eugenic Marriage, Vol 2 (of 4) A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies] Reference
The modest, unadorned title gives no hint of the long and varied career it covers. From Wordnik.com. [David Wolper obituary] Reference
It is when it is unadorned that the ugly little instrument gives its best service. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of Business Etiquette] Reference
There are four rows of small, unadorned and rather dingy cubicles, five in each row. From Wordnik.com. [Holding The 911 Line] Reference
Her hands were long and slender, unadorned with rings; she simply didn't care for them. From Wordnik.com. [Old Valentines A Love Story] Reference
And try to help some troubled soul … It lifted above us, soared throaty and unadorned and perfect. From Wordnik.com. [To Be A Child (Part III of III)] Reference
Each unadorned car window and door became the frame of pictures not a Millet nor a Rembrandt could depict. From Wordnik.com. [The Greater Love] Reference
Her prose may be unadorned, but her way with naming people and things reveals a quirky and original talent. From Wordnik.com. [Why Harry's Hot] Reference
Smooth and substantial, the pieces come unadorned, though English leather pads can be added to the bottoms. From Wordnik.com. [The Maximalist] Reference
Mr. Christie was direct, unadorned: You can't tax your way out of a spending problem, you've got to stop spending. From Wordnik.com. [Try a Little Tenderness] Reference
And not only are the shows of modern sculpture, but of objects of unpainted, unadorned, blackish and brownish metal. From Wordnik.com. [Sculpture For The Soul] Reference
It's nearly impossible to find an album with more unadorned elegance than "Made the Harbor" by Vermont's Mountain Man. From Wordnik.com. [Review of Mountain Man's album ÂMade the Harbor'] Reference
In front, there is the statue itself contrasted by the plainness and simplicity of the unadorned side of the pedestal. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor, Vol. I, No. 4, April 1810] Reference
From the start, P built the No Limit brand with unadorned, claustrophobic gangsta tales, the less glamorous the better. From Wordnik.com. [The New Gangsta On The Block] Reference
If nothing else does, that should remind us why our society so urgently needs people willing to bear unadorned witness. From Wordnik.com. [War And Remembrance] Reference
Revealingly, neither Kate Moss or her model agency were pleased with the photographs, finding them too raw and unadorned. From Wordnik.com. [Corinne Day: she added grit to the glamour of fashion photography] Reference
If ever there were a place in which myth was unseemly and unnecessary, where fact could be left unadorned, it would be Auschwitz. From Wordnik.com. [A Tortured Legacy] Reference
They met at Rove's unadorned house in northwest Washington on Saturday, Dec. 13, 2003, the day Saddam Hussein was captured in Iraq. From Wordnik.com. [INNER CIRCLE] Reference
But Meirelles, who shot "City" entirely on location in Rio's favelas, simply lets the camera roll, often in long, jittery, unadorned takes. From Wordnik.com. [Suffocating In The Slums] Reference
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