bareness

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The subjects are seated on sets that are celestial-looking in their angular bareness, and nearly all are photographed with ghostly shadows cast across their faces.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 7, 2026

Together they found a bright apartment and countered the bareness with cheery posters and tags labeling everything in English: lamp, cupboard, wall, door.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 30, 2016

But the Atacama’s bareness is deceptive, for just below the desert’s silky dunes and its moonscapes of salt and hardened lava sit Chile’s lifeblood—millions of tons of copper reserves.

From Slate • Nov. 13, 2015

The bareness of the restaurant, the pounding gangsta rap and the menu of unreconstructed Korean stews speaks to an extremely specific Koreatown experience.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 3, 2014

To our ears, accustomed to the subsequent six hundred years of harmony, there’s something missing that accounts for the bareness of sound.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall