unadorned

There’s a certain theatrical quality to “The Return” and an unadorned beauty to the simplicity of the filmmaking, relying on the aesthetics of nature and the palace location where this chamber piece is set.

I ended up going pretty retro and unadorned, ordering a grilled cheese and fries, but the grilled cheese happened to have a bacon jam on it.

“Because of high interest rates,” he said, “there’s no mobility out of rental situations to buy homes. Everyone is stuck — homeowners with golden handcuffs, renters basically with unadorned handcuffs.”

Two songs released in advance, “The Thing at Hand” and “New Bible,” are starkly unadorned musical close-ups.

The music producer Philip Weinrobe, who has known Lenker for nearly a decade, described her unadorned, crisp singing as “so honest and so true.”