unadorned

Example Sentences

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In other hands, a film of such unadorned fatalism might seem useless, an exercise in emotional sadism.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 26, 2026

Joseph navigated those years in the wake with unadorned reverence, while starting a family of his own and directing some of the most transcendent music videos of the 2010s.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 4, 2026

His direct, unadorned vocals on 1961’s “You Better Move On” started an explosion of gospel-inflected Muscle Shoals pop, from Jimmy Hughes’s “Steal Away” to his cousin Percy Sledge’s “When a Man Loves a Woman.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 20, 2025

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.

From Salon • May 21, 2024

She saw that his hand had moved and was stroking the wide unadorned section of fabric, the section of the cloth that fell across the Singer’s shoulders.

From "Gathering Blue" by Lois Lowry