unadorned

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Spiro favors crawling tempos and unadorned piano melodies, which leave more room for her husky voice.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 18, 2026

In “Enchanted Escape,” we see her ostentatiously unadorned Sèvres porcelain plates and silverware for the royal toilette, a pink neoclassical armchair for resting after doing very little.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 8, 2026

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.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 6, 2024

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

Many of the poorer newly arrived migrants preferred the more down-to-earth experience of smaller, unadorned storefront churches squeezed in among businesses on the commercial strips.

From "A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919" by Claire Hartfield