bareness

Example Sentences

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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

“The simplicity and bareness of the storytelling means the details are important. They can drive tension as much as a big bomb.”

From Los Angeles Times • May 13, 2017

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

His version of the story may be better than mine because of its bareness, not twisted into designs.

From "The Woman Warrior" by Maxine Hong Kingston