unvarnished
Example Sentences
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Our ears are always the ultimate arbiters, and hundreds of millions still bend to the song’s unvarnished, pure pleasure even now.
From Salon
What stands out in Annie is its relaxed, unvarnished portrait of student life: messy hostel rooms, friends lounging on charpoys smoking and arguing about everything from bureaucracy to exams, and a breezy irreverence toward authority.
From BBC
Besides, there’s ample evidence that unvarnished, off-the-cuff statements can hurt musicians more than they help.
From Salon
But as always, these writers-directors present an unvarnished look at life on the margins, following a group of adolescent mothers, some of them single.
From Los Angeles Times
In the 1970s McDonald made the FBI’s Top 10 Most Wanted list; yet the FBI never uncovered the information Mr. Toledo reveals, in unvarnished detail, in “Don’t Talk About Joe Mac.”
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