unembellished

Stark, unembellished numbers often can prove to be a force in politics.

A notable exception, however, was what my grandmother referred to with unembellished frankness as her "cucumbers and sour cream."

The academy’s regulations are a bit like the Talmud: maddeningly specific in certain places — mailings about a film may include only “an unembellished, creditless synopsis” — and vague in others.

A detailed chronology of the tragedy is relayed in the unembellished Netflix documentary “The Volcano: Rescue from Whakaari,” which hinges on interviews with a handful of survivors and people involved in the rescue missions.

Zen celebrated antisocial characters, such as the rustic Chinese poet Hanshan — known as Kanzan in Japanese, or Cold Mountain in English — whose unembellished verse was, so the legend goes, scrawled on tree trunks and rocks.