rawest

That had been sport in its rawest form without a penny at stake.

Spines twist deeply, as if wringing out the torso could also unleash the rawest pain.

It’s genuinely therapeutic to just peel back all the layers and say the rawest, realest version of your truth.

In “Anatomy of a Fall,” even the rawest of emotional truths turn out to be booby-trapped, and the ever-thin boundaries between life and art are repeatedly violated.

Both, says Nagourney, “were calculating and ruthless when they needed to be and capable of the rawest candor — characteristics that would help lift them to the top of the newsroom.”