The phrase "a bare statement" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a statement that is straightforward, lacking embellishment or detail.
Example: "His response was just a bare statement of the facts, without any additional commentary."
Alternatives: "a simple statement" or "a plain statement".
But each expert interviewed last week found something to disagree with even in that bare statement.
"Deeply shocking though it is, the bare statement that Shipman has killed over 200 patients does not fully reflect the enormity of his crimes," Dame Janet said.
But virtue, by the bare statement of its actions, can so affect men's minds as to create at once both admiration of the things done and desire to imitate the doers of them.
"No bare statement conveys the magnitude and impact of these results.... Fischer sowed devastation".
The installation is basically a bare-bones statement of the practical fact that anyone who wants to participate in shaping the communications media that are shaping the world at large can do so.
In a bare-bones statement, the companies announced yesterday that they had signed a letter under which the Times Company would buy out the Post Company's 50percentt share.
It deals not in secrets but in bare statements and instruction.
"I wanted to play with the idea of youth, which for me means a bare face with one statement, like a drawn-on eyebrow or a matte black eye.
Dressed in olive drab military fatigues, Schalit sat in a chair in front of a bare wall reading a prepared statement tucked behind an Arabic-language newspaper, displayed to show the date, Sept. 14.
Principle theories, on the other hand, start from empirical principles, i.e. general statements of empirical regularities, employing no or only a bare minimum of theoretical terms.
