Sentence examples for lack of frills from inspiring English sources

There's just something very true and honest about that directness, that lack of frills.

He said he gives to the organization because of its low administrative costs and lack of frills.

All holidays need a little spirit of the blitz and my childhood holidays were consistent in their lack of frills.

But the appeal here is actually the lack of frills, which makes it very simple to quickly share clips with your friends.

It had the lack of frills and, indeed, comfort – no insulation, for example – that one would expect of that agency at that time.

But the draw, as ever, is the high musicianship, the lack of frills, and the searing soul-baring of the company's star, Soledad Barrio.

The Mach's industrial design won't bring home many rewards, but it's nice, well proportioned (at 12.2mm, it's pretty slim for a slider), and largely lacking of frills.

The novelist George Gissing (1857-1903), who quitted formal education at the same age as Mr Corbyn, was a terrifying polymath who spent his leisure reading the classics and philosophy, and embarked on feats of reading that would leave his modern-day equivalents ashamed by their lack of intellectual frills.

Balanchine was always interested in the stylistic Americanness of American ballet dancers — speed, eating up space, stepping off balance, a lack of upper-body frills — but here and in other ballets, including "Western Symphony" and "Who Cares?," he applied this directly to American subjects.

Color Air pioneered the low-cost business model in Norway, with a denser seating, no frills and lack of a frequent flyer program.

He wrote: "Although the Bold 9700 lacks the frills of an iPhone or Palm Pre, for utilitarian business users, it's one of the most polished smartphones on the market today".