Kevin Birmingham, a Harvard writing instructor, laid this point bare in his speech accepting the Truman Capote Literary Award last fall.
This video of a Chinese news report features a construction manager reassuring reporters that the park is well on its way to completion, while pointing to bare skeletons of infrastructure.
At some point, "bare-legged girls in bathing costumes" offered a pale approximation of the nearly nude shows of the Paris Folies.
The tall, thin man pointed at a bare bulb overhead.
Ms. Champagne pointed to a bare set of shrubs in front of the yellow house that people have been treating as a urinal.
Wayne McKethan, Granbury's city manager, pointed at a bare slab surrounded by debris, all that was left Thursday after a tornado tore through the Rancho Brazos subdivision.
If it were just the lift, or the catch, or the call, or the timing or the throw, then a finger can be pointed but the bare facts are that this set-piece has not functioned under pressure in the recent past and it's not because of one factor.
The view was mostly bare backsides — or, rather, as the painter John Currin pointed out, the same bare backside with different accessories.
As Mr. Powderly neared the museum's entrance, he jumped off the cycle and pointed it toward a bare stretch on a garage door across the street.
Birmingham's century-old mascot, marker and mutable metaphor will be complete again, astride Red Mountain, fixed up good as new -- his gaze aimed north, his bare behind pointed to a community to the south, once more justifying the ditty "Moon Over Homewood".
