Mickey Maudlin, the executive editor of HarperOne, described it as refreshingly devoid of polemics.
It's a novel of ideas, but one refreshingly devoid of windbaggery.
She was refreshingly devoid of the voyeurism common to many prison visitors.
Dr Anita Biswas, one of the country's top sports doctors, is refreshingly devoid of the usual squeamishness which accompanies discussions of menstruation.
(Among them, its prospectus was refreshingly devoid of high-flown puffery about how it is changing the world, unlike those of Facebook and Google).
What is most revelatory, finally, is Kijak's interview with the reclusive artist himself, who is articulate, earnest, and refreshingly devoid of self-mythologizing gloom.
"And if I need to think I rake rocks". The towns themselves have an authentic, survivalist quality refreshingly devoid of slick, trendy accouterment.
Spare and refreshingly devoid of sentimentality, Mr. Gilroy's play presents the women as whole human beings with long histories and associations, not just as grief-ravaged victims of the war.
It turns out he assumes incorrectly, and by the end of his health odyssey he has whittled 20-odd pounds and many percentage points of body fat off his frame with a diet that is refreshingly devoid of gimmicks and commercial sponsorship.
The charming mini peasant loaf has a fermented, dense crumb, and is served with an aromatic olive oil that's refreshingly devoid of descriptors on the menu — this is not the kind of place to serve unprovenanced olive oil, but it also has the good manners not to brag.
Visits to Hatullcha Salt Hotel can be arranged by Tupiza Tours (tupizatours.com/eng/programas_info.php) Alex lives in Telford The judge: Alastair Sawday, of Sawday's (sawdays.co.uk), which recommends special places to stay, said: "I found the winner amusing, refreshingly devoid of cliché and very evocative".
