Stan Bruiser, the mayor, is a thug of the first order, with "a scarred face set like concrete, sweat running down from his hairy skull over his lumpy forehead and onto his exposed brown teeth," which he tends to bare "like those of a savage dog".
Office finishes tend to be bare floors and to have more collaboration space, shareable workstations and bright color palettes rather than the conservative oak and marble finishes and corner offices favored by law firms.
Likewise, hard rock surfaces and steep slopes from which soils wash or blow away tend to remain bare.
Her stages tend to be stripped bare, so that all of these background systems to which she is so deliciously attuned can bubble up, uninterrupted, unadorned.
Most school-maintained Web sites tend to be bare-bones -- generally a collection of e-mail exchanges, contact numbers, directions, sports schedules and Board of Education minutes.
Given Dell'Arte's emphasis on the voice, its productions tend to be bare-bones, as Victoria Crutchfield's was here: a few props, a few costumes, all with an easygoing mix of ancient Rome and contemporary America.
Perhaps it is counting on satnav firms to roll out fancier apps to complement its own offerings, which tend to provide the bare essentials that appeal to the largest audience.
After harvesting, maize fields tend to be left bare until the following spring, without the dense stubble that helps to protect the soil after other cereal crops have been cut.
The limestone areas of southern France tend to be swept almost bare of soil by erosion; the soil then collects in valleys and hollows.
