Documentaries on surfing often have a compelling, unadorned quality.
His characters stand unadorned, flawed and imperfect, struggling for but not always finding redemption.
In unadorned prose that echoes its characters' unadorned lives, this novel records a season of changes great and small in an isolated town on the high plains of Colorado.
Her character's theology is unadorned.
To describe his poor family's character Earley chooses basic, unadorned details: "Our clothes were clean.
His first novel, Williwaw (1946), which was based on his wartime experiences, was praised by the critics, and his third novel, The City and the Pillar (1948), shocked the public with its direct and unadorned examination of a homosexual main character.
The limestone walls of the roofless nave rise dizzyingly overhead massive, unadorned and austere, in keeping with the Norman character.
Their methods included the casting of nonprofessional actors, often portraying characters close to their real selves; the use of unadorned, specific locations and an absorption in the ordinary details of work, school and domesticity.
They are unaccompanied by a byline and have the character of a wire service report brief, informative, and unadorned.
Though the novel moves towards a suite of surprising and unsettling revelations about the characters, the real strengths of the book are in Cercas's unadorned prose, once again deftly translated by Anne McLean, and in his ear for the rhythms of everyday speech.
Critics have praised the author's stark, unadorned style, his psychological penetration, his narrative skill, and his ability to create authentic characters and realistic dialogue.
