It is without pretence or pretensions.
"I like that song," he says, without pretence.
The buzz: "This is freak-rock, nursed on psychedelia and prog, but without pretence".
He is a man without pretence – not even a tracksuit manager, but a jeans-and-T-shirt trainer.
Freaky though the music may be, it's delivered without pretence as Byrne tackles the subject of – cue the worst word of modern times – "curating" London's Meltdown festival.
In J'Aimerais Bien Etre Mon Chien, Frederik Mey admits that sometimes he wishes that he could be his dog, and live his life without pretence.
In other words, France must have "a balanced policy, without pretence or hypocrisy .In this section Why Gerhard Schröder has gone out on a limb Back to square one A new balance Unusually tight End of an era?
Like the other restaurants on El Hierro, the food is entirely without pretence: when you order queso y tomate, that's what you get – a plate of sliced cheese and tomato, without garnish.
Honest, at ease in his skin, without pretence, he turned a moving story of his immigrant parents into the reason why he is drawn to give back to British society some of what its welcome gave to all of them.
Instead, he wrote Madonna in a Fur Coat, conjuring up a time and a place in which it was possible to be true to one's nature, with air to breathe, and to live and love without pretence, if only for a brief period.
To older generations Turner will always be the scorching, duplicitous redhead in Body Heat and Prizzi's Honor, but she shows herself now without pretence at nearly 60, happily slutting about the stage in shapeless jeans and lumberjack shirt, playing whiskey-swilling California trailer trash Maude.
