Sans frills

Usage examples of unadorned.

The first black shape was the sail of a submarine, vertical and unadorned, with a slight angling fillet bringing it to the deck of the cylindrical shape, the sail identical to that of his old Seawolf, but the hull now appearing beneath the sail too small in diameter to belong to a Seawolf-class.

The doors to the procreation center slid open at their approach, revealing a foyer that was stark and unadorned, illuminated by lighting fixtures set in a double helix pattern in the ceiling.

Her gown, which was of white sarsenet, with a pink body, and long sleeves, buttoned tightly round her wrists, was unadorned by the frills of lace or knots of floss with which young ladies of fashion usually embellished their dresses.

She was dressed plainly as a widow, in unadorned black silk that had no shine on it, the cut of the dress simple, the corset to which the bodice was stitched rigid and straight, the neckline square and not low.

A woman in an unadorned brown dress stood up from one of the rearmost couches.

Then she put on a simple set of underthings, brand new, and of unadorned white silk.

The smooth, unadorned stick of wood in her hand pulsed with force, and two white bolts, trailing tails as if they were tiny falling stars, leapt from it.

Like the others, he wore a robe of unadorned white linen, so finespun it was nearly transparent.

But both men and women alike were bare-chested, and the footgear of choice was an unadorned cross-gartered sandal.

In his gauntleted hand was an unadorned shield, this the source of the holy light.

Or the harpsichordist who works his way through the twenty-nine Goldberg Variations before arriving at the final, pure, unadorned truth Bach intended.

Most of the civic poets were radicals of some kind or other, but one of the first and best was the Slavophil Ivan Aksakov, whose publicistic poems written in the forties and fifties, in which he calls the Russian intellectual to work and discipline, and inveighs against his Oblomov,and-Rudin ineffectiveness and sloth, are admirable for their unadorned and straightforward strength.

Everything here was clean, uncluttered, unadorned and utterly satisfying in its Spartan rigor.

Now she recalled the smooth ashwood staff, plain and unadorned, that had nonetheless become her most treasured possession.

Polished, also, were the unadorned hilts of their broadswords and the light axes dangling from their saddlebows.