英:['ʌnɪm'belɪʃt]
美:[ˌʌnɪm'belɪʃt]
英:['ʌnɪm'belɪʃt]
美:[ˌʌnɪm'belɪʃt]
Adjective
1. lacking stylistic embellishment;
"a literal description"
"wrote good but plain prose"
"a plain unadorned account of the coronation"
"a forthright unembellished style"
2. lacking embellishment or ornamentation;
"a plain hair style"
"unembellished white walls"
"functional architecture featuring stark unornamented concrete"
The first known use of unembellished was in 1630
1 In editing the diaries and notebooks, von Plata said she aimed to offer an unembellished look at the author, without glossing over the darker aspects of her personality and beliefs.
2 Relatively unembellished news — with less opinion or agenda — seems to be holding its own.
3 Still, for all of Mutter’s virtuosic exploits, it was odd that she left Vivaldi’s solo parts completely unembellished, and only veteran harpsichordist Knut Johannessen provided some baroque performance practice flair on the continuo part.
4 So it’s urgent that the unembellished tomatoes and juice are just right.
5 Anderson always maintains a level of detachment toward his characters, letting you see their unembellished flaws, both insignificant and defining.
6 She plans to restock with ’90s-era monastic pieces from Donna Karan and Ghost, the British label known for its flowing, unembellished shapes.
7 His appeal lies in his directness – the sparse, unembellished prose that can make his meticulous stage directions unexpected.
8 It has moments of unembellished realism as well as a fictional story line that runs through the bedlam.
9 Acra said her own favorite may have been a relatively unembellished but very striking vermilion gown with the sides cut out.
10 The academy’s regulations are a bit like the Talmud: maddeningly specific in certain places — mailings about a film may include only “an unembellished, creditless synopsis” — and vague in others.
11 The result is a portrait of existence at its most unembellished.
12 The pullover jerseys featured an alternating series of horizontal stripes, rendered in shades of orange, yellow and red, the word Astros spelled out above in clean, unembellished sans serif letterforms.
13 You know where this “Dangerous Minds”-style drama is heading, and, at more than 2½ hours, it takes too long to get there, particularly in the unembellished production at Baltimore’s Strand Theater.
14 Rooted in an unembellished documentary aesthetic, the fictional framework of Covi’s screenplay and the nimble camerawork by Frimmel capture Gemma’s chic Trastevere day-to-day as well as the family’s working-class realities — hustles both, in different ways.
15 With drinks, you are served one little bowl of unembellished chickpeas and another overflowing with unseasoned croutons.
16 The lines are clean, and the designs are unembellished and minimal.
17 The plastic back of the tablet, while prone to smudges, is wonderfully unembellished, and a metal frame accentuates its fancy feel.
18 Their last album, I and Love and You, contained a heartstopping gem in its title track, whose plain language and unembellished music added up to something greater than its parts.
19 Even better is the chance to hear old songs performed unembellished.
20 For the office, you’ll need a simple base, something unembellished that doesn’t reveal too much skin.