The Model 3 is unadorned except for the Tesla badge.
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Ingalls writes fables whose unadorned sentences belie their irreducible strangeness.
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Unadorned, the struggle for power has a tendency to become barbaric.
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Her soprano was chillingly pure when unadorned, and heartwarming with vibrato.
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He keeps the tone calm and unadorned for the most part.
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Clint Eastwood's unadorned, no-nonsense style is perfect for this particular job.
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Constance reaches into her pocket for her key: a single key, unadorned.
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Yet Dinklage, unadorned by any prosthesis, has a handsome but unexceptional nose.
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The instructions were unadorned and straightforward, but the delivery was eye-catching.
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To avoid snags, your hands should be unadorned, with fingernails cut short.
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The song reverts to its original unadorned strum, and she wilts, defeated.
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Talusan describes such experiences with unadorned prose that conveys a startling specificity.
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The fish is unadorned, so what you serve it with really matters.
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"Patchett's prose is confident, unfussy and unadorned," our critic Parul Sehgal writes.
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Standard rooms are simple and unadorned, and look more like snow caves.
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That's unfortunate, because it would be great if justice unadorned could reign.
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Instead of a decorated tree, the holiday calls for an unadorned aluminum pole.
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The tomb itself looked plain and unadorned, its top separated down the middle.
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Until mid-March, the wall was a vast expanse of unadorned white marble.
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His language is largely unadorned; then again, embellishment is neither needed nor wanted.
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And Ms. Lewis, regally unadorned, doesn't comment on what she's doing: It's natural.
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She also explains that this unadorned, amorphous-seeming movement has been carefully arranged.
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Ms. Towira's shooting style is efficient and relatively unadorned in the first half.
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The sentences are short and unadorned; each one advances story or reveals character.
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Their DNA is an unadorned circular molecule between 2.03,22.0 and 29m genetic "letters" long.
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Others prefer to keep their heads unadorned aside from the occasional utilitarian bobby pin.
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Here's the essence of Apple's grammar rules: its product names should be entirely unadorned.
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Immaculate in its unadorned plainness, at certain moments his prose achieves a crystalline beauty.
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For extra oomph, the rest of the face was generally left clean and unadorned.
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With such unadorned components, the dish depends on a precise texture for its impact.
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The first public-housing developments were often simple and unadorned brick rowhouses or duplexes.
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Under the glare of unadorned florescent lights, it might as well have been January.
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"Distant Constellation" maintains an unadorned purity at the expense of quite a bit else.
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This unadorned brick feature drops straight to the dark slate floor, without a hearth.
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Classics like skee ball are also available unadorned and timeless (really, who messes with perfection?).
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Even the unadorned equations of relativity do not predict that the universe's expansion is accelerating.
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Yet his language is unadorned and accessible; nothing gets in the way of the story.
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Walmart's cheap selection, though simple and unadorned, was the better choice for home shopping overall.
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Cold metal and buttons, fluorescent lights and sleek displays, jumpsuits and wholly unadorned living spaces.
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The walls are unadorned, and the only occupants are two large sculptures, both "Untitled" (2008).
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The poet speaks in unadorned verses like an orator with a soapbox under his feet.
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"Talusan describes such experiences with unadorned prose that conveys a startling specificity," Jennifer Szalai writes.
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Mr. Lipton sat across from his guests at a simple table on an unadorned stage.
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A colorfully decorated Christmas tree again stood near the entrance of her mostly unadorned apartment.
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So I scanned the pews each week looking for someone with an unadorned ring finger.
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We found Fehmeeda at her house, kneeling on the floor of an unadorned main room.
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Mr. Adès's nod to tradition begins with the title of the piece — unadorned and unpoetic.
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"The Chuck Taylor, there's an iconic logo on the side, but otherwise it's unadorned," he says.
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He picks up another egg and places the yolk on the last unadorned spot of ricotta.
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Perhaps we can be inspired by these paintings and get to a place of unadorned necessity.
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Ms. Johnson makes unadorned, soundly structured, musically adept ballets for a lovely, unpretentious group of dancers.
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This past March, eight female Iranian models were arrested for revealing their unadorned heads on Instagram.
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It's minimal and unadorned, sort of confrontational in its apparent lack of artifice: This is me.
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Unadorned greenery, simple rustic touches and carefully curated decorations are replacing the usual baubles and bells.
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Mr. Rahmati browns the meat unadorned, then works in salt, pepper, crushed coriander seeds and cilantro.
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F-15E Strike Eagles from the 389th Fighter Squadron arrived in southwest Asia with unadorned noses.
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Facing this unadorned hate tears open wounds from atrocities that we have confronted throughout our history.
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The pages of a large Gospel, lying on the unadorned wooden coffin, fluttered in the breeze.
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They can be unadorned, or may have small additions of tomato, or a handful of orzo.
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The walls remain largely unadorned, art being another challenge in a place that's so precisely engineered.
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But, running around an unadorned court in service-issue whites, that's all he looks: good at tennis.
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I found myself wishing that Bullock's masterly rendition of "Dichterliebe" had been granted the same unadorned treatment.
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They're fiction in a plain-spoken, observational, unadorned style that doesn't really exist in American TV drama.
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He describes countless scenes of terror, disgust, insanity and stupidity in prose that is lucid and unadorned.
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Olafsson's sparse, unadorned language intensifies an understanding that this story is indirectly about those who are voiceless.
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Bethany Hegedus's unadorned text leans on the words "right" and "fair," notions that informed Carter's entire life.
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Oliver was a widely popular writer whose grounded, unadorned writing style resonated with people across the globe.
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Her poems, which are built of unadorned language and accessible imagery, have a pedagogical, almost homiletic quality.
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Unadorned with anything but a light finish, Feher allows the subtleties of the stain and grain to shine.
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Sitting in an unadorned campaign office, the pair work the phones to charm donors and motivate campaign workers.
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The ceiling is significantly higher here, with unadorned columns, topped by rings of recessed, lighting dominating the space.
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Surprisingly, we found a small selection of regular clothing that was unadorned with pop culture embellishments or references.
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Speaking to us of time and memory, autumn and decay, he is given to a certain unadorned drama.
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Sanders's speech underlined the rationale for his candidacy: unadorned class warfare in the service of saving American democracy.
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They all tend to wear unadorned, corset-less garments, "Reformkleider," which were in fashion amid Vienna's artistic circle.
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The writer and director, Keith Behrman, attractively lights and films his characters, who speak in refreshingly unadorned dialogue.
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Her unadorned and humble subjects possess a rare grace in this world of expensive overproduction and self-declaimed greatness.
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It's a fairly straightforward guitar ballad, mostly unadorned by the elements that songs inevitably pick up in the studio.
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Finally, you ascend handsome, unadorned oak staircases to either of two halls: a large auditorium or a chamber space.
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The flag waved unadorned, just black and white, with a word that seemed to invade all my senses: lynched.
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Hansen has an abiding interest in the tension between a historical figure's publicized persona and the private, unadorned self.
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The Bauhaus was top of the list, and Johnson, too, fell hard for Gropius's unadorned facades and industrial fenestration.
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The visuals and especially the locations do a lot of work, pulling you in with their unadorned natural beauty.
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His unadorned sonic textures, often based on Greek modes and Gregorian chant, can have the quality of cryptic icons.
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These sections are written in an unadorned prose that nicely contrasts with the intense rhetoric of Pizan's own narration.
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Piles of brightly colored African fabrics are strewn across tables, in contrast to the unadorned white walls of the office.
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Murkowski, like the room itself, was notably unadorned (although Murkowski, unlike the room, is photogenic); in Alaska, accessibility trumps formality.
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We have therefore chosen this one—schematic and unadorned, almost skeletal—to represent them all in this game of chairs.
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Led by the indomitable Ms. Vokes, these characters — photographed in steady, unadorned close-ups by Benjamin Kracun — are natural storytellers.
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You know perfumed flesh, in anklets, and spirit, unadorned, take turns at lead and follow, one in action and repose.
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"What really helped those albums translate to a broader audience was that the songs were really unadorned," Mr. Isbell said.
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I don't know about underdressed, but "Matthias and Maxime" definitely feels more unadorned and stripped-down than your previous films.
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If you're reading this while seated on a simple, unadorned sofa or chair, these are the men you should thank.
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There was no ostentatious bling on the unadorned bridal dress Ms. Markle wore, designed by Clare Waight Keller for Givenchy.
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But this year, high temperatures broke a more than century-old record and left the streets unadorned by white flakes.
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One of its lodestars is Mr. Tiernan's homage to St. John's famously unadorned dish of marrow bones with parsley salad.
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The décor is spare but not unadorned, with art on the walls and bare tables topped with concrete or wood.
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She wore a flounced Kenzo dress in a bright yellow rosebud pattern over an otherwise unadorned black turtleneck and boots.
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It's a nice mix of British and American folk influences — gorgeous and unadorned, just two guitars and Shelley's hypnotic voice.
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If an illegitimate news story makes it into your Bing search results (or Google, for that matter), it'll still appear unadorned.
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But Mr. Andrew's best styles, at least to this judge, were the unadorned lace-up derbies sitting on chunky lug soles.
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We split a plain belgian waffle from a street vendor, Vöffluvagninn, and it was spectacularly crispy and sweet, despite being unadorned.
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She had an unadorned but likable averageness that didn't seem to get in the way of her clear, natural performer's gift.
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Hildegard Bechtler's set is unadorned, save for rows of studio microphones that hang oppressively from above, as if recording every word.
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"Told You So" soars over spidery Afropop guitar and excitable drums as Williams's voice slips between unadorned yell and robotic vocoder.
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The communication is not of unadorned data, but of the more important items in the phenomenological garden: feelings, ideas, experiences, longings.
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The resentments Hochschild presents are unadorned, and they have mutated into a broader suspicion of almost everything the federal government does.
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Fast, overlapping and unadorned, their conversations touch on ordinary teenage topics and on worldly suffering far removed from their protected enclave.
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"Hiroshima" is told entirely in an unadorned, omniscient third-person voice, which is why it's often called the first nonfiction novel.
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His costume is a unitard that has no sequins, giving Chen the unadorned athletic look of a bobsledder or speed skater.
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"The filmmaking is seamless, unadorned, transparent, the better to serve Mr. Smith's warm expressiveness," Manohla Dargis wrote in her Times review.
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We were sitting in Liang's modest, unadorned office, drinking tea, and as I spoke he cocked his head in apparent puzzlement.
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S.K.U. launched 10 years ago with a basic concept: to produce unadorned men's wear that was "purposeful," as Mullen puts it.
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WASHINGTON — Scott Lloyd's unadorned job title betrays little hint of the power he has over the pregnant teenagers in his custody.
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Yet one would be forgiven for overlooking the unadorned brick-and-glass facade; the house doesn't give up its secrets easily.
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At least one dessert actually was simple in the normal sense of the word: a clean-tasting lemon tart served unadorned.
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The magazine has adopted the unadorned, point-and-shoot aesthetic made famous by American Apparel ads and fashion photographers like Terry Richardson.
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Indifferent to cultural norms, they were committed to capturing exactly what they saw in its stark, unadorned, and, to some, shocking essence.
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But now, exposed to Damian Hirst's pill bottles, people are more open to looking at unadorned objects as works worthy of attention.
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Snapchat popularized this style of chat, which can feel more fun, inspired and vivid than messaging with just text or unadorned images.
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She smiles warmly at Susanna, sung by the soprano Lucía Martín Cartón with unadorned, celestial purity that later turned to emotive exasperation.
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Working with the design firm Studio g & a, they used bright wallpaper, big art and colorful carpets to decorate the unadorned space.
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And the album begins and ends with songs that back her with a guitar and little else, a signal of unadorned openness.
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The 178-square-foot Atticus, with a bedroom, bath, kitchen and sleeping loft, is wood-sided and -paneled in classic, unadorned style.
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The bracelets and rings in his first collection were clean and unadorned — like gestural brush strokes worn across a wrist or finger.
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NJPW is so stripped down that what feels strangest and most exotic about it is just how straightforward and unadorned it all is.
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First, she equates craft with unadorned necessity – the floor on which I was standing was made of planks fitted together, stained and varnished.
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There are two important exceptions, moments of theater that use borrowed words and self-conscious artifice to deliver strong doses of unadorned feeling.
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She often uses short, unadorned statements, but uses them to portray a seemingly unassuming speaker whose complexity is revealed through deft line breaks.
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Plainly dressed and usually off to the side, seated with the musicians, he isn't trying to upstage anyone with his wry, unadorned performance.
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But those rows of blank windows and unvarying girders and columns, the unadorned stone carapaces and glass skins, take on their own sublimity.
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There were flames, smoke, lasers and balloons — pink ones — at Ms. Grande's disposal as well, yet the concert came across as relatively unadorned.
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AMID THE many crosses in the cemetery of the northern Italian mountain town of Bardonecchia is a freshly dug grave with an unadorned headstone.
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To some, the naked red cup, unadorned with symbols like holly or snowflakes, is an affront against the Christian faith, a cut against Christianity.
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"Paranoid Core" is a snarled, unadorned blues-rock burst that has Mark Arm assuming the voice of the heartless fuckers who run the country.
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The future of prosthetics is fast arriving, with 3D-printed construction, advanced materials and embedded sensors replacing the unadorned wood and plastic of yore.
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Yet the blanket's mostly unadorned surface, as well as the simplistic toy train and "RACHELLE" lettering sculpted in relief on it, suggest youthful innocence.
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The aesthetic was defined by simplicity: the use of primary colors, elemental shapes resembling children's building blocks, and charmingly unadorned and chunky lowercase typography.
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Yet that evening she danced another pure-dance role, the blazingly allegro Sanguinic in "The Four Temperaments," with unadorned simplicity and full-throttle sweep.
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The title of Jackie Sibblies Drury's stylishly contemplative new play, which opened on Wednesday night at the Abrons Arts Center, is unadorned by punctuation.
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Typically Alonso brings flowers and his clientes decorate unadorned graves, but with this big a group we just scatter and take in the scene.
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The first paper airplane he made for Paris was plain white and unadorned, but it had long, narrow wings so it could fly far.
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The music is loud; the food is unadorned Alpine home cooking, with dishes like beef carpaccio with pesto and mashed potatoes (2269 Swiss francs).
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Even though I prefer this beautiful foyer in an unadorned, pristine condition, I enjoy these balloons: They hang like huge grapes from a pergola.
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There's not a mumbler or an Auto-Tuned crooner among them yet, marvelously, these practitioners of straightforward, unadorned rapping sound nothing like each other.
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Her song "Sometimes" started, like so many others on the show, as an unadorned piano ballad about overcoming obstacles; a mini-orchestra joined her.
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Red curtains signaled the entrance to a suite, which featured themes and elaborate designs, while blue curtains meant the rooms were simple and unadorned.
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Pathum Thani Journal PATHUM THANI, Thailand — It is a temple for a changing Thailand: clean, unadorned, high-tech and unashamed of praying for wealth.
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In place of the clutter on the outside, each panel is unadorned, save for a series of small black spots: cameras recording your every move.
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Cohen has been buried in Montreal in an unadorned pine box next to his mother and father, his son Adam said on Facebook on Sunday.
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As part of the customary four-month and 10 day-mourning period, she wears simple, unadorned clothing and spends most of her time at home.
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The show has been staged in an unadorned gallery space, so the burden of interpretation falls entirely upon its cast members and how they interrelate.
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Her voice sounds both guileless and cutting; she can be tough, sympathetic, vulnerable or brusque, bouncing syncopated syllables against tracks that often stay cannily unadorned.
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For much of the 20th century, "serious" architects, led by Le Corbusier and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, favored unadorned surfaces and strictly geometric forms.
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The conversation took place in her unadorned bedroom, with a metal-framed bed at one end and a paint-stained chaise longue at the other.
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It was, of course, a Neapolitan pizzeria, serving classic, unadorned pies baked for about two minutes inside a wood-burning oven shaped like an igloo.
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As she stares contemplatively into what appears to be the unadorned space of a bedroom, she is at once relaxed and cerebral, wistful and removed.
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She rises from the audience at the start of the show, beginning in song then transitioning into poetry, making her way to an unadorned stage.
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"Sandburg's unadorned, muscular, straightforward diction lured me as the painted women under street lamps lured the farm boys in a city named Chicago," she wrote.
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There is drama in the horror of the murder and in the unadorned language, made bare by grief, that Leah Rabin uses to describe it.
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Ms. Wade applies a frank and unadorned style to repertoire from across the jazz canon, as well as other corners of the black music tradition.
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It's an otherwise nondescript and childlike portrayal of New York City, with unadorned buildings lined up in a row like Tetris blocks, topped with triangle roofs.
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Kanye then followed up the initial photo with two more showing the unadorned other side of the hallway and an equally bare table and seating area.
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Many of the kites in the exhibition are left in their bamboo skeleton form, unadorned by cloth, to better display the workmanship and the artistic process.
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"As maps become commodities, they, of course, are trying to entice you to buy this map instead of that unadorned or less beautiful map," Weimer stated.
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But at moments he shed all that he had earned and received, and rediscovered the hard-working, clear-seeing and unadorned man he used to be.
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Instead, on a recent Sunday his mourners streamed into an unadorned stone-colored chapel in a Stockholm cemetery, overflowing the pews and standing in the aisles.
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In time, however, like so many things in football — where there is too much time to think between game weekends — the unadorned hike became increasingly complicated.
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When it launched in 1999, the collection's signature ring — composed of a stacked, spiraling ribbon of unadorned gold — was unlike almost anything else on the market.
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Her prose, much like Salinger's — her predecessor in philosophical post-adolescent neurosis — is sharp, dialogue-heavy and unadorned, written to be absorbed into the bloodstream quickly.
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It was in the same small, unadorned space in Long Island City, Queens, that Ms. Gill first presented her Bessie Award-winning "Electric Midwife" in 2012.
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In a way, her music is simple and unadorned — her voice is the unparalleled star, and her discography grapples with themes of heartbreak, romance, and change.
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She was in her early 210s, unadorned, the kind of person who wore her professionalism earnestly: a well-practiced posture, a sensible maroon dress, sensible flats.
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But the emphasis has shifted to the unadorned and the angular, in a neutral palette: the off-white leather sectional, the rectangular dining table and consoles.
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Its houses are squat, unadorned concrete buildings, but its inhabitants are gone -- having fled to the relative safety of transit camps some 30 kilometers behind the front.
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Perhaps the music company will do business with some of the artists involved and pay them for new commissions to brighten up its 10 other, unadorned floors.
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Whether it's an 8-foot ceiling duster, a tiny tabletop tree, or any size in between, an unadorned conifer is merely a houseplant, not a Christmas tree.
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Inside, a few dozen people, mostly women, sipped coffee from Styrofoam cups in an unadorned room with a low ceiling, tan carpeting, and rows of tan chairs.
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Free agency traps those toes and unadorned heads in decision caves and judgement caverns, away from the sun and eating too much before going in the pool.
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The delicate steel arms evoke the outline of a vintage syringe; they are unadorned by the luminescence that makes contemporary models easy to see in the dark.
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The careful, unadorned language of Lee's second novel, the story of four generations of a Korean family living under Japanese forced occupation, is revealing and stealthily seductive.
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It's unadorned, which exposes every detail; it's a little like speaking one language your entire life and then being expected to be fluent in another — while naked.
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Under hashtags such as "uglyselfie," and "nomakeup" girls post pics of their unadorned selves, funny faces, unretouched images, and "epic fails" (attempts at perfect selfies that went wrong).
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The interior of the original structure, built in 1953 to house three cars for a chocolate magnate, was unadorned, its ground-floor walls lined with glazed white brick.
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So when you talk about building a brand, and creating that business, even independently, around your music, how do you reconcile that with that more unadorned musical spirit?
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A pair of crude but charmingly carved wood milliner heads and one made of painted papier-mâché attest to his attraction to both unadorned material and applied color.
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The next piece, "Depridation," began with a dry and spare pattern from Mr. Weiss, his unadorned and menacing syncopation bearing eerie hints of Elvin Jones and J. Dilla.
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They are animated with paint and Sharpies, hollowed out and carved to cast an eerie glow, or displayed unadorned, as they were picked, in all their knobby glory.
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The 80-year-old actor, clad in white linen, undoubtedly possessed gravitas, but it was consistently undercut by this production's ability to expose the play's unadorned, naked brutality.
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Windows are small, but afford magnificent views of farmland and mountains all the more cherishable for being like tiny kaleidoscopic jewels amid expanses of otherwise unadorned plaster walls.
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Off-the-shoulder, strict and long-sleeved, the white dress was unadorned — except for a hint of orange-gold flames licking their way up from hem to calf.
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Vietnamese chopsticks are often flat and unadorned (she says many Vietnamese people feel the aesthetic is more resistant to the country's heat and humidity) and have a blunt tip.
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We looked at a lot of books and we noticed that people were unadorned, there were less tattoos in those days, there were less people going to the gym.
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That's right, ladies and gentlemen, the perpetually unadorned Russian president, played by Beck Bennett, stopped by the Oval Office to remind Baldwin's Trump of, well, the whole Russia thing.
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" That cycle, he says, tends to alternate between "letting simple and unadorned food speak for itself, and relying on science, technology, and discovery to bring cuisine to new heights.
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" Since no Festivus celebration is complete without an unadorned aluminum pole, I ask that you gather around, prepare for the "feats of strength," and allow me to "air grievances.
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Dionne D. Figgins and Dwayne Cooper infuse "You're the Boss" with a teasing romance and sexual heat, and "Loving You" is a gorgeously unadorned display of doo-wop harmonies.
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Physically, the restaurant could hardly be more nondescript: in chilly months, the ground-level windows let in little light, rendering all the plainer the bare walls and unadorned tables.
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On the unadorned stage of a black-box theater two flights below Bleecker Street, the actor Ken Jennings had only a single prop: a compact Bible, worn with use.
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Patrick Demarchelier's photographs for her cover story reveal an unadorned side of the singer, and Ms. Gay had a similar goal: to present a neglected aspect of her subject.
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The idea for collecting signatures originated when the new Yankee Stadium opened in 22014 with the navy blue wall, in a hallway adjacent to the locker room, standing unadorned.
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Rather than call for elaborate makeup, Mr. Pomerance envisioned the actor unadorned, suggesting Merrick's deformities through movement and contortions but not hitting the audience over the head with them.
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"It will go out of tune on its own, always," says Mr. Smith, a 31-year-old actor with an easy, unadorned charm, who is training at Soulpepper Academy.
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Set on an unadorned, circular stage that suggests a gladiatorial ring, the play introduces two British Iranian brothers, five years apart in age, who meet for the first time.
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The pieces he designed are decidedly quiet — unadorned cashmere tunics, long silk dresses, suits in fine wool, gloves in kidskin — and they're contrasted against pieces from Margiela's own label.
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These silent, mythic spaces are made more peculiar by the presence of random domestic objects: switch plates and light bulbs, bathroom faucets and mirrors, unadorned windows and wooden chairs.
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"Mat (sliver)" (cast cardboard pulp, 12 by 12 inches, 173) is the smallest and simplest work in the show, and closely resembles an unadorned scrap of the corrugated stuff.
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This version of Grupo de Rua made its New York debut in 2010 with "H3," which introduced audiences to the company's affecting brand of unadorned theatrics and virtuosity without swagger.
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And so begins his journey from a shabby, unadorned flat in Nepal, where he's been living in exile, to the crowded Indian marketplace where his bloody mission will be completed.
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Sam Smith just made his first appearance on the Oscar stage with an unadorned, simple performance of "Writing's on the Wall," his entry into this year's Best Original Song contest.
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Mr Trump paid too much to finance the Taj with junk bonds; he also overpaid for the casino's interior, whose mirrors and chandeliers made the palace of Versailles look unadorned.
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Yet the unadorned style does keep all focus on the story as it moves from wrenching sadness to outrage, with just enough moments of levity to sweeten the bitter pill.
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That first sentence I quoted, which (like everything else in this play) comes directly from the novel, is typical of what follows, fragmented locutions unadorned by commas or proper names.
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Now that the ultimate Starbucks cup mystery is solved, we only have one question: Will we ever be able to drink out of a regular, unadorned water cup ever again?
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Adopting a comfortably old-fashioned structure of unadorned interviews, fly-on-the-wall observation and electrifying concert footage, Ms. Kopple accompanies her subject through chemotherapy, recovery and a musical rebirth.
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Though Korean, he was the prime mover of Japan's Mono-ha art movement ("School of Things"), which favored unadorned materials, both natural and industrial, arranged in modest and contingent alliances.
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Sensible: Ms. Lampe has recalibrated the show as it migrated from the Pompidou's unadorned spaces to the Jewish Museum's Beaux-Arts mansion, and the elegant hang justifies a few abbreviations.
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Much of the subsequent architecture that emerged in the Eastern Bloc in the late 2410s and early 238s was plainer, more recognizably Modernist in its straight lines and unadorned facades.
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If his unadorned high-art allusions can make him an acquired taste, his latest farce, "The Son of Joseph," is his most accessible film since "The Living World," from 2003.
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If anything, she acknowledges Pollock's precedent by shifting the unadorned necessity of the floorboards' pattern into the domain of painting, where, according to those writing about Abstract Expressionism, paint became paint.
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Vocally Mr. Pascal's style, with its oratorical flourishes and art-rock grandiosity, evokes early David Bowie and Queen, while Mr. Rapp's steady, impassioned delivery has unadorned folk-rock simplicity and sincerity.
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They're easily consumable products that at their absolute best are served largely unadorned, both of which can, when done well, display an occasionally stunning level of complexity despite their relative simplicity.
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If Khoury makes any argument, however, it is that the expression of an "unadorned truth" is impossible, since all language is symbolic and metaphoric; words are weighed down by their histories.
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But behind the unadorned pages that have earned the trust of millions of readers, an argument rages that threatens to drag the project into the muck with the other major social platforms.
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Unadorned grayish windows on opposing sides of the elevator shaft come off as distinctly gnomic formations, while the naively painted green landscape and cloud-filled blue sky seem partitioned into neat grids.
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The artist made a series of unadorned copies of each key, acting as blank keys waiting to have personal information imprinted on them, although they are in fact incapable of opening anything.
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"Make Me" is the first single from her as-yet-undetailed new LP, and it's the best thing she's released since her Femme Fatale days: low-key, largely unadorned pop-R&B.
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The troupe's artistic director, Madame Blanc, is played by an unadorned Swinton, but internet sleuths have also pegged Swinton as playing Dr. Josef Klemperer, the film's third lead, under mounds of makeup.
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Without discussing their plans with the consultants, the Sanderses decided that he would record a different, more unadorned advertisement from a Burlington studio — and he ultimately shared that version widely with supporters.
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In this video of the Third Partita, from the Greene Space in 2014, Mr. Gandelsman's playing is refreshingly unadorned and soft, with the friendly warmth of a recital in his living room.
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This is how the gallery describes the exhibition: In the work of these five painters, newly relevant positions are found by abandoning artifice and irony, and depicting subjects in unadorned and direct ways.
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Trump's Tweets Pivot, Loudly, to Video James Poniewozik examines the president's new fondness for video tweets: The aesthetics of the Rose Garden videos are more YouTube than NBC, unadorned by graphics or soundtrack.
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NASHVILLE — Brothers Osborne broke an unspoken rule at a recent songwriters round — a show where groups of writers take turns singing their songs in their most unadorned forms, spotlighting the lyrics and melody.
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It's a pleasure to hear Kesha unleash that voice in an unadorned context, especially if it's been a while since you listened to Warrior or any of her hits from earlier this decade.
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Unadorned ballerina flats made in Italy are €270; a limited-edition flowered silk shirtdress, €620; a white T-shirt with the Ines logo is €75; and an intricately embroidered skirt, more than €2,000.
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The Japanese director Ryusuke Hamaguchi stages and shoots the interlude with the same unforced intimacy and unfussy, unadorned visual style (at times borderline utilitarian) that he employs throughout this absorbing female friendship movie.
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Boxy, unadorned and often overlooked, these properties are suddenly in hot demand in many parts of the country, thanks in part to a rise in e-commerce as consumer shopping habits move online.
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"You looked too nice to be good," he tells her later, after they're married, and by nice he means sexy, not like the unadorned rural women he knew back home in western Ireland.
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From the east, the elevation presents a slim, unadorned, milk-white concrete block, nine stories high, punctured by loggias — a signpost, like the traditional village bell tower, rising above a low, scruffy neighborhood.
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Team shirts should, FIFA's laws dictate, be unadorned with "political, religious or personal" iconography; the poppy, it had previously been decreed, fell into one or more of those categories, and was thus forbidden.
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In the unadorned showroom of the designer's headquarters — concrete floor, no formal runway — out came Naomi Campbell in a snowfall of a white fur jacket, roses woven into the pile like a promise.
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When we reach the second floor, Lowe and Lucas Valentine, who have volunteered to show me around the place, whisk me into an unadorned conference room where the students and staff huddle each morning.
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They haven't done the reading either, and the way Trump talks is the way they talk to each other, unadorned, frank, sometimes wrong in the details but at least plain and to the point.
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Cuteness is so associated with Japan that the actual country – mile after mile of unadorned concrete buildings alternating with rolling green fields and periodic densely packed cities – can come as something of a surprise.
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The focus of the jewelry, which includes the Glamazon unadorned 18-karat gold cuff ($25,000) and the Glamazon Stardust collar decorated with a single strip of tiny diamonds ($14,500), is its gently undulating curves.
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Mr. Owens's devotees are seldom seen wearing anything but black, almost always unadorned, except for — as in the case of his wife, Michele Lamy — perhaps a pair of antlers worn as a sprightly crown.
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Claire's striking red dress that she wore at Versailles in last week's episode caused a stir among the French elite, in part, because it discarded the use of a corset and was remarkably unadorned.
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It's also important to note that Claire's costuming becomes simpler and unadorned as the episode goes on, perhaps highlighting her coming back into her own and the positive changes in her relationship with Jamie.
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It's not often that the paintings of an Italian Renaissance master arrive in a New York museum unadorned by the aura of fame and towering talent, but so it is with Giovanni Battista Moroni.
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There are pictures of his elegant work (like a sturdy dining table with "unadorned aprons," a dictionary stand with three curved legs) within his graceful memoir, a journey of self-discovery through fine objects.
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But he gradually embraced the project, and his accounts are the beating heart of "The Cartiers," elevating this from a company story to a human story — one even the unadorned will read with pleasure.
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The most famous footage of David Koresh features the bespectacled leader of the Branch Davidians slouched against an unadorned wall, speaking directly into a camera provided by FBI agents amid the fateful 51-day standoff.
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The rest of the words are standard fare, but taken to the limit by his sustained vocal delivery, unadorned by Auto-Tune to remain a raw declaration of having made it in the rap game.
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But all styles, even the most unadorned, tend to stiffen into mannerism, and lately the Dardennes, as though wary of that risk, have begun to pep up their spartan realism with a dash of suspense.
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Photo by Dominoe Farris LA electro-soul songstress Lucy Sunday has one of those voices that gets straight under your skin—deep and rich, with a vulnerability matched by the unadorned honesty of her songwriting.
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Bowen's own singing proved too straightforward and unadorned for emerging rock and roll, and he migrated off the stage and into the production booth, later producing Frank Sinatra (among others) before taking up with Strait.
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You paid them a flat fee and in exchange they brought you tray after tray of all-you-can-eat snow crab, unadorned and unencumbered by seasoning or sauce or sides (except, of course, kimchi).
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Zimny, who served as his own editor, presents the show unadorned, almost entirely without directorial intervention — it's just Springsteen onstage, joined for two songs by his wife and fellow E Street Band member, Patti Scialfa.
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"Not much of a view from the seats," Robert Riddell, 59, wrote for the caption of the blurry photo that showed part of the cockpit and vintage mechanical equipment inside the aircraft's unadorned, aluminum interior.
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His broad appeal and his unusual magnetism transformed the normally brief and unadorned ritual into something much larger on Thursday, with various dignitaries, boxing impresarios, retired fighters and former neighbors and friends of Ali's in attendance.
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One day, on the counter, was a square pan of cake — not birthday cake, not crumb cake, not tea cake, but unadorned, easy-to-grab snacking cake, a treat seemingly invented to satisfy post-algebra appetites.
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Many of his compositions feature photographs or text borrowed from disparate sources, and have the lucid, unadorned look of educational materials, especially flash cards and posters inscribed with useful information in sans-serif, jumbo-size type.
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The hand-crafted platinum ring, centrally set with an oval-shaped diamond and encrusted band set with over 155 smaller round diamonds, appealed to him because of the "elegant simplicity" of the unadorned oval stone, says Lane.
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"I spend nights not sleeping, just worrying," said Castano, who weighs around 77 pounds (35 kg), as she lay on an old bed in a bleak hospital room, its bare walls unadorned by a television or pictures.
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A few of the most beautifully unadorned songs on the album are sung in Spanish, a reminder of the immigrant's psyche, of how some things just make more sense in a language that reminds you of home.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads Donald Judd (1928-1994) was an intelligent SoHo artist most noted for his unadorned rectangular sculptures that arrived during the mid-1563s and stayed alive in art exhibitions to his death.
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His desk, too, was largely unadorned: a black computer monitor, a white Mac keyboard, a pen, a bottle of Fiji water, a small stack of papers and a photograph of his wife, Kimberly, and their daughter, Chelsea.
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Ermanno Olmi, a largely self-taught Italian director who wove family folk tales and unadorned accounts of farm life, class and Roman Catholicism into neorealist films that often starred amateur actors, died on Friday in Asiago, Italy.
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Virtually no surface is left unadorned, albeit with the designer's subtle version of decoration: Not only are chairs and the Vladimir Kagan sofa covered in pale, luxurious fabrics (cashmere, mohair, silk), so too are desks and tables.
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And they are best served, unadorned, alongside your drink of choice: Mine, a glass of nearly unbearably crisp rosé, the jam-smack of red berry and sunshine tempered by the mellow warmth of the oil and salt.
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The smartphone, with its ever-finer cameras and ever-shinier screens, now shapes our experience of art as thoroughly as the church did in 14th-century Italy or the unadorned, white-cube galleries did for midcentury abstract painters.
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It's hard not to miss Ally's unadorned face and unflashy brown hair: You might find yourself wanting more Germanotta and less Gaga, Even so, Ally the superstar is still nowhere near as mythically outsized as Gaga herself is.
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When I got home from work, I put my extensive collection of Sharpies and poster board away, changed into a shirt unadorned with any political or social statement, called up an old friend and went to a party.
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She was no clothes horse — she wore "house dresses," soft cotton button-downs that were easy to take off and on, wash-and-wear, with a simple slip underneath, unadorned but presentable — but she was an excellent businesswoman.
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He represents a meeting of several hip-hop generations, in which the straightforward, unadorned rapping beloved by aesthetic conservatives meets the goofy, hedonistic humor of contemporary pop-rap (minus the melodic, electronic vocal manipulations endemic to the latter).
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In a simple, unadorned hand, Mr. Fradon drew nearly 21950,21980 cartoons in his five decades at The New Yorker — a run that began under the magazine's founding editor, Harold Ross, and ended under the current editor, David Remnick.
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It came up in the context of a discussion of the surreal way he transforms and warps vocal takes into colorful prismatic melodies, but his point was clear—there's something special about music made by hand and present unadorned.
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And when the Silver Queen finally ripened, my first old farmer paid me for a single ear, then neatly wadded the husk into the trash bin and bit into the corn like an apple: raw, sweet, milky and unadorned.
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He soon found a photograph that had been taken in the Gordon living room of an unadorned secretary that looked suspiciously like an image he had found online of the fully realized Bingham memorial secretary in the same spot.
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Pennebaker turned his camera on everything from rock concerts to political campaigns to, uh, the world of competitive pastry making, but the director managed to capture the same unadorned human vulnerability in all his works, regardless of the subject.
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Back in the glory days of hand-drawn animation, every outfit, and every bead and button on it, had to be hand-painted, frame by agonizing frame, which meant that Cinderella's dress from 1950, say, while lovely, is remarkably unadorned.
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In that bit of desperation—the quiver and clumsiness of the imperative, "I know that it's late, but wait / Wait, I'll drive you home"—he offers a familiar sting: the unadorned vulnerability of being brought to your knees by desire.
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His nominal topics have been modern wars in the Middle East, but the micro-level power of his unadorned and direct prose lies in no less than an attempt to contain and dramatize the darkness and light of our souls.
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In "Untitled (The Shape of Sound)" (290), an otherwise unadorned 220-foot-wide rectangle of wood supports a loose, vaguely wreath-like tangle of nailed-together slats, a bristling form that harks back to Leigh's freestanding sculptures of the 25s.
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The problems are that lidar is bulky (it hides in the roof domes of Google's self-driving cars and, as pictured above, in the revolving beacons that adorn Uber's vehicles), mechanically complicated and can cost as much as the unadorned car itself.
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Estancia's most memorable food is traditional and without fuss: golden egg-washed empanadas; grilled Angus skirt steak with bright green chimichurri sauce; egg-rich potato pie oozing Parmesan; and unadorned caramel flan — all best enjoyed with a glass of fruity, everyday malbec.
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To any hummus (from $10 unadorned to $13 with meat), you may add a haminado egg, so called because it harks back to hamin, a Sephardic Sabbath stew put in the oven before sundown, with eggs cooking at low temperature all night.
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Apart from Santa María de Atzompa, which uses a green glaze, and San Bartolo, where the clay is fired to black, the pottery in this region is simple, drab brown and mostly unadorned: not the kind of thing outsiders get worked up about.
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Against steel- and linen-covered walls of Johnson's design, the show held up industrial objects as art in itself, and praised their unadorned beauty over the Art Deco housewares more popular at the time, which Johnson derided as insufficiently modern and too French.
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Unlike other families of top junior skiers, the Shiffrins, who had moved from Colorado to New Hampshire in 2005, frustrated their youth coaches by eschewing a heavy race schedule at major resorts in favor of incessant training at tiny, unadorned New England hills.
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"By grit and determination, brains, courage, compassion and a fiery commitment to justice, Ruth Bader Ginsburg rose from unadorned beginnings to become one of the most respected, and most beloved, jurists of our time," Amy Gutmann, president of the University of Pennsylvania, said.
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The artist, a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, paints unadorned coastal scenes, pared down to pale washes over carbon-dark backgrounds, as well as figures drawn from dance: in this case, the works of the British choreographer Frederick Ashton.
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Jon Clark's masterful lighting picks out the characters and throws their shimmering silhouettes against the back wall of Soutra Gilmour's gorgeous if largely unadorned set: With the exception of a few chairs, there are hardly any props to get in the way.
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Take YouTube, for example: Justin Bieber, Alessia Cara, and Charlie Puth all amassed early, dedicated fandoms by posting covers to their personal channels, gaining viral traction through their sheer, unadorned musical talent — and these digital fanbases minted each of them a record deal.
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"When the curtain is pulled back, 'Something is rotten in the state of Denmark' cannot help but spring to mind from Defendants' naked, unadorned avarice and conspiratorial actions in connection with the sale of factory-manufactured industrial products called Jeff Koons sculptures," the lawsuit reads.
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Riding a minimal, bleeping beat that lets the group's message of resistance come through unadorned, D and Trybez invoke the timeless menace of the 1979 cult action film ("Come out to plaaaaaay") and tie it to the now-necessary warrior traditions of the Secwepemc peoples.
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But, despite the differences between Parfitt's unadorned rhythm guitar chug and Michael's crafted pop confections, their work was characterised by an underlying factor: accessibility – something that is often overlooked but deceptively difficult to achieve and a necessary condition for the mass appeal that they sustained.
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It was a modest and unadorned structure that had none of the glamour of the Temple of Baal; a 3D reconstruction of the rather plain sarcophagus that held the remains of its eponymous saint won't be coming to a major Western city any time soon.
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So, too, has he grown more subtle—instead of flat-out depicting the president boning a starlet, or portraying Trump's adult sons being gored by an elephant, he's toned his lewdness down, opting for a simple, unadorned nip in lieu of something much more lascivious.
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Unless, perhaps, you consider the video in a broader context, and see it as a reflection of a world in which the vast majority of magazine-cover models look a little bit more like Taylor Swift, and a little less like Pony's unadorned face.
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However, her straightforward, unadorned prose, which many will admire, feels not so much intentionally accessible as the product of a mind still forming the ability to see the secular world, one not trained in the speculative that is the foundation of poetry and lyricism.
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With an unadorned, naturalistic style that heavily favors intense close-ups, Hittman plunges viewers into the subjectivity of her protagonists, whose jumble of feelings — dread and confusion, determination and ambivalence, resignation and relief — play out with every glance and gesture, and very few words.
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Mr. Chen, 2362, a New Yorker whose parents are from Taiwan, and Mr. Gyamtso, also 21100, a Tibetan who came to New York in 217, are doing all the cooking in an open kitchen at the back of the unadorned 217-seat dining room.
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As much as I loved the convenience and easy beauty it gave me, I always ran the risk of meeting a man who might have a problem becoming romantically involved with Tina, with her bountiful hair and glamorous trimmings, but waking up with unadorned Anna Mae.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads "That which is the immodesty of other women has been my virtue — my willingness that the world should gaze upon my figure unadorned," Audrey Munson, the favorite nude model of the Beaux Arts movement in the United States, once proclaimed.
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Translator Yvette Siegert has succeeded in faithfully rendering the minimalism of the Spanish in wrenching, stripped English; she and Pizarnik give proof that unadorned poetry, particularly of a confessional bent, can generate more heat and light than the more histrionic — and often pretentious — examples of that genre.
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John Krause was so unassumingly appealing as Rick, the boys' cool, good-guy counselor, that I wished there were more of him — and of Rick's acoustic guitar, which supplied the kind of unadorned musical moments that are mostly missing from this show, directed by Jill Jaysen.
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The simple truth of "Real Life" is that Wallace, like myself and many others who've wandered dark, white halls in search of a future, has made himself invisible by shedding the skin of his past, and adopting a new skin unadorned with the blemishes of history.
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But in Xu Lizhi's "rusted-out life" there's also an echo of what Lu Xun praised in 1927 as the "rusted words and language" of politically aware youth: unadorned expression that, in its refusal to accommodate the usual modes of poetic complaint, demonstrates a fiery spirit of defiance.
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In 2010, Vo co-curated a show of work by the late Felix Gonzalez-Torres, whose use of mundane but evocative materials (piles of wrapped candies that viewers were invited to share, strings of unadorned light bulbs) had been an inspiration for him when he was starting out.
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The Oxford, Mississippi, label has cultivated and reissued Southern blues and soul artists since 1991, and Don't Give Up On Love, the album released in 27, featured Bryant in a typical Fat Possum retro setting: close-miked, unadorned, surrounded by tasteful session musicians playing live in the room.
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According to our narrator, the holes — much like the passageways between the galleries, intentionally left unadorned by WangShui for this exhibition — were built to allow mythic dragons to pass from the mountains to the ocean, a nod to the mythic that exists within (and in defiance of) modern sterility.
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Though the mostly unadorned stage directs all attention his way, he is often outshone by other elements of the production, especially the onstage musicians Laura Dadap and A. J. Khaw; the historical images and other visuals projected on a screen; and the dancers Maleek Washington and Rebecca Arends.
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Hearing an announcement that the event was about to begin, I hurried through the bar area, where avatars were chatting, and found myself in a place that resembled a suburban Reform synagogue—sleek, unadorned, full of natural light, with, up front, a slightly raised bimah for the moderator.
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Whether you're a casual listener or dedicated collector of Prince bootlegs, the nine raw, unadorned songs on Piano and a Microphone throw up a dicey ethical question: How should we listen to the intentionally unreleased demos of a now-departed musician who so painstakingly controlled his image when he was alive?
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London producer Parris has shared a haunting new track entitled "My Beautiful Fantasy," off his forthcoming Your Kiss is Sour EP. Using a sample of a mid-20th century analog synthesizer, the Soundman Chronicles boss emphasizes its beguilingly eerie tone by placing it front-and-center, and leaving it mostly unadorned.
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He was working on a budget — the film's daring came at a price, with Hitchcock using his own money to finance it — though Herrmann writes for the small ensemble's full range of sound: harmonics, percussive effects, the use of mutes and a telling difference between vibrato and unadorned, airy sustained notes.
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Although it includes musical interludes as well as some enlivening choreography (Devon de Mayo and Patrick McCollum are credited as "co-movement directors"), "Wilderness" is at its eloquent best when it is simplest, when the characters and their parents discuss their lives, in unadorned language, with an honesty that is deeply affecting.
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Electronic sighs and moans, punctuated with fluttering reeds, lonesome six-strings, poignant synth-horns, gamelan-esque percussion, jazzy interludes, various swirly bits and pieces—and, on occasion, Allien's speak-sing vocals, both unadorned and laden in effects—culminate in a elegant, joyous drone that, in the album's final passage, dissolves into breakbeat bliss.
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Abdulrauf Khatri is a 10th-generation printer who has devoted his life to the survival of this art, committing himself to the same unmechanized processes and vegetable dyes that go back 400 years, including the painstaking and difficult task of hand printing on both sides so that no area is left unadorned.
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Lady Gaga has arrived unadorned before; over the last couple of years, it has become something of a default mode: her collaboration with Tony Bennett on the album "Cheek to Cheek," which won the Grammy for best traditional pop vocal album last year, or her "Sound of Music" tribute at the Oscars the same year.
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"Free Fallin'" (1989) No one captured the unadorned poetry of ordinary lives quite like Petty, and this may be his masterpiece: the endlessly evocative tale of "a good girl/crazy 'bout Elvis/loves horses, and her boyfriend too" — even if that love isn't fully returned by the guy who wants to write her name in the sky.
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This is usually just the raw footage provided to all official broadcasters around the world to do with what they see fit; NHK doesn't have the budget nor the viewer interest to give each sport the full production treatment with commentary and on-site reporting, so most of these events are only able to be streamed unadorned by announcers or studio banter.
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It's such a pleasure to look at her face, unadorned, with that extraordinary, face-defining nose—it's like discovering a new country Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian Cooper is arguably prettier than Lady Gaga, but she is the one who commands your attention: that sharp, quizzical, leonine, mesmeric face – an uningratiating face, very different from the wide-eyed openness of Streisand or Garland.
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They sell hexagonal and rectangular tiles that would be beautiful in a home, huge unadorned Judd-like cubes that can be used as benches or coffee tables, flower pots in the most traditional shapes and a large cylinder called "Homage to Piero Manzoni," a reference to the tin cans that the artist Manzoni sold of his own feces in 1961.
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This recessiveness is especially apparent in the 4,520-square-foot main house, with its nine-foot-tall sliding wooden barn doors of caramel-colored Brazilian ipe, invulnerable to the elements, and wall-size expanses of glass that fold like accordions to transform the three-bedroom residence into an open-air pavilion, complete with an unadorned colonnade that references clean-lined Greco-Roman classicism.
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His soft voice echoed off his bare white terrazzo floors and largely unadorned pale walls (Benjamin Moore "Simply White") as he identified pieces in his living room: a Billy Baldwin sofa and slipper chairs, a circa 1960 Klismos outdoor dining set, a pair of urn-topped white columns flanking the front door like something out of the Elizabeth Arden salon.
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Along the way, she passed the ruins of abandoned railway stations silhouetted against the dun-colored hills, unadorned echoes of the spontaneous beach settlements of plywood and cardboard that she'd visited farther north, created, sometimes overnight, by copper miners — low-income communities laying their claim, as the rich had done for generations, to their own parcel of land and sea.
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And then there's the outstretched arm — an unadorned contour drawing that contrasts so harshly with the blackish browns of the backdrop that it behaves like an independent element of the composition, conceptually detached from the saint's body and so isolated against the dark field that your eye would be stuck on it if not for the bright patch of ground on the painting's opposite side.
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Never mind the athletes they are covering; by virtue of the unadorned honesty of their commentary and the haute-couture majesty of their wardrobes, Weir and Lipinski have become must-see TV. Weir, 33, has his hair swept into a bird nest — two women help him style his hair and do his makeup each day — and wears sequined blazers over layers of leather and lace.
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The videos take advantage of the White House setting — lush landscaping, flattering light, sedate columns — and appeal to the reality TV star's preference for speaking off-the-cuff, echoing his early social media "Trumpvlogs" in which he teed off on topics like the female reboot of "Ghostbusters": The aesthetics of the Rose Garden videos are more YouTube than NBC, unadorned by graphics or soundtrack.
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In addition to a studio that they made as newlyweds — little more than a shack — the property includes her brother's unadorned two-story limestone farmhouse built in 2400 from plans that the 2100-year-old Alberts drafted in architecture school, as well as a 230,238-square-foot, midcentury-inflected villa with a peaked wooden roof and bright orange accents that the couple finished in 21960 for Ulla's sister.
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CreditCreditSasha Arutyunova for The New York Times The NBC correspondent Katy Tur sat in her unadorned office in the second floor of the network's 20123 Rockefeller Plaza headquarters, coiling her compact 5-foot-3-inch frame on a swivel chair, and recounted with the chilly grin familiar to her TV viewers what it was like to have found herself an unexpectedly prominent figure in the 2016 presidential campaign.
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Yet, by focusing on what highlights there are to be gleaned from the full-spectrum aberration that was mucho Mucha, one thing is absolutely clear: when eyeing him through the opposite end of the Ornament and Crime Modern telescope that rejected his fabulous excessiveness, much of Mucha's work reinforces complex, postmodern, digital reactions against a simple American modernism that favored clean lines and unadorned geometry that in his post-Paris memoir Henry Miller has called The Air-Conditioned Nightmare.
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That means preserving the bones of the building and adding his own nods to French architecture: In the hall next to the tearoom — which will eventually be reserved for the burning and smelling of incense — a worker knelt to brush the floor, laid with the sort of hexagonal ceramic tiles you would be likely to find in a French grandmother's kitchen, even if instead of the customary reddish-brown, these tiles were an unadorned, concrete-like gray.
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Well-financed sushi nuts have already had the $145 omakase and been served on both sides of the counter by the profoundly courtly employees of Kosaka; tried Sushi Zo's $200 omakase, the rice almost invisible under very long and very soft and unadorned ribbons of fish; sat down to Ichimura's $300 sonata of fish cured and seasoned in an emphatic style that descends from the days before refrigeration; and handed over as much as $2 to Sushi Ginza Onodera for nigiri and other dishes that are as minutely detailed as the interior is soaringly grand.
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