| The camera enters a living room with scraps of wallpaper clinging to old plaster and dusty unvarnished floorboards. |
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| This is not a monochromatically somber piece, but a suspenseful slice of unvarnished life, mixing anguish and grief with smiles and laughs. |
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| But she must take it further and announce that henceforward her government is committed to telling the truth, unvarnished and unflinching. |
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| Awareness of the smooth page clouds the difference between varnished and unvarnished oil paint, between opaque and transparent watercolour. |
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| The furniture included a forties dresser, an oval sixties coffee table and two much newer Scandinavian-style bookcases of unvarnished pine. |
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| By finding and posting the unvarnished documents that drive the news, the blogosphere helps us figure out if we're being snowed. |
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| They want plain, unvarnished statements from the government, not the latest output from the Merrion Street spin machine. |
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| I don't aim to teach my students the complete, unvarnished skepticism that the Pyrrhonists advocated. |
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| There is, of course, a difference between doing favours for people you know and sheer, unvarnished corruption. |
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| I wrote the essay over the past few hours without reading anything on the blogosphere, so it reflects my wholly unvarnished opinion. |
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| Instead, we see his unvarnished, unpretty tears when anguish overtakes him. |
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| He will contrast that alleged double-dealing with his unvarnished pledge to reduce the overall tax burden in the UK year on year on year. |
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| Half truth that is branded with a recognized name and laminated to cover the cracks is rated more highly than unvarnished fact. |
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| Yellow and orange sponge-painted walls are accentuated by unpainted, unvarnished wooden tables. |
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| What we learn from an unvarnished depiction of the situation is that investment, both private and public, in Europe is at a low point. |
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| I do not begrudge the journalist for pursuing the unvarnished truth, irrespective of political consequences. |
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| The chapel will be shaped from within, so that it has a barrel ceiling laid in unvarnished wood. |
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| Chantal Hébert is very quick to give the unvarnished truth about all of us, the NDP included, but what has she said about this? |
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| The unvarnished truth is: it is impossible to detect oil beneath the ground by any scientific device known today. |
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| We firmly believe that we will serve no purpose if we do not present an unvarnished view of reality. |
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| Finally, retighten the bolts and grease the unvarnished mechanical parts which are likely to rust. |
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| What do you need beyond talented performers and strong, unvarnished texts? |
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| They, after all, have the ability, in an unvarnished manner, to watch the statements we make and judge us accordingly at election time. |
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| This public letter contains an unvarnished presentation of the current situation of the Roman-Catholic church in Germany, made up in ten topics. |
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| Of all the Gang of Eight senators, he was the most unvarnished in his advocacy and he has the most to lose. |
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| Many of the artists, most particularly Vuillard, painted these in distemper and left them unlined and unvarnished, making them more fragile than oils on canvas. |
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| He knew the bald, unvarnished, terrified truth when he heard it. |
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| He was a midwesterner from a swing state, with unvarnished liberal credentials and the backing of labor. |
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| And plenty of people speak of this immigration and its supposed dangers as if these were unvarnished, unquestionable truths. |
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| One of the first aspects you can see upon arriving at the hostel is the raw, unvarnished timber that composes the various structures that speckle the area. |
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| We have to rely on that person to give the unvarnished facts. |
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| They will give their unvarnished findings to the defense team. |
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| However, his very fragility serves to expose the child within the man, making for a sincere, unaffected, and genuine performance, unvarnished by conscious stage techniques. |
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| She stayed, briefly played peacemaker, and then let rip with a now infamous speech, in which she gave her unvarnished opinion of all her fellow celebrities. |
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| Still, it offers a glimpse of Canada's unvarnished, mohawked past. |
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| Such unvarnished compassion is as rare in movies as it is in real life. |
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| Reports of a nation humiliated because it has been reduced to choosing between a crook clinging to office and an unvarnished fascist are everywhere. |
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| Another target of the conservatives is the CIA director, a professional without a national constituency, who provides unvarnished information to the president. |
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| It might make more sense in the future to set up some intensive one-on-one interviews with key stakeholders to get their unvarnished opinions on DFO's latest actions dealing with overfishing. |
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| But the fascists are simply expressing in an open, unvarnished and violent way the economic and political interests of the European ruling classes at the present juncture. |
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| This is an unvarnished appeal to the NATO imperialists. |
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| They warned of the potential for violence once their report is released, but affirmed that despite the risk of violence they would publicize their findings and recommendations unvarnished. |
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| Failure, even if it be a plain, unvarnished, complete failure, has a certain dignity, because it is a monument to the fact that a man tried to do something. |
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| They reveal the unvarnished perceptions and emotions of the time. |
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| But when Ben Bernanke gave his twice-yearly monetary testimony to Congress on July 15th and 16th, he had little to offer but unvarnished and uncomfortable truths. |
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| The purpose of this position was to offer the Prime Minister an opportunity to consult directly with a respected scientist who would offer not only advice but also the unvarnished truth about Canada's scientific performance. |
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| It has been established that above all the phenomenon affects sealed power transformers with unvarnished copper windings and that are operated with a high load. |
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| The long-running inquiry by Sir John Chilcot, a former mandarin, it was hoped, would be an unvarnished account of the hows, whys and by whoms of the calamity. |
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| But his loyal readers love his unvarnished, warm-hearted storytelling. |
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| I understand that as a public intellectual he feels the need to speak what he sees as the unvarnished truth. |
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| I launched Tehran Bureau to provide a platform for young Iranians and their stories, and to bring unvarnished and uncensored reports to readers around the world. |
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| We agreed to collaborate and produce a full, complete, unvarnished, uncastrated copy of the great original. |
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| For fish and meat unvarnished tin cans are often suitable. |
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| Headland's unvarnished depiction of women comes amid a boomlet of similarly themed movies and television shows. |
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| They deserve the full and unvarnished facts, whether in relation to corporation tax or the outworkings of the defence and security provisions of the Treaty. |
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| The unvarnished truth is that only a small and select group benefits from the policies we see entrenched in the budgets of former and current governments that are presented in the House. |
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| We will continue to move forward. The bottom line is that unlike the members opposite we do not automatically assume that any allegations made by the Taliban against Canadian Forces are the unvarnished truth. |
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| Earhart was saintlike only as a martyr to her own ambition, who became an object of veneration and is periodically resurrected — her unvarnished glamour, like a holy man's body, still miraculously fresh. |
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