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The veneer of middle-class respectability is laid bare for the cheating, backstabbing and adulterous world it really is in Leslie Darbon's play.
Even by his own histrionic standards, O'Neill's reaction to the match-winning penalty in Lyon on Wednesday night laid bare his soul.
This event truly has laid bare, unlike any other, the awful contradictions and hypocrisies of American society.
It has laid bare the truths that equity without excellence is an empty achievement, quantity without quality an unkept promise.
The report laid bare the details of the corruption and illegalities committed.
This week the omnishambles that is this country's police reform was laid bare.
Here, the true nature of the geology of the Chiricahuas is laid bare for visitors to observe and ponder.
But this was the year when the race nearly came off the rails, as the mirky world of doping in professional cycling was laid bare for all to see.
They said they hoped to make the specialist worker's appointment a permanent one after the scale of the problem was laid bare by police figures.
Check out the back pages of any glossy magazine and the dream is laid bare.
The troll flung these in every direction until the present was laid bare before him.
Antoine's immaturity is laid bare, but in a surprisingly nuanced and empathetic manner.
In this fashion, the whole of our belief system and our culture is laid bare and destroyed.
The carnage of a motorcycle crash will be laid bare before bikers when they are given the chance to see the gruesome results.
And the incident has laid bare the woeful lack of facilities in Scotland for the proper treatment of offenders with mental disorders.
They have laid bare wrong approaches, mentalities and attitudes, and principles which had been forgotten or obscured.
The shortcomings in the Spanish economy, adjustments to which were too long delayed, have been laid bare.
What remains after such a 'shattering' are the resonances of fragility: tremulousness, and a heart laid bare.
The audience that afternoon was mostly too young to have any memory of that era, but listened appreciatively as Mr Yang laid bare its horrors.
His efforts to burn his aircraft failed, and the secrets of Saulnier's interrupter gear were laid bare.
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Examples from Classical Literature
When my ignorances were laid bare, the examiners most considerately confined their questions to my period.
He found an abettor in the person of the Portuguese pianist, to whom he laid bare his soul.
Like paper birch and lodgepole pine, it follows forest fires where the ground is laid bare by the burning.
Had the strings of the bows played these czardas upon his own sinews, laid bare, he would not have trembled more violently.
Sometimes it seems to me a pity that hearts are not laid bare to the gaze of others.
The substruction of this temple, which has been laid bare, consists of tufa cased with travertine.
In the grounds of the Admiralty House curious instances of unconformable strata are laid bare in old quarries.
Here there had been a landslip, and the entire face of the cliff was laid bare.
Throughout an epoch which laid bare the meanness of most natures, his character was unsmirched.
The police have laid bare the floors, the ceilings, and the masonry of the walls, in every direction.
It was laid bare when they were excavating for Islington Market.
Last season Chelsea's reputation was tarnished by a series of sordid revelations, with the private lives of John Terry and Ashley Cole laid bare.
At other places the banks were banded with great veins of iron ore, laid bare by the abrasion of the river.
She saw a soul laid bare before her in all its unutterable vileness.
If happiness is to be portrayed, the coziest nook in Elysium is laid bare.
Kneeling on the flagstones by the light of Daddy Jacques's lantern he removed the clothes from the body and laid bare its breast.
A portion of his chest was laid bare to the ribs, three of which had been broken by the mighty blows of the gorilla.
Her lips parted in sudden awe and wonder at the strange revealment of her inner self that was being laid bare before her consciousness.
The sharp point laid bare a deep gash upon his scalp and must certainly have killed him if it had come closer.
A scapegrace's record could always be laid bare when occasion served.
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