Perhaps, indeed, in those luxurious regions, a bare and unadorned worship would not seem to be worship at all.
Have you forgotten, that in our country it is the custom never to appear unadorned before the king?
They have something venerable and oracular in that unadorned gravity and shortness in the expression.
Nor is his elaborate argument meant to prove the gross inferiority of Art in a garden to unadorned Nature more inspiring.
For loveliness Needs not the foreign aid of ornament, But it is when unadorned adorn'd the most.
Upon this plain, unadorned field, you set your man of imagination to work.
Claudius has told with much purity and elegance, and in the simple unadorned sweetness of ancient language(164).
In their natural and unadorned state they suggest the rhythmic freedom of Scandinavia, and their dance forms are similarly wild and irresistible.
Unfortunately the potency of Berlioz's music depends almost entirely upon orchestral tone-color; on the other hand, the unadorned substance of Wagner's music will withstand the closest scrutiny.
I will tell you why: the stupid cook insisted on serving it up, unadorned by the smart piece of writing-paper which is usually wrapped round the shank-bone.
But if it was even true, that the best novel is only food for infancy, or a weak being, for whom unadorned morality is a terrifying object, would the author's decision be the more justifiable?
I will not determine; but I would ask what he means by those thinking men, for whom unadorned morality is not terrifying?
Even a good novel is but aliment for a child, or some weak being, to whom morality unadorned is a disgusting object.
The apartment is a plain, unadorned square, of twenty-one by eighteen feet.
Filled with joy at the token, the Portuguese defeated the Moors, and on the bloody battle-field Alfonso was proclaimed King of Portugal, and from that day placed on his hitherto unadorned buckler five azure shields, arranged as a cross.
In a few severely unadorned words she gave me to understand that she had ventured to hope for some really helpful suggestion from me.
There is something poetic in his method of observation: he really loved these good people and painted them in the unadorned simplicity of their life--cheery old age that knows no wrinkles and laughing youth that knows no sorrows.
The windows blank and staring with white glass; the woodwork unadorned and merely painted; a little stir of feet coming in and garments rustling, the only sound.
His straightforward, abrupt manner savoured sometimes of gruffness, while his direct, unadorned method of expressing himself harmonized well with his rough-hewn, immobile features and somewhat sluggish movements.
Where was it that Bernadette had seen this Blessed Virgin, of such traditionally simple composition, unadorned by a single jewel, having but the primitive grace imagined by the painters of a people in its childhood?
It was an office which bespoke the attorney of the older generation, and about it hung the air of an unadorned workship.
It was in its unadornedfashion a place of crumbling traditions.
He was a tall man, superbly built, clad in a long unadornedsilk robe.
A single wandering mercenary required no passport nor safe-conduct, especially when his unadorned mail showed him to be in the service of no lord.
To care for the beauties of landscapeunadorned by art, and to sympathise with sublime or rugged scenery, was not in the spirit of the Renaissance.
A hundred illustrations might be chosen to prove his method of setting forth thought with unadorned simplicity.
The house was quiet, unadorned save for a third-floor balcony above the entryway.
He dropped his hand to the unadorned hilt of his sword.
In front, there is the statue itself contrasted by the plainness and simplicity of the unadorned side of the pedestal.
The plain, serviceable clothes fitted the slight figure as though they had been long worn and loved; the hair was closely coiled, so that the young face looked out upon the world frank and unadorned as a boy's.
