(1) With his sharp, crisp, witty script, he deconstructs identity politics without ever dipping into the pedantic or falling prey to either easy sentimentality or unvarnished pathos.

(2) Because ultimately, the Scot is one of those unvarnished antagonists, a man whose endeavours have brought him a decent reward, but nothing more than you would expect for a rider prepared to risk being mangled and maimed by machinery.

(3) We have to rely on that person to give the unvarnished facts.

(4) Still, it offers a glimpse of Canada's (and particularly Edmonton's) unvarnished , mohawked past.

(5) The camera enters a living room with scraps of wallpaper clinging to old plaster and dusty unvarnished floorboards.

(6) Yellow and orange sponge-painted walls are accentuated by unpainted, unvarnished wooden tables.

(7) Half truth that is branded with a recognized name and laminated to cover the cracks is rated more highly than unvarnished fact.

(8) There is, of course, a difference between doing favours for people you know and sheer, unvarnished corruption.

(9) 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.

(10) Instead, he's worked with traditional materials and contrasting textures - unvarnished wood, raw silk - to create a style that is clearly modern, but remains richly Alpine in spirit.

(11) By finding and posting the unvarnished documents that drive the news, the blogosphere helps us figure out if we're being snowed.

(12) Another target of the conservatives is the CIA director, a professional without a national constituency, who provides unvarnished information to the president.

(13) Try Holiday Whistler where you will get not only a great choice of Whistler accommodation, but also an unvarnished and knowledgeable perspective on the advantages and disadvantages of each location.

(14) Reports of a nation humiliated because it has been reduced to choosing between a crook clinging to office and an unvarnished fascist are everywhere.

(15) What do you need beyond talented performers and strong, unvarnished texts?

(16) 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.

(17) They want plain, unvarnished statements from the government, not the latest output from the Merrion Street spin machine.

(18) Yet the face-to-face confrontations - scowls, barbs and factual misstatements included - provide Americans their most unvarnished glimpses at the man they will elect commander in chief.

(19) 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.

(20) If I am communicating to my readers exactly what the White House believes on any certain issue, that's reporting to them an unvarnished , unfiltered version of what they believe.