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Recent Examples of unelaborateHow can something so unelaborate as Sole Meuniere with Lemon and Browned Butter be such a rave?—Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 20 June 2017
Even in a space that’s gone undecorated otherwise, a faux fur blanket draped over your couch with velvet pillows signals an impending winter wonderland.
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Quincy Bulin,
Southern Living,
1 Dec. 2025
McGuane’s style has at times skewed maximalist, a stark departure from Hemingway’s famously undecorated prose.
Build buffer time, trim one commitment, then return to the itinerary with even gentler expectations and a simpler packing list.
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Tarot.com,
Hartford Courant,
2 Apr. 2026
Parents, guardians, aunts and uncles don't have time to read every book on the shelf while trying to pick something for the young reader in their life, so here are some simple ways to determine if a book is suitable for that child.
The kitchen—small, unfancy, pleasant—has a window with a sight line to the Duomo: by conventional measures the best view in the apartment, but somehow, in this setting, a private decadence.
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Nathan Heller,
Vogue,
23 Aug. 2022
The writing was elegant but direct, decidedly unfancy, and always infused by Gurza’s encyclopedic knowledge of music and passion for social justice, community and family.