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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
As admirably rendered by the translator Ross Benjamin, Kehlmann’s style is sober and matter of fact, the sentences straightforward, undecorated by colorful words or difficult syntax.
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David Denby,
New Yorker,
23 May 2025
Individuals may honor service members by laying flowers or flags at cemeteries, especially military resting places, where many graves often go undecorated.
The recycled leather lanyard adds to its convenience and simple, timeless style.
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New Atlas,
New Atlas,
16 Aug. 2025
In North Carolina, Republicans are a few votes shy of a supermajority in one chamber but still control the redistricting process because the state’s congressional maps are not subject to veto and therefore can be passed by a simple majority in the legislature.
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.
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