unbuttressed

Now we need "correspondence, biographies, or critical studies" or our reading experience is "unbuttressed."

Translated Texts 2010

He crouches there, holding the clippers in the palm of his hand, unbuttressed by any curled over fingers.

Deadheading 2010

In short, the Castro article is a smarmy pastiche of inference and insinuation, unbuttressed by a smidgen of factual evidence.

The Mayor's Analyst: A Psychoanalysis of Villaraigosa's Confabulations 2006

In short, the Castro article is a smarmy pastiche of inference and insinuation, unbuttressed by a smidgen of factual evidence.

Friday Open Thread 2006

In short, the Castro article is a smarmy pastiche of inference and insinuation, unbuttressed by a smidgen of factual evidence.

Monday Open Thread: Mayor Von Münchhausen 2006

The naturalists and their followers, thinking they can solve this question, are like plasterers set to plaster one side of the walls of a church who, availing themselves of the absence of the chief superintendent of the work, should in an access of zeal plaster over the windows, icons, woodwork, and still unbuttressed walls, and should be delighted that from their point of view as plasterers, everything is now so smooth and regular.

War and Peace 2003

She loved it even more when I finally unbuttressed my shyness and asked her name.

outfoxed Diary Entry outfoxed 2001

They came from a tree of medium size with a perfectly columnar, unbuttressed trunk covered in smooth bark of a yellowish hue.

One River Wade Davis 1996

Looking about, Schultes realized he was in a pure stand of a slender, unbuttressed tree of the genus Cunuria.

One River Wade Davis 1996

They came from a tree of medium size with a perfectly columnar, unbuttressed trunk covered in smooth bark of a yellowish hue.

One River Wade Davis 1996