The light was diffused and cold, all objects having a certain bareness of effect, deficient in shadow.

The smell of tobacco smoke and a certain bareness of wall and floor suggested a bachelor's home.

Some of the best are richly adorned, but there is a certain bareness and an absence of color.

There was an orchard behind it, and a nicely kept lawn before it, but, somehow, there was a certain bareness about it.

A man must be clothed with society, or we shall feel a certain bareness and poverty, as of a displaced and unfurnished member.