1.   His discomfort, his near contempt for the give-and-take of promotion is as naked as his shaven head.

2.   I was as naked as my lust.

3.   In the middle of the lawn last week there was a solitary sunbather, as naked as the day she was born.

4.   They were as naked as the woman, and unarmed.

5.   And then I posed naked as Adam with an apple dangling above my head, in really cool Caravaggio lighting with baby spots on my biceps.

6.   He could not erase from his mind the image of Angela Powers, naked as a newborn, shimmering wet in the moonlight.

7.   The crouching woman is naked as the day she was born, if not more so.

8.   Unfortunately for the cause of public debate, most of these works are about as naked as a hand or a bald head in their obviousness.