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Los Angeles Times art critic Christopher Knight, who offers several unvarnished opinions here, asserts that Kinkade “had a quite outsized cultural impact with really bad art.”

In this unfiltered, unvarnished portrait of the artist, Sheff succeeds magnificently in bringing one of popular music’s most divisive and misunderstood personae to life.

He also called on America to live up to its highest ideals, which required a hard look in the mirror and an unvarnished appreciation of facts.

The president shared his unvarnished opinion of the country he leads during a Wednesday night interview on Fox News' "The Ingraham Angle."

The implication, of course, was that his own administration would be an unvarnished advocate for, and defender of, the liberal value of free speech.