While refreshingly free in treatment, these nature-inspired melodies are nevertheless designed, not casual.

As a result, his life had been refreshingly free of such distractions.

And the book he has worked on for 10 years is intelligent, playful and refreshingly free of cant.

His attitude toward contemporary music was refreshingly free of agenda.

His article was refreshingly free of moral sermons.

Refreshingly free of shrink-speak, the treatment was short-term and useful.

They are refreshingly free of the 'attitude' that makes many bands so tedious to interview.

There was a Midtown party yesterday, however, that was refreshingly free of conversational monopolists.

And on the inside, too, there is a generous soul refreshingly free of artifice, one that sees the good in life not bad.

The result is a tone that is refreshingly free of hedging and qualification.