How To Use Stark In A Sentence

Before you know it, all the Sandy Clarks and Billy Starks doing the media rounds are back in business until the next time they are given their jotters for failing to meet fans' expectations.
It was in stark contrast to her usual bohemian style. The Sun
Stark gave Izzard the warmest of welcomes and seems to have put no obstacle in the way of a biography.
It's beautiful, stark and entirely original. Times, Sunday Times
The slums and shanty towns stand in stark contrast to the multi-storey towers and the glamour of Bollywood.

Her later sensual works contrast starkly with the harsh earlier paintings.
Traditionally the life of a soldier involves long stretches of boredom punctuated by brief and seemingly unending moments of stark terror.
My father was quite a skinny, emaciated man, my brother a build a stark halfway between my father and I.
The hills stood stark against the winter sky.
In stark contrast to its nature during the foundational period in the 1970s and early 1980s, the Commission in large measure both sets the Community agenda and acts as a power broker in the legislative process.
Had Stark known from the beginning that the story of the upstate boyhood was all an invention?
I told him the unvarnished truth except for the part about you quivering stark naked with cold in the shower compartment. CORMORANT
As the leader of high-tech hearing products, Starkey (Suzhou) Hearing Technology Co. , Ltd. is now the manufacture center of Starkey global stratagem.
But most Democrats who are on the ballot in competitive races this year skittishly avoid such stark imagery.
Our notions of order and disorder stand in stark contrast to the dynamic artistry of the integral beauty of things as they are in nature.
We must Starkey for the provision of adequate playing time, he is like our sixth starter.
So the stark ontology of the mechanical philosopher is established a priori by appealing to a notion of intelligibility.
The sealed road wends its way across the stark Anti-Atlas and startling scenery appears after Igherm while descending the Akka Valley.
The outcomes from the two episodes stand in stark contrast to one another. Times, Sunday Times
Beneath, where even in August noonday, the sun cannot find its way by a chink, and babies lie stark naked in the cavernous shade, Allen Street presents a sort of submarine and greenish gloom, as if its humanity were actually moving through a sea of aqueous shadows, faces rather bleached and shrunk from sunlessness as water can bleach and shrink. Humoresque A Laugh on Life with a Tear Behind It
He's gone stark raving mad.
Walk into a state-of-the-art data center, and the stark, white-tile, raised-floor visage doesn't appear substantially changed from the days of keypunches and paper tape.
On the accounting and software loggia not from stark softening thevetia, but from an unary, yet acetic nihau of unappreciated aglow lexicostatistics. Rational Review
I have come to this world , stark - naked ; am I to back , blink, in the same stark - nakedness?
In a stark contrast between old and new, a traditional street food vendor in Acapulco prepares his wares in the shadow of a modern advertising image. In a stark contrast between old and new, a traditional street food vendor in Acapulco prepares his wares in the shadow of a modern advertising image. © Gerry Soroka, 2009
That reaction demonstrates the ticklish situation the press finds itself in during wartime, when the interaction between press and government comes into stark relief.
Now the silence settled over the garden was thick and heavy, a stark contrast to the chirping and tweeting he was so accustomed to.
Der Creaturen und also auch unsere Vollkommenheit bestehet in einem ungehinderten starken A Lecture on the Study of History
The difference between the two long hitters was stark. Times, Sunday Times
When offering his terms Starkey had talked in that bland way characteristic of him with strangers. The House of Cobwebs and Other Stories
She would like her story to be a stark warning to people buying home hair dye kits. The Sun
Mike Norton, a rookie border patrolman, is a stark contrast to the gentle Melquiades.
He rejoined the faculty in 1996 and now holds the Charles Stark Draper chair in aeronautics and astronautics.
Nevertheless her ‘Nightsong’, which incorporates and subtly updates a line from an Irish song, is very fine, as is the even more stark, shell-like vocal of ‘Psalm’.
When Nia walked into Rephaims house, the bright and festive dcor surprised her, a stark contrast to the rooms appearance when shed escaped earlier. The After Wife
And the moment with the discarded toys coming to life hits with stark terror and reminds us, if only for a moment, of the swarming mummies in Spielberg's great Raiders of the Lost Ark.
Mr. Reynolds 'opinions are in stark contrast to the core values of the Champaign County Republican Party and are personally offensive to me," party Chairman Jason Barickman told the News-Gazette. Al Reynolds, Tea Party Candidate For Illinois Senate, Says Black Men Prefer Drug Dealing To Education
Only the clean lines of the stage design serve to evoke the starkness of the northern landscape.
It was a stark room with its white walls, and a bed and chair as the only furniture.
No, if other things as great in the Church, and in the rule of life both economical and political, be not looked into and reformed, we have looked so long upon the blaze that Zuinglius and Calvin hath beaconed up to us, that we are stark blind. Areopagitica
He was completely starkers and had no bottoms on at all.
Walking starkers through the forest, incredibly agile, never get tired, killed a monkey in a tree with a blowpipe.
In combination with the dark, bass-heavy production, the performance is a stark contrast from the bubblegum smarm of the original, instead focusing on the song's essence: suicide and its extremes.
Questions can be stark, unelaborated; but answers have implications. Times, Sunday Times
We are not allowed to walk around starkers (or wear Nazi uniforms of white pointy hats) 3. Giving evidence to the Chilcot inquiry, Tony Blair said: “I...
In Germany huge swathes of the Black Forest died, leaving the stark outlines of leafless conifers in place of the formerly rich vegetation.
Slowly, her gaze traced up to his eyes; his eyelids fluttered open, and for a second, his gaze was unfocused, searching blindly upon the stark hospital ceiling.
All five cast members are stark naked as they observe us taking our seats. Times, Sunday Times
This starkly produced single combines a sultry female vocal with hypnotic electronics and shows Tricky at his subtle best. The Sun
I was stark naked but ran out into the street to direct them in. The Sun
Traditionally, cases of superfecundation have been discovered by the starkly different appearances of twins.
Its straggle of brightly-coloured box-like houses is dramatically set between steep stark mountains and a sound strewn, even at the height of midsummer, with huge stately icebergs.
Hahn is scheduled to announce tonight's game as a fill-in for Joe Starkey.
The threat of terrorists waging biological warfare on Britain was starkly underlined last night when the Government announced that it was acquiring enough smallpox vaccine to inoculate the entire population.
When they appeared in the dock they constituted the largest number of people ever to appear stark naked in a court room.
But the raw data represents a stark illustration of the problems facing forces nationwide as the society they police changes rapidly because of large-scale immigration. Times, Sunday Times
These theories contrast starkly with the reality of everyday life.
Amos and Jimmie Starkweather were all for sailing off this morning to bring the dory home," he continued, "but a boatload of the 'Somerset's' men stopped them and sent them ashore, threatening to dismast any sloop that put up a sail in this harbor without their permission. A Little Maid of Province Town
The bleak outlook in Europe contrasts starkly with a far more positive outlook in other regions. Times, Sunday Times
The Vegas audience of polyester-clad gamblers and middle-aged couples contrast starkly with the fag-puffing, beer-swilling crowds at home.
After offering up some thoughts about Green Lantern's costume, Reynolds told MTV News that the scenes in which Hal Jordan isn't in costume will likely be the most memorable from the film â€ much like Robert Downey Jr. 's time spent out of Tony Stark's armor in "Iron Man. EXCLUSIVE: Ryan Reynolds Says ‘Green Lantern’ Won’t Begin In Its Third Act » MTV Movies Blog
We were soon to meet Gerard Starkey, aka Ged, a man who, like Alex Stein in London, would provide me with an exotic tour of his city.
The variations increase in complexity towards a climactic restatement of the starkly modal theme.
It stood in stark contrast to what became known as "developmentalism" or "Third World nationalism" in the post-war developing world. Reviewing Naomi Klein's "The Shock Doctrine"
She had barely arrived at the international exhibition centre when she was handed a stark Brexit warning. Times, Sunday Times
To do otherwise faces America with the stark choice of going to War with Russia because some pettifogger who is Head of State in one of those Countries has a bone to pick, and picks it because NATO is with us, or withdrawing from the NATO Treaty rather than go to War. Ilan Goldenberg: The Powell Endorsement and the End of the Republican Foreign Policy Establishment
We do not see that, while we still affect by all means a rigid external formality, we may as soon fall again into a gross conforming stupidity, a stark and dead congealment of wood and hay and stubble, forced and frozen together, which is more to the sudden degenerating of a Church than many subdichotomies of petty schisms. Areopagitica
I feel a pang of guilt as I realise his destiny is a stark lab. The Sun
With heavy-lidded eyes, wide-open mouths or rubber-hosey limbs, Satrapi's characters convey everything from gleeful, kinetic action to stark terror to heart-rending anguish-which is perfectly fitting for the autobiographical Frames Per Second Magazine
By juxtaposing these elements, he not only achieves a variety in his compositions, but also employs means provided by a stark contrast in his experience as a tangentially urbanised painter.
This is the starkest, most distopian vision of a wireless future imaginable.
Is this why Arun Kolatkar's verse is intense, stark, echoic, potent?
Not actually starkers then; merely inappropriately clothed for his rank and status.
BASH (voice-over): Arlen Specter didn't show up for this Senate Judiciary Committee meeting, but his empty seat at the very end of the dais is a stark illustration of his new junior ranking since Democrats stripped his seniority on all committees. CNN Transcript May 6, 2009
Sometimes, stark images can speak for themselves and even narrate untold stories.
Dry stone walls may appear stark and lifeless, but they provide a valuable habitat for plants and animals.
Christian now looked torn between amusement and stark terror.
So the cover image of stark rootsiness, with McGarry eating straight from a can of black beans, really only tells part of the story. Westword | Complete Issue
I took in my new surroundings with considerable apprehension, all right - stark terror, which turned quickly to surprise.
Gray chairs and a dull gray carpet give the visiting area a stark, lifeless appearance.
These theories contrast starkly with the reality of everyday life.
This section of the highway cuts through the island's rough interior, offering travelers views of stark rocky mountains, shady eucalyptus groves around gurgling streams, and the omnipresent tan-and-green-dappled shrublands Italians refer to as Mediterranean macchia. Enjoy the Ride
His stark garage tunes - inflected by house and hip hop - celebrated late-night, low rent Britain in all its lairy glory.
Who would win the lightsaber duel anakin skywalker or starkiller from starwars the force unleashed? SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles - Part 1127
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It is Newman's ability to capture the riots' confusion, noise and incoherence that make the passage so stark yet believable.
Though Stark is sympathetic to these voices, her ire is raised by the question of private practice.
In a review for New Humanist of two recent books written by political bloggers - Liberal Fascism by National Review Online blogger Jonah Goldberg, and The Liberal Defence of Murder by Lenin's Tomb author Richard Seymour - he finds that in the transition to the printed page all the faults of those with 'blogorrhea' are starkly revealed: sloppy research, cheap name-calling, historical immaturity, overstatement, distortion, factual errors and near-endless repetition. New Humanist Blog
The history is stark and cruel yet today's peaceful setting is idyllic. Times, Sunday Times
On Thursday afternoon last at 3.30 pm a small number of people were wending their way along Carlow's widest street, in stark contrast to a few years back.
Forsooth she wondered that the stark and gruff old man was so changed to her in little space; for nought she knew as yet how the sight of her cast a hot gleed of love into the hearts of them who beheld her. The Water of the Wondrous Isles
Imagine paying a little money for a clean towel and a piece of soap, entering the men's or women's half of the establishment and stripping absolutely starkers for a scrub down, sauna and soak with the neighbours.
Philosophically, the term suggests an organic wholeness in stark opposition to the age of mechanical reproduction.
That is a simple stark example. Times, Sunday Times
This statement contrasts starkly with his previous statements.
The plant is a hive of activity, in stark contrast to what might have been. Times, Sunday Times
The ease of transplantation of tobacco stands in stark contrast to the caffeine crops.
Behind said gates, the initial view, unsoftened by age or by greenery, seems stark. Times, Sunday Times
Short and joyfully fuzzy indie pop, with chiming guitars and stark vocals. The Sun
The artist Alessandro Raho usually drapes his subjects in theatrical clothes but with Dame Judy he has opted for a simple white jacket against a stark white background.
In stark contrast to cytochalasin, treatment with nocodazole did not produce a loss of any features; instead there was an increase in the density of filaments.
I'm always amazed with the ease and indifference that patrons shed their stinky workout gear and parade around starkers.
I cannot fathom what kind of scenes he soundtracked as many of his songs have so many fragments of starkly different genres crammed in.
Rather than tinkering with tradition, he expands upon it with computer-generated hums and bleeps, tambourines and glockenspiel, warming the stark acoustic sound.
The threat of a ban on fishing for cod, whiting and haddock brings home the stark reality.
Indeed, this sense of starkness is echoed throughout the show; just 10 large scale gelatin silver emulsion prints were on show here.
the starkness of his contrast between justice and fairness was open to many objections
They wanted to portray the Picts as alien as possible just look at the paintings of stark naked Picts with tattoes everywhere, and since male succession was the norm in most of known history, matrilinear looked pretty exotic. The Female Royal Line: matrilineal succession amongst the Picts?
Plante's memoir, American Ghosts, is no less powerful and no less stark.
Until then, or until such times as the team's injury list shortens, Stark must rely on hope or good fortune to deliver that precious commodity.
Simple mathematics starkly outlined the scale of the difficulty for the handful of Southern Presbyterian missionaries who had elected to hold themselves responsible for saving the souls of ten million people in North Kiangsu. PEARL BUCK IN CHINA
The glitz and glamour was in stark contrast to the mostly dull, overcast weather.
They halted, she to sweep the scene before her, the vista of the wide lake, its waters dark and still, a black pit lying in a natural valley with a wooded hill looming beyond, an informal pinetum on rising ground to the right and, just visible in the weak light, the summerhouse on the far left shore, starkly white against a black backdrop of massed rhododendrons. The Perfect Lover
A bird, no, a _bird_ circled above him, a stark silhouette against the blue sky, with powerful wings of such size as Milleus had never seen. Books 2009
Arthur, with his sword holden in both his hands, on the side of the head, that the sword pierced the helmet and the brain-pan; and then Sir Modred fell stark dead upon the earth. The Age of Chivalry
On such a stark platform, it isn't until half a dozen songs in that the band really comes alive.
There is a stark contrast between the lives of the rich and those of the poor.
Hip-Hop artist, QuestLove, draws stark parallels between Fela's life and music and the rebellion, raw and undiluted, that is evident in hip-hop. Kirsten West Savali: The Life and Legacy of Fela Kuti
So you see, all things considered, it would be much better for you to return to your own people -- ahem -- _own people_," said Mr. Starkweather, with emphasis. The Girl from Sunset Ranch Or, Alone in a Great City
Recalls Johnny Cash's visit to Starkville, Mississippi long ago ( "Just pickin 'daisies"). The mystery tramp (Jack Bog's Blog)
One can only imagine the stark terror experienced by these young people during this horrendous event.
The damaged church was preserved as a stark reminder of the horrors of war.
A black leather suite was arranged around a white marble fireplace standing starkly against slate-grey walls and carpet.
That was the stark choice outlined by City of York council leader Steve Galloway last week when details of next year's central Government grant to councils were announced.
For example: Life like a razor can shave you clean Or it cuts in a moment to leave you to bleed Not too bad a simile (I guess), but it's lead off for the song Fly High seems a bit too stark -- I continually find myself chagrining my last battle with the morning razor, and missing the next 15 or so seconds of the song. Latest reviews @ Progarchives.com, the ultimate progressive rock music website
The many juvenile harriers working the mound wore their orange winter plumage, a stark contrast to the hawk's black, white, and brown feathering.
It is a stark contrast with the more substantial resources of her British counterparts. Times, Sunday Times
Watkins also loved trees, making stark portraits of the redwood, Arbutus, buckeye, sugar pine, cactus, Yucca, Douglas fir and giant mariposa, which he declared "A Perfect Tree. His Best Shot
He rarely bucked or challenged the corrupt status quo - in stark contrast to his image as a reformer. Times, Sunday Times
The walls and sea floor consist of stark boulders and rough seams of rock uncolonised by sedentary species.
It was colored white, a stark contrast to the fuliginous coloring of its companion unit.
South African author Roland Starke is given a prominent credit as all writers are in Frears's films, something that derives from his apprenticeship at the Royal Court, our pre-eminent writers 'theatre. Britain's best film directors show some early promise
It explores the debt that he owed to the stark lighting and shadows of the film set, to the camera's framing devices and to special effects. Times, Sunday Times
The stark statement of the facts was followed by a panegyric which was the soul and model of obsequiousness. THE SCAR
His loyalty to his party is in stark contrast to the actions of his old colleague Brian Sedgemore, the former MP for Hackney South who chose the middle of the election to defect to the Liberal Democrats.
a stark interior
Stark murder 12 / 09 / 07 Spokane, WA * wife Shellye arrested for his murder* Bonnie's Blog of Crime
The Andean sun bears down, harsh and strong, in stark contrast to a chilly wind blowing from the mountain.
` ` Die Ausrottung der Besten, die jenen schwä'cheren Volken die Vernichtung brachte, hat die starken Germanen erst befähigt, auf den Trummern der antiken Welt neue dauerende Gemeinschaften zu errichten. '' The Scientific Monthly, October-December 1915
We are starkly aware of the risks.
There are stark variants in performance trust by trust that are not explained by cash injections. Times, Sunday Times
This is a stark indicator of the fall in monetary growth since the end of the cold war.
Or possibly it was the stony track itself and those immense stark mountain views. Times, Sunday Times
She realized with a shock that she was stark naked.
Mrs Starky accused the local police of operating double standards.
As a nation, we are right to finally confront the stark reality of needless suffering among the dying.
The black rocks stood out starkly against the sky.
The black fatality of those words seemed to stand out, stark and clear in the deep night, as though limned with her own life's blood.
The author paints a stark picture of life in a prison camp.
As they got older, Starkie says, he found Peter increasingly "dislikable" and "arrogant. The Devil and W.W.D.
It should be stylish yet classic, sleek and modern, but not stark.
The threat contrasted starkly with his administration's previous muted criticism.
Even on stark issues like abortion, there can be no simple equation between the church and any political program or party.
There are tables and chairs for the notional interiors; the stark silhouettes of leafless trees are picked out against white walls; at one end some wooden frames denote an old, abandoned silver mine.
a stark landscape
When it comes to the stark lack of footfall, Cooper claims that plans are in place to improve the situation.
In the film's madhouse passages, the grim mise en scene contrasts starkly with the warm glow of nightclubs and cabarets.
Most tend to begin by either drawing gentle curves or straight lines on the daisyphone, creating rising or falling note progressions or a stark-sounding chords respectively.
The threat contrasted starkly with his administration's previous muted criticism.
She still has her ballerina-thin figure and still paints cherry-red streaks through her chocolate-brown hair; the contrast is as stark as her customers 'paintings, which line the store's entrance hall and make shoppers feel smug about their own art. Toile - French Word-A-Day
The stark rock, fading lower green fields, and deep blue of the ocean comes as a shock after the flat lush landscape and bluff coastline that characterises the rest of the county.
We were confronted by an almost Martian environment of stark rock in a wide assortment of hues and a silence completely unnatural to our modern world of beeps, buzzes and designer cell phone rings.
He was led, gibbering, by his mum into the stark light of a side exit.
However, he has been mortally wounded, so passes it on to Stark. Archive 2010-05-01
For Peckinpah, the film was a stark departure from his blood-drenched action westerns.
The brutal cut-outs stand in effective stark contrast to the gentle, slow art of pinhole photography.
They often wandered around the house stark naked .
Or, to phrase the matter more simply and starkly, our religion is one of very comfortable nihilism.
Reading the whipping as a text, we see a stark contrast between the calculus that determined the use of the whip under slavery and the orgy of violence that Moore was alleged to have endured.
He plays in stark contrast to how he looks. Times, Sunday Times
In recent memory, though, they have taken a much greater zeal toward stamping out allegations against Democrats, particularly President Obama, a stark contrast to the kidglove or even promotional attitude they took toward books by liberal authors alleging all sorts of anti-Bush absurdities. Latest Articles
He has a point: it would hardly be right to wear a sparkly suit and tight trousers while singing stark, sepulchral songs about death, pain and sorrow in a voice like the wind whistling through his old Appalachian bones.
The circumstances presented themselves starkly in relation to the number of possibilities for the introduction of such highly prejudicial evidence of uncharged acts against the mother.
Then, as a group, they cried out in stark terror and rushed away.
The compensation offered to the innocent detainees by the West German government was "politically scandalous," says Berlin historian Meinhard Stark today.
The peddler melammed [teacher], going from door to door with siddur and Humash in hand, teaching boys and girls their aleph-bet, or the Old World rabbi confronting scores of boys in a basement heder, stood in stark contrast to the modern public school, with its imposing building and its corps of well-trained American teachers. Education of Jewish Girls in the United States.
The landscape was grey and stark.
Stark warnings and a constant bombardment of information on the fragile nature of Earth's environment surround us on a weekly basis.
I had never heard a voice like his, or lyrics so stark and powerful.
This stark palette fades to sepia, then finally emerges into full color.
Rooms are stark white with flashes of blue, and distressed furniture. Times, Sunday Times
I locked myself out of my house, stark naked and got caught by Mike.
The cut in top salary is one of the most stark examples of pay restraint seen in the quangocracy. Times, Sunday Times
It was unflattering, stark white, and short in length with a high-collared bolero jacket. My Fair Wedding
Likewise, flower boxes can hang on the deck's railings with azaleas and begonias brightening up that stark wood deck.
This morning, I trudged through the knee-high drifts of wolves to bring you a picture which sums up the stark terror facing this country.
Passed Your Place, Saw Your Car, Thought of You" is built on stark electric piano and the chintziest Casio beat you could imagine. AltWeeklies.com Site Feed
But when you arrive at the Comme il faut showroom, its stark simplicity comes as a great surprise. Terence Clarke: The Sweep of an Elegant Toe: Comme il faut, Buenos Aires
Their attitudes towards love and marriage stand in stark contrast to those of their parents.
Not only that, she used the starkly simple laboratory bottle for selling the new perfume.
Several of his late ebauches, or sketches, predate in their impetuous composition and stark colour the work of the Fauve painters.
Exquisitely bewhiskered; stark, white antenna, straight as power lines, centred on his nose, dynamically oscillating. BEHINDLINGS
The extreme poverty of the local people is in stark contrast to the wealth of the tourists.
A delicate paper triptych titled Menstruation Carnations used pencil and blood to define three starkly outlined, centralized flowers.
And the people of these times are something less easily hoodwinked, I think, by such stark foolery. MAN'S LOVING FAMILY
The divide between the eastern seaboard and the rural interior is stark.
Rosemary cannot comb her wet hair in front of the mirrors, because odds on someone will be standing next to her starkers, so she has to scurry home, hair tangled and flustered. Why do people bare so much flesh?
The bleak outlook in Europe contrasts starkly with a far more positive outlook in other regions. Times, Sunday Times
You get nowt for nowt, and the current collapsing values of private and occupational pensions have been a stark warning of the dangers of betting your future on the financial markets.
They spoke of every-day things, of the prospect of snow, of the next church sociable, of the loves and quarrels of Starkfield.

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