He had come prepared to admire the grand achievement of Burnham’s army of workers but instead found himself troubled by what he saw in the stark frozen landscape. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

It was stark and unadorned in its construction in a way Cora had never seen before, as if to announce its efficiency in its very walls. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

He hit me, tried to do bodily harm to me, and logic, sense, all thinking went right out the door, and I reacted automatically, in sheer, stark terror. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Bethe’s stark conclusion that “it seems useless to build cyclotrons of larger proportions than the existing ones” appeared at a delicate and potentially mortifying moment for the Rad Lab. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Even in the shelter of the cave, away from the wind, the earth was stark and cold. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

His Adam’s apple stood out stark against the flesh of his neck. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

He was a stark man, square-built, with a hard mouth. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

His towering frame, slick suit, and dark skin put him in stark contrast to everyone else around. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

The stark white walls were devoid of decoration. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

His bright red underwear stands in stark contrast against his white skin. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh,” the chaplain exclaimed with a look of stark remorse, the back of his hand covering his mouth. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Press another and my stark chin begins to glow. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

I have always hated the emptiness that winter brings, the blank landscape and the stark difference between sky and ground, the way it transforms trees into skeletons and the city into a wasteland. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

His voice was stark, bereft of the power of dissembling which full consciousness brings. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even societies built on the idea of eliminating class have had stark differences in rank. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

“Mary Webster called at the crack of dawn. Said you two were seen stark in the middle of the river last night at one o’clock!” Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

The upper right screen is sometimes black, sometimes a stark and startling white. Monster 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z

In The Magnolia Jungle the juxtaposition of the best of these columns against a background of stark horror gives a striking effect. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Of course Archimedes forgot that he was stark naked. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

In stark contrast, she also carries the deep concern and gentleness I first saw yesterday in her anxiety for her little brother. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

“You are zugangi, newcomers, the lowest of the low,” the tall, dark-haired woman said to them as they huddled in the stark barracks room. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

But from a distance it had a stark and unprotected look. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Stuart Symington, the secretary of the Air Force, articulated Americans' fears in their starkest terms. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

One year, our tributes were stark naked and covered in black powder to represent coal dust. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

At one end of the town stands a stark old stucco structure, the roof of which supports an electric sign— DANCE—but the dancing has ceased and the advertisement has been dark for several years. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

When she checked on Sammy she saw that he had taken off his shorts and underpants and was standing stark naked over the cucumber plants. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

The rooms hidden behind the multitude of tents in Le Cirque des Rêves are a stark contrast to the black and white of the circus. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

For months I lived stark naked except for the whistle that dangled from my neck by a string. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

She was afraid of her father, and she admired him profoundly, and she thought he was stark mad; but who was she to judge? The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

The ground lies stark in the pale light, and then the darkness shuts down again blacker than ever. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

But his messages, in stark contrast to Jesse’s feisty determination, were grim. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was all tall archways and gold foil wallpaper, too decadent to resemble the stark hospital rooms we knew from our checkups. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

He knew that, unlike the human eye, photographic film didn’t easily handle bright whites and stark blacks. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

Grief appeared alone at daybreak, her black sails stark against the pale pink skies of morning. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Then she turned slowly to the right, almost as if in slow motion, as she saw Dad come running out of the house, a look of stark alarm on his face. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

Soon the stark battlements of Elsinore rose against the blue sky. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

On Dedication Day even the press was polite enough to overlook the stark appearance of the grounds and the unfinished feel of the Manufactures and Liberal Arts Building. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

After a week’s labor, she had the three stark images: boy—inn—fish. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

And it must be noted that the surrounding country where they were located was stark desert and not exactly crawling with wildlife. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

An American flag, stark and lonely against the violet sky, whipped back and forth on the brass flagpole. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

The mechanical pounding stopped suddenly, making the silence feel stark. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Tufts of grass poked out from a few shady spots, but mostly, it was dry and stark. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

High on his left arm, a tattoo of a red cobra, fanged, coiled, and ready to strike, stood in stark relief to his pale, freckled skin. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The ink-black wedge of the summit pyramid stood out in stark relief, towering over the surrounding ridges. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

With anguish and a stark glimmer of...something—redemption?—he whispered, “She's alive.” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

The stark and sobering reality is that, for reasons largely unrelated to actual crime trends, the American penal system has emerged as a system of social control unparalleled in world history. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

The Warden had dark circles under her eyes from lack of sleep, and lines across her forehead and face which seemed exaggerated in the stark morning light. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

It reminded Aru of walking to school on a cold February morning, when the sun was bright but distant and everything was a little too stark. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

The three others stood still, watching Ralph; and he saw that the tallest of them, stark naked save for paint and a belt, was Jack. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

He stared up at the sky in stark astonishment and horror. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Over that is stitched the stark outlines of trees, the way I see them from my window as dusk is falling. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Little younguns swarmed in this filth, the smaller of them stark naked. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

There’s a stark silence as Liberty, in her full punk glory, glares down at the audience. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Another cliff-ghast and then a third fell in the stream or on the rocks nearby, stark dead; and then the rest fled, skirling and chittering into the dark toward the north. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Moreover, the idea of action at a distance–that one particle could instantaneously influence another trillions of miles away–was a stark violation of the special theory of relativity. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

She gestured at a small boy—stark naked—who was sleeping behind her. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

He was a huge guy with stark white hair, a straw cowboy hat, and a braided white beard—kind of like Father Time, if Father Time went redneck and got totally jacked. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

He grins at me and his face is no longer stark, no longer severe. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

As we rose out of the highway trough, we could see the condemned houses, many burned, as well as the stark beauty of all the vacant lots, gray and frozen. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

He liked the easygoing camaraderie of it, the simple, stark maleness of it. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The thing that finally drove them from Lorimer Street was stark raw sex. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

A millionaire businessman and a prominent Catholic layman, Murray framed his position in stark moral terms. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

He looked out across the dark field, could see nothing but the yellow lights and outlines of black bodies stark in the lightning. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

A sudden and stark silence fell over the world, broken only by the distant cries of a bird. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

The meeting room was a stark white setting, with mahogany straight-back chairs. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She held up the dress so that it blocked the blood stains on the canvas, which were stark on the fabric from the streetlamps outside. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

A sea of faces, some hostile, some amused, ringed around us, and in the center, facing us, stood a magnificent blonde—stark naked. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

In those days he patrolled with a black umbrella but eventually surrendered and now his white blouses were stark against his tanned flesh. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

He and Nasser had not spoken much, but the contrast in being alone was stark. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

In her black attire, she was a stark contrast to the whiteclad ones who’d just been there, but a smile touched her withered face. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

The smaller bonobo had a wide sweet face and ribs stark, like pencils in a row. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

I flayed with tears in my eyes, teeth clenched, stark fear making me throw every ounce of my strength behind each blow. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

At least the texts, while not exactly a deus ex machina, reveal a stark truth: Kareem isn’t the one. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

And then she opened her eyes to stark incandescence, squinting at Scythe Curie, who was standing in the doorway, by the light switch. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

The Georgia Supreme Court ruled, by a 4–3 vote, that the stark racial disparity presented a threshold case of discrimination and required the prosecutors to offer a race-neutral explanation for the results. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

The stark pallor gave way to soft blossoms of color as her yellowed, paper-thin skin warmed. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

To the public the choice may easily appear to be one of stark black-or-white simplicity: Shall we have birds or shall we have elms? Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

The central cavity of the massive room is so stark and white, I blink hard, thinking I must be in the wrong place. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

From there, we went to the police station, where I was told to step into a small, stark room that had nothing but a table, a couple chairs, and a computer in it. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

His hair, now stark white, sat high on his head. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

I musta stood there stark stone still for half an hour. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

I sink to my knees on the cold tile and squint at the flower, as the whiteness seems hard to focus on in the stark fluorescent light. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Their suits are blue, a stark contrast against the steel walls around them. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The next morning, I wake at dawn in a stark raving panic. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

A notable element of all these East-West rivalries was that the western rep-resentatives nearly always seemed to embody certain attributes that stood in stark contrast to those of their eastern counterparts. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Then there’s a hum of a generator, and a dim wavering glow replaces the stark lighting that is the norm in 13. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

I looked for a crowbar—anything!—but the stark room was totally bare. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

To me the illusions and fantasy of the movies were the stark reality of a world I was forbidden to enter. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

These stark racial disparities cannot be explained by rates of drug crime. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

“That’s something new. My teeth go funny on me. They’re chattering. I nearly bit through a glass the day before yesterday. Maybe I’m stark, staring mad and don’t know it.” Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

A grim specter has crept upon us almost unnoticed, and this imagined tragedy may easily become a stark reality we all shall know. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Then I force myself to open my eyes and face the stark desert. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

A Lakota winter count memorialized the year 1784 with a stark image: a pox-scarred man, alone in a tipi, shooting himself. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Ernie yelled, his face stark white, pointing his finger dramatically at Harry. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

That was a stark, powerful reality that the gentle conveniences and luxuries of this house, of now, could not touch. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

A gigantic metal Bayside Press emblem hung behind the stark wall of a receptionist’s desk. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

In the dying light, only its stark silhouette was visible; what it contained within was veiled in shadow. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

They crossed into a field and plodded on toward a distant stand of trees skylighted stark and black against the last of the visible world. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

Some hours, eighty or ninety of these flares would go off, one after another, and the night would turn stark and strange in that magnesium glow. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Here the Continental Army had suffered through a winter of their own, and the vast, stark, frozen desolation itself seemed a more proper monument than statues and stones. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

But for all its laid-back inclusiveness, Oakland is also a city of stark contrasts. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Behind her stood her brothers—two young men with purple-feathered wings, stark white hair, and jagged swords of Celestial bronze. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

The words Tsimtsum and Panama were printed on each side of the bow in stark, black, roman capitals. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

The sharp angles of the plum twigs, their blackness stark amid the airy white blossoms. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

Their doorways gaped like mouths and their windows gleamed like eyes, so that each one of them looked like the stark, empty face of a multi-eyed demon. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ugwu felt sorry for him and yet angry, too, because the teenager’s crying made the hopelessness of their situation stark and final. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

My mother, listening to this debate, couldn’t fail to notice the stark contrasts between her two suitors. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The next is blue, with the Seattle Seahawks logo stenciled in stark white and silver, plus the number 12; the 1 is shaped like the Space Needle. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

It was the man he’d seen not ten minutes before, stark dead in the bushes with his throat cut. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

His lab was stark white, and it sat on the water—not a building at the edge of the water, like the aquarium. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

It would have been easier to see her through the gauze, but instead I looked down on the stark face that seemed suddenly so empty and evil. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

It would be terrible if it wore out and she had to arrive in Zimbabwe stark naked! A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

This was the second time tonight she had been surprised by the stark dissonance between a face and a mind. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

And behind her, a second self, her stark shadow against the back wall of the garage — he saw that too. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

He saw no approaching monsters—nothing but the stark gray wasteland. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

As they rear and hiss and jump at each other you are distracted by the fact that they are both no longer stark white but a perfect ebony black. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Had Jean Harlow been dancing stark naked around the sixteenth pole, the press box could not have cleared out any faster. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The other chairs were all occupied except two—a stark reminder that Zart and Gaily had been taken by the Grievers. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

The stark truth is that she will die sooner than later. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

She's not little enough any more to go stark staring mad in the toy department, but she enjoys horsing around and looking at the people. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

She was peering in, behind him, and on her face was a great and stark fear; it made her look stripped down to nothing, like a skull with gaping holes as eyes. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“This child is going to wind up stark raving mad!” The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The tracks under my feet rattled as a stark white light suddenly bathed the darkness. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

They walked around stark naked in the eternal twilight of the basement, defying the humidity and drafts. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Candace and I found our way to the school’s gymnasium, which had obviously been modernized, as it stood in stark contrast to the gothic buildings surrounding it. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Later, and little by little, feelings, like sea trash expelled on a beach—strange and recognizable, stark and murky—returned. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

His stark questions caught me in a stranglehold. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

This was in stark contrast to the white tennis body, S.A.L.T.U. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

The pines along the road pointed up so straight and stark against the blue of the sky that it seemed like the clouds might catch on them. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

The garbage dumps had been blown clear of snow and stood out stark and ugly against the white. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

The fuss feels unwarranted as they step into a stark, sunken dining room. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

I can feel it now, the light searing my retinas, everything stark and white, horrifying. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Also, even though technology is not classified as “addictive,” some neuroscience points to stark similarities between how technology use and drug use trigger chemical release in the brain. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

The dragons stood out stark on his bare arms, curling up around his Adam’s apple like spikes. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

He was a stunted little man with knobby knees and a balding head and a nose like a used pencil eraser, and he was stark naked and slimed head to toe with sticky, translucent gel. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Below them, down a gravel embankment, was a stark line of low barracks. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The massive wheels tore deep trenches into the hard soil, the engine screamed, and my world contracted to noise and the stark, blinding headlight. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

On the far side of the river valley the road passed through a stark black burn. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

In stark contrast to two nights ago, when I felt Peeta was a million miles away, I'm struck by his immediacy now. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

The scant vegetation lent the quarry an air of stark desolation. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Their hoods are thrown back, revealing their unsettlingly stark features, and, led by Cain, they ghost across the grass and form a half circle around the Commandant’s dais. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

The rising sun played across the Bed-Stuy rooftops, glinted against windowpanes, and cast stark shadows down the avenues and walkways. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

They’re beautiful and stark against the sky, and I imagine how stunning the moonrise will be if we can see it this evening, a silver crescent hanging above the summit. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

They looked strange and terrible in the moonlight both stark naked, with their silver steel glancing under the harvest moon. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the brilliant glare of the moon the only colors were stark black and dead white, and every edge was jagged and every surface bare. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Both of them sat stark still and listened as it drew inexorably nearer. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

It cut a stark contrast to the impressive municipal offices and other tall, well-manicured downtown buildings of this historic city, where, in 1877, Brigham Young delivered his final sermon. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

He saw her tear-wet eyes looking at him in stark fear and he remembered that no one had seen him leave his room. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

He is mad, stark, raving mad, and it’s no use my trying to stop him. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

It’s even more beautiful than Santa Fe’s, but my stomach knots in disgust knowing I have to return to the stark ship. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Below and ahead of them, lit up like a ghastly funfair, was a rectangle of stark, garish white light desecrating an otherwise blacked-out landscape. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Vincent has been eager to show Theo the stark beauty of the area; later he hopes to show him the drawings he's been making. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Did she see it in stark relief because she had been away from it? Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

I am overcome with grief, with loss, with the stark misery of being alone. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

A stark warning issued by survival school instructors flashed through his mind—never wear wedding rings into combat. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

The front room is painted stark white, the other one—the bedroom—is glossy black. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Laila pictured herself in a refugee camp, a stark field with thousands of sheets of plastic strung to makeshift poles flapping in the cold, stinging wind. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

The two weeks in Pretoria opened my eyes fully to the stark realities of black tennis. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ahead of me spread a vast, stark world of winter-dead trees. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

At this moment he and they saw the challenge in its two most fundamental dimensions, time and money, and these were stark enough. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Her concern is unexpected, in stark contrast with her hostility toward us. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

Emasculated by dams and diversion canals, the lower Colorado burbles indolently from reservoir to reservoir through some of the hottest, starkest country on the continent. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

She smiles at me, and her teeth look stark white like the keys of a piano. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

A thick fog lay in the valley below, a smoldering cauldron of white from which only the treetops protruded, stark and Dantesque. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

But all in all, maybe showing up stark naked in that chariot would have been safer for me. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

After eighteen sentences that mix wistful nostalgia with abstract philosophizing, the reverie is punctured by a stark revelation. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

When he dropped his coat over her shoulders she realized she was standing stark naked in the presence of a preacher. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

It was too stark, not redeemed, not made real with the reality that was the warm blood of life. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

You could see how stark and empty it was from up here; windowless keeps, crumbling walls, courtyards choked with broken stone. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The Sierra Madre mountains are so stark and impossibly tall that they fill me with an inexplicable panic. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

In stark contrast to the darkness of his hair, though, his eyes are limpid and blue. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

For a heartbeat, she saw the king with stark clarity. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Perhaps the starkest of these divisions was between South Africa’s two dominant groups, the Zulu and the Xhosa. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

My room is stark—a narrow bed, a small table, a bare lightbulb, an old chest of drawers for my clothes. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was always there, stark and steady, rarely abating. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Cole tensed his arm to throw away the stark reminder of his mauling, but paused. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

The stark gray sky and bare tree limbs feel more suited to her than the uncomplicated promise of sunny spring days. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Over the hill crest, stark against the clouds, rose two figures on horseback. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

Or maybe it’s an effect of the stark white light, illuminating just her face. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

A flashlight beam focused on the weeds; in its glare their half-dead stalks appeared stark, menacing. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

There were stark differences of opinion, and tempers flared, but by daybreak the group had agreed to a plan of action. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

What stopped her from saying more was the policeman himself, who took off his mirrored sunglasses to reveal stark white eyes. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

I noted that his cheek and lip fuzz was missing and his eyebrows were now separated by a stark white space of skin rather than the unruly mess of hairs that had been there before. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

Covering the length and breadth of the fabric is a stark swastika painted in splotchy black gunk. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

Many of the trees were yet covered with leaves; the undergrowth was thicker; the land less stark than the hills around Dark Gate. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

The mechanical pounding stopped suddenly, making the silence feel stark. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

He rode with Scythe Volta in an off-grid Rolls Royce perfectly maintained since the Age of Mortality, the scythe’s yellow robe in stark contrast to the dark earth tones of the vehicle’s interior. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

“They wouldn’t know the first thing to do with a woman, even if one walked stark naked into their bedroom.” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

The vacancy was suddenly replaced by a stark terror that darkened her eyes. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

A simple exercise but he loved the ordered lines, the neatness, the stark beauty of planes and angles. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

We have to take things as lightly as we can, so we make the most of every opportunity, and nonsense stands stark and immediate beside horror. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

The dividing line between Lacks Town and the rest of Clover was stark. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

In stark contrast to people’s fears, the Thunderhead did not seize power. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

After a nurse in a stark white uniform checked her name off a list, Cora joined the group of women. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Lydia sat in her bedroom at her stark, modern desk, bought on an Ikea run to Atlanta. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

Miss Sadie held up her hand, shielding herself from the stark light of day. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

The blog posts would be in a stark, readable font. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

A fire sprang up instantly: It gave the illusion of coziness to the stark stone walls and glistened off the long wooden table. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

My parents went up for the ceremony in the Juilliard chapel, which, I gathered, was stark in word and dress, but rich in Bach and Mozart, thanks to Caroline’s school friends. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thomas hesitated, feeling one last moment of stark terror—hearing the horrible sounds behind him, seeing the illusion in front of him—then snapped out of it. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

The tree branches would be stark and, with their leaves fallen, wear a kind of proud desolation. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

How startling then to hear the simple stark oath of office offered and accepted. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cole’s pulse quickened as he eyed the familiar stark brick building. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

"Do as my lady mother says," Robb commanded, "and make certain there's a strong guard around him. Lord Kar- stark will want his head on a pike." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

A gigantic metal Bayside Press emblem hung behind the stark wall of a receptionist’s desk. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

There was a calm in the wind and the bright sunlight made everything stark and harsh. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

And I acknowledged the stark choice now being put before the country. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“I’ll take one pair,” I mumbled, and I’m sure my face was stark red. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

The family unloaded the car in a daze and followed the caseworker through a doorway into a stark ground-floor apartment with mattresses on the floor. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

I was stark terrified, if you want to know. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

As Blunt was getting into the Rolls-Royce, the driver leaned down to open the back door and his jacket fell open, revealing a stark white shirt underneath. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

Board of Education was a place of stark contrasts in black and white. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Just stark bright lights that you see long after closing your eyes. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Her room always made him feel wistful and envious for the abundance in which she dwelled—a stark contrast with his even starker room. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

And so Chess saw in stark detail that Mom was staring straight at him, her desperate wince full of not just anguish but hope—and maybe even faith as well—as she pleaded, “Kids, please.” The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Just as I thought they would all go stark raving mad, a taxi pulled up outside. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

She had no idea, this cousin who had grown up in the village, who looked at the world with stark and insensitive eyes. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

The band knows how to hang on a riff until it turns stark and forbidding. Lollapalooza Day 1: Black Sabbath, Black Keys and Passion Pit's black thoughts 2012-08-04T06:11:00Z

Her stark black-and-white photographs often respond to the violence inflicted on her community. Museum & Gallery Listings for May 22-28 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z

Cormac McCarthy, who died on Tuesday at the age of 89, was renowned for stark and violent novels of the American South and West that were distinguished by a merciless vision and nearly biblical prose. A Guide to Cormac McCarthy’s Books 2023-06-13T04:00:00Z

The stark metallics were followed by the signature Lanvin jewelry at the neck and by patterns of roses that started with one bloom, the floral effects growing with each dress. Special Report: Fashion: Lanvin Under the Willow Tree 2011-03-04T19:17:10Z

In stark contrast to Ray’s acuity we have Ani. True Detective season two, episode four recap – Down Will Come 2015-07-13T04:00:00Z

These photographs resonate because they are visually striking: stark, aggressive, carefully composed. Southern California, End of the Line 2016-09-13T04:00:00Z

And then the literary landmark stood before me: stark, solid, sacrosanct. In Search of Virginia Woolf’s Lost Eden in Cornwall 2018-02-26T05:00:00Z

As war erupted between the two countries, Russian artists have faced a stark choice, too: stay in Russia and support President Vladimir V. Putin’s war, or protest, stop performing and flee. A Pop Star Tried to Reconcile Russia and Ukraine. War Ruined That. 2022-07-07T04:00:00Z

Strout has an extraordinary gift of emotional precision in showing loneliness, miscommunication and self-doubt in such a stark yet compassionate way. Review | The best new audiobooks for your Thanksgiving drive 2019-11-19T05:00:00Z

My favorites: the images by Tomas Van Houtryve, who does work with drones, creating stark images that raise all manner of questions about the surveillance state. Roundup: Cartoon event canceled, Marina's memoir, Leonard Nimoy art podcast 2015-03-02T05:00:00Z

The writing of code and the writing of fiction exist for him in tense equipoise; “the stark determinisms of code,” he writes, “were a welcome relief from the ambiguities of literary narrative.” How to Understand Your Computer 2014-09-12T04:00:00Z

But she hasn’t abandoned classical music: A new album of Schubert songs features intriguingly if unremittingly stark interpretations. Review: Natalie Dessay, After Opera Left Her 2017-04-27T04:00:00Z

"On Ash Wednesday, the stark reminder was given that we are dust and unto dust we shall return," he said. First Sunday of Lent: Reflect, repent as 'sin and darkness' show themselves in Russia-Ukraine war 2022-03-06T05:00:00Z

Most songs are in stark minor keys, and hope is never guaranteed. New From Roots, Travie McCoy, Jason Moran and Nina Nastasia 2010-06-20T23:48:00Z

The revolution in the recreational drug market is a stark reminder of this reality. Why the war on drugs has been made redundant 2013-06-15T23:05:01Z

In the Westport production, Andrew Jackness’s set is on target, looking like the deck and facade, in fact, of just about every fashionably stark beach house of that period and place. | Connecticut: Isolation and Mortality by the Swimming Pool 2011-07-24T04:10:03Z

In the close-up, we come face to face with the stark white mass itself, and it’s surprising just how alien and difficult to parse it is. Beauty in the Aftermath 2023-02-18T05:00:00Z

The roster does little to dispel the recent criticisms of the genre’s stark gender disparity. FarmBorough Festival, a Country Music Kickoff in the Big City 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z

It was so big and stark, but also so beautiful.” From Alaska to Iceland, Breaking Barriers to Arctic Travel 2015-09-22T04:00:00Z

Though the movie’s scenes of Mr. DeNiro’s character sleeping on the street in the cold are a stark depiction of a harsh reality, Mr. Weitz worked to focus on the individual. Paul Weitz Directs ?Being Flynn,? Starring Robert DeNiro 2012-02-24T19:34:17Z

In Karlberg’s stark photographs, these many inequities seem simultaneously highlighted and erased. Giving Birth in Different Worlds 2015-09-22T04:00:00Z

Mr. Lasser, who set part of his previous novel, “The Year That Follows,” in Detroit as well, writes convincingly of the stark distinctions between white and black society in his native city. Books of The Times: ‘Say Nice Things About Detroit,’ Scott Lasser’s New Novel 2012-08-28T21:15:58Z

He called that company Homestead Modern — acknowledging the area’s history as a D.I.Y. homesteader’s paradise and nodding to the architectural movement that had spread so many glass-and-steel structures throughout the stark lunar landscape at midcentury. In the Desert With Jackrabbits and Clint Eastwood 2019-10-01T04:00:00Z

Most important, when it came to dealing with foreign espionage on our own soil, our first president offered a lesson in leadership that marks a stark contrast from our current climate. How a deadly plot against George Washington became a historical footnote 2019-01-04T05:00:00Z

It is a stark yet restrained comment on male domination and a cryptic presaging of the haunting enclosures of Louise Bourgeois. Review: Drips, Dropped: Pollock and His Impact 2015-12-31T05:00:00Z

Reed Krakoff knows what he likes: streamlined silhouettes and modernist clothes that reflect the stark architecture of a contemporary art gallery. Special Report: A Sunshine State of Mind 2010-09-16T15:40:00Z

This enraged man — the son of Aaron the Moor from “Titus Andronicus” — is stark naked and covered in blood. Is Jeremy O. Harris’s Play for ‘Gossip Girl’ Real? Now It Is. 2021-08-19T04:00:00Z

Perhaps some of the starkest evidence of that emerges when celebrities die. How breaking news is breaking us: The rush to report Philip Seymour Hoffman’s death 2014-02-04T00:00:00Z

On the “stark beauty” front, Josh Martin of Collective 605 from Vancouver, B.C., delivered some extraordinary goods with his solo piece, “Leftovers.” NW New Works: dental hygiene, stunning solo work, and more 2013-06-10T18:40:34Z

The scene at the office — and later, at the sprawling house where the boys live — was a stark contrast to Nelk’s public image. What Won’t the Nelk Boys Do? 2021-06-29T04:00:00Z

Visually the series reflects its taste for violence: Sharp, jagged lines are combined with stark shading and a grim palette of blacks, slate grays and reds. From ‘Proud Family’ to ‘The Boondocks’: 11 Black Animated Series 2020-08-17T04:00:00Z

The building was designed by a student of Frank Gehry’s and has soaring ceilings, stark white walls and light wood floors and glass walls opening to patios. In the studio with John Baldessari: At 85, the man who shunned 'boring art' has a new show 2017-05-20T04:00:00Z

In stark contrast to structuralism and its many offshoots, all of which are largely concerned with how literature either supports or subverts institutional power, creative criticism is all about the inner journey. ‘B & Me: A True Story of Literary Arousal,’ by J.C. Hallman 2015-04-23T04:00:00Z

Perhaps the divide was never so stark in the first place. The Unfinished Work of Alan Lomax’s Global Jukebox 2017-07-11T04:00:00Z

Something is indeed rotten in the state of Denmark, but the state’s business is secondary to the disintegrating human drama exposing stark truths of our mortal condition. Who is Hamlet? Three actors make their case 2017-08-19T04:00:00Z

The stark monochrome image that Sumner gave Saville was in line with album art that was moving him at the time. How Joy Division’s ‘Unknown Pleasures’ image went from underground album cover to a piece of cultural ubiquity 2019-06-14T04:00:00Z

Instead, this film stresses a stark truth: Happiness is never assured, no matter who you are, or who you’re becoming. ‘Family in Transition’ Review: A Parent Prepares for Change 2018-11-22T05:00:00Z

But the more they told you exactly what you wanted to hear, the starker the comparison with me. A letter to … my transgender husband: why did it have to be all about you? 2017-04-22T04:00:00Z

Music from a variety of sources and spoken documentary testimony supplemented the stark groupings and bursts of constricted action danced in either semi-darkness or searchlight glare. The struggle, the hopeless fury and the joy of life, all captured by Alvin Ailey Dance 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z

But the difference between feverish perception and stark reality — a wounding distinction Ellis learns — is essential to Nichols’ movies. ‘Mud’: Roiling in a river of obsession 2013-04-25T00:52:12Z

These sunny pictures hang across from five stark prints by Richard Serra, which reinterpret the spiraling forms of his vast minimalist sculptures. In the galleries: 3 artists explore 3-D 2015-08-19T04:00:00Z

But the heart attack put his advanced years into stark relief, and it’s become an issue for his campaign. Can we talk about the senior citizens running for president and how they try to look younger? 2019-11-06T05:00:00Z

Drive 2.5 hours east from Los Angeles and you'll reach Joshua Tree, which has stark and beautiful landscapes that look like something from another planet. A sweet and trippy reading in Joshua Tree 2015-02-02T05:00:00Z

However, his stark framing grants the scene a mythic, muscular force, illuminating the peculiar and self-sacrificing dedication required to make any tradition last. A Festival Full of Exploding Sledgehammers 2016-12-05T05:00:00Z

This stark, vivid novel was recorded on tape and then translated by Bowles. Read Your Way Through Tangier 2022-11-23T05:00:00Z

The stage is as plain as a modernist penthouse, with alternating stark white and orange lights. The Weeknd – review 2012-11-26T17:12:09Z

But hear also how she shrinks her sound to a stark mournfulness in “Adieu, notre petite table,” pained yet chilly as she prepares to leave des Grieux for another man’s luxury. Review: In ‘Manon,’ a Soprano Charms Her Way to the Top 2019-09-25T04:00:00Z

But as soon as they convened in a stark conference room here, right near where “Gilligan’s Island” was filmed, they immediately bonded over their shared situations. How to Write TV in the Age of Trump: Showrunners Reveal All 2017-04-12T04:00:00Z

Meanwhile the photograph accompanying the New Yorker article is starker. “My Brother’s Bomber”: The compelling personal crusade to crack the terror plot behind the 1988 Lockerbie explosion 2015-09-27T04:00:00Z

Alfred Hitchcock’s “Psycho” is a tight, chilling little piece of terror filmed in stark black and white and scored with violins that shriek as if they’re being plucked by knives. ‘Hitchcock’ is surprisingly sunny 2012-11-30T03:28:09Z

Shot with stark, nonjudgmental calm, the video has a patient affection that recalls nothing so much as “Planet Earth.” How the Blaze’s Emotional Dance Music Brings Listeners to Tears 2018-08-16T04:00:00Z

Some called it modern and glamorous, others thought it was stark and ugly. Does the Watergate Hotel need a younger, sexier scandal? 2016-06-22T04:00:00Z

The message was stark and complex at the same, just like Tune-Yards’ music. Artsy mimimalism of Tune-Yards is maximum fun live

But they are also stark reminders of a sensitive past and, as such, have been shrouded in secrecy. A Paris Museum Has 18,000 Skulls. It’s Reluctant to Say Whose. 2022-11-28T05:00:00Z

Advertisement Advertisement “Newark” is starker and bolder, even bleak: The wonder is that this, one of Ms. Brown’s toughest constructions, holds its audience riveted from first to last. Review: From Trisha Brown, Three Last Dances (Maybe) in Brooklyn 2016-01-29T05:00:00Z

Spattered among the crowd, however, were stark reminders of where I truly was: the stripe-shirted inmates. I love a rapist’s artwork: A brutal crime, a delicate work 2015-01-01T05:00:00Z

Ingenue, for instance, is coded orange; it's relatively stark, with Yorke at the piano. Atoms for Peace – review 2013-07-27T23:05:19Z

That opera is older than the rest of the works Ms. Grimaud played, but in her delicate performance, simultaneously stark and melodic, the piece fit in perfectly with the rest of the program. Music Review: Back at the Keyboard After a Difficult Interlude 2011-02-01T21:43:30Z

The tidy film impresses a stark fact: This dance is just beginning. 3 Sobering Documentaries on Netflix, Fandor and Field of Vision 2018-07-05T04:00:00Z

Monday’s premiere begins with the stark announcement: “The F.B.I. estimates there are one hundred thousand foreign spies working within the United States today.” Review: In 2 New Shows, F.B.I. Nerds Tangle With C.I.A. Babes 2019-02-24T05:00:00Z

But of all the streaming pleasures of the unstructured holiday time, what ended up standing out as the starkest contrast with "Skywalker" wasn't a sci-fi or fantasy show at all. Forget "The Rise of Skywalker" — the only "Star Wars" sequel you need is this episode of "Community" 2019-12-26T05:00:00Z

Her neck bruise and the concomitant calluses on her left hand are fading, and her psychological scars are coming into starker relief. A Violinist Rethinks Her Devotion to Music, With Emotion and Erudition 2022-03-28T04:00:00Z

Her stark and androgynous style has been aped by imitators and cited as an inspiration by countless designers. 19 Things About Betty Catroux 2020-03-02T05:00:00Z

Hysterical Literature, an art project by Clayton Cubitt, is a collection of stark black-and-white videos, each featuring a woman sitting at a table reading aloud from a book of her choosing. The 7 smartest, classiest porn sites 2015-04-12T04:00:00Z

The two photographers are known for stark and candid photographs of street-life in the 1960s. Tokyo to NYC street-life shines in Tate photo show 2012-10-09T10:54:46Z

Arriving by car, you sweep around a stark gray wall and thickets of green bamboo, and the rampant chaos that is modern Shanghai instantly vanishes. Shanghai's PuLi Hotel: The Bund's Newest Gem 2010-06-17T09:25:00Z

But the recent pattern is stark when it comes to race. For Oscars Telecast, Few Black Nominees Mean Fewer Black Viewers 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z

Asked if the stark lighting in some of the interviews — in particular with Cobain's imposingly stoic father, Don — represents a manipulation of the viewer, Morgen scoffed. How 'Montage of Heck' takes viewers inside Kurt Cobain's troubled mind 2015-05-01T04:00:00Z

One of the starkest contrasts on this album is how that holds up against El-P’s natural fatalism. Albums From Jerry Lee Lewis and Daniel Lanois 2014-10-27T04:00:00Z

What emerged was the unrestrained daring of Grainger's ear, and the profound musical respect for the material, attending to the wandering ambiguities and stark realities of the originals. Prom 25: Northern Sinfonia/Kathryn Tickell Band/BBC Singers ? review 2011-08-03T13:25:42Z

Produced for ACT UP, the poster speaks to the urgency of activism in the starkest terms. Epidemics: A Force for Life-Changing Innovation 2021-12-21T05:00:00Z

The artist responsible is 21-year-old Angel Haze, who raps so deftly, ferociously and with such menace over its stark and clattering handclap beat that "flow" seems too mellow a word for her delivery. One to Watch: Angel Haze 2012-08-25T23:08:42Z

In stark contrast, late medieval compendiums of saints’ lives, notably Jacobus de Voragine’s “The Golden Legend,” present entire church calendars of resolutely chaste, determinedly self-sacrificing female martyrs. Review | ‘The True History of the First Mrs. Meredith’ toppled the standardized Great Man tradition of biography 2020-07-22T04:00:00Z

Although a few songs had a rockabilly twang, most were slow, pensive and sparse — just two backup musicians sharing keyboard, guitar and drum — with her voice poised between hovering guitar lines and stark simple beats. ArtsBeat: The Full-Album Set Is a Plus for Fans and Bands 2011-03-18T18:56:55Z

I just watched, with stark admiration for the courage involved. Do you like my book idea? 2013-02-21T01:00:00Z

Bush's design and the lighting by Andrew D. Smith instill a mysterious and hallucinatory air one moment, a harsh and stark tone a beat later. New play 'Sextet' explores link between misery and art 2010-10-21T17:11:00Z

Some will still find it so, though as the mechanics of American economic privilege grow starker, her attempt to confuse roles usually dictated by ethnicity, class and gender looks more and more useful. Review: Photography’s Shifting Identity in an Insta-World 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z

In stark contrast, the UK's two biggest heavy metal bands experienced the spittle-spraying wrath of their respective fanbases after replacing revered vocalists. When one frontman is as good as any other 2013-05-23T13:14:08Z

Apart from some aptly stark, whispery tones at the opening of the Largo, the “Ghost’s” customarily spectral slow movement emerged here with an uncommon degree of heart-on-the-sleeve emotional frankness. A trio brings big emotion to the chamber repertory 2016-07-11T04:00:00Z

The score, beautifully performed by the Balthasar-Neumann Ensemble and Chorus, the minimal lines and stark colors of Rolf Borzik’s set, and the architectural groupings of the ensemble make “Orpheus” the purest of theatrical pleasures. A Pina Bausch Revival at Tanztheater Wuppertal 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z

And then the stark contrast of doing Zoom meeting after Zoom meeting and doing audio work from your home.” Keegan-Michael Key Reaches into the Past With ‘Midnight Run’ and ‘Electric Ladyland’ 2020-12-15T05:00:00Z

“He should be Australian of the year, what he has to do, what he has to view, would send most of us absolutely stark raving mad,” she said. Australian police sting brings down paedophile forum on dark web 2017-10-07T04:00:00Z

Ever wonder why East Germans had a proclivity for hanging out in public stark naked? 36 Hours in Berlin 2019-10-31T04:00:00Z

With Takafumi's wife comatose in a hospital, the film's stark juxtaposition of domestic melodrama and gonzo exploitation is very much reminiscent of "Audition." So the S&M-themed 'R100' is meant to be funny? 2015-01-23T05:00:00Z

And its total lack of controversy might not have been notable were it not in such stark contrast to what happened back in 2004. Nipples invade the Super Bowl! 2014-02-03T15:52:00Z

Even when there’s a stark disruption — like the compressed, hard-wired fusion of “Channels of Energy” — it seems to burst out of the preceding idea. Review: Antonio Sánchez With 2 Albums, ‘The Meridian Suite’ and ‘Three Times Three’ 2015-06-08T04:00:00Z

And on “Horizons,” as played by the Lithuanian National Symphony Orchestra, the handoffs between strutting flutes and stark strings also serve notice regarding this composer’s winning unpredictability. 5 Things to Do This Weekend 2021-02-11T05:00:00Z

But mostly he stayed in New York, where he was staggered by the material abundance, in stark contrast to the deprivations of postwar France. Albert Camus, Stranger in a Strange Land: New York 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z

In 1998, the same suite feels milder and more summery, the overarching condition one of restorative shade rather than stark shadow. Yo-Yo Ma Wants Bach to Save the World 2018-09-28T04:00:00Z

Running Jan. 27 to 29, it includes a stark set, wind machines, a little nudity and abundant adolescent angst. Spare Times: For Children, for Jan. 13-19 2012-01-12T22:22:26Z

Surtsey, in photographs, is stark and beautiful: hard lava on the surface of the sea. Volcanic splash 2010-07-31T23:06:00Z

A very old prison work song, “Water Boy” is stark, long-suffering and proud: “There ain’t no hammer that’s on this mountain/That ring like mine.” Work, Love, Dignity and Play: 10 Key Harry Belafonte Songs 2023-04-26T04:00:00Z

His approach is stark yet unforced, often graceful and adventurous to the end — an exit by a natural visionary. ‘Night Across the Street’: a surreal, rewarding farewell 2013-04-25T20:44:45Z

Polls illustrate the stark choice imposed by Trump’s refusal to concede. Does Electoral College end election for conservative media? 2020-12-15T05:00:00Z

A stark seriousness of mood came through, but not enough of Mr. Mincek’s florid instrumental imagination — which meant that the Alarm Will Sound players were too often sidelined. At This New-Music Festival, You Can Count on Variety 2018-08-17T04:00:00Z

His poems take up the body in desire and violence, and they do so by thrusting the reader into a stark visceral encounter with their material. Political Poetry Is Hot Again. The Poet Laureate Explores Why, and How. 2018-12-10T05:00:00Z

You can scarcely have a starker example of art that lures the eye, only to punish the mind with terrible knowledge. Mat Collishaw: still sensational 2013-04-26T15:30:00Z

What we said: A stark, mysterious and terrifying story of spiritual catastrophe: a drama with the ostensible form of a procedural crime thriller. Best films of 2018 so far 2018-06-19T04:00:00Z

“My goal isn’t to pile on the stark cautionary fare. Nor am I aiming to crack some ‘talent code,’” she writes in the prologue for “Off the Charts,” to our great relief. Gifted and Talented and Complicated 2018-01-17T05:00:00Z

The class contrasts are wide and growing starker. When you can’t afford your kids 2012-07-16T13:30:00Z

In the cement-floored malt barn, a single beam of light streaming through a small window gave the large, stark room the luminosity of a Vermeer painting. The Whisky Chronicles 2018-04-23T04:00:00Z

Its setting may be stark, its ending may not be sunshine-and-apple-pie, but it is nonetheless an exceptional book. New life for the underground hit ‘The Never-Open Desert Diner’ 2016-05-24T04:00:00Z

One of the most effective examples of this approach illuminates how Oppenheimer and other Jewish project scientists, some of whom were refugees from Nazi Germany, saw their work in stark, existential terms. ‘Oppenheimer’ Review: A Man for Our Time 2023-07-19T04:00:00Z

The realizations here are stark — there’s a difference between superficial and deep love, difficulty is in the eye of the beholder, no one will love you more truly than you love yourself. The Playlist: Nicki Minaj Strikes Back, and Fleet Foxes Return With a Folky Epic 2017-03-10T05:00:00Z

In stark contrast to the slasher movies it spawned, and even to its own sequels, barely a drop of blood is shed in “Halloween.” ‘Halloween’ and the Problem With Its Sequels 2021-10-25T04:00:00Z

The stark differences of opinion among museum leaders were evident last week when the association convened two unusual, mandatory sessions to gather feedback from members about the rules for such sales. Selling Art to Pay the Bills Divides the Nation’s Museum Directors 2021-03-19T04:00:00Z

Contrasted against the stark rectangularity of so much of the city and its buildings, the Mead Center was regarded as an important contribution to urban design. Bing Thom, Canadian architect who redesigned Arena Stage, dies at 75 2016-10-05T04:00:00Z

It's both creepily obsessive-compulsive and a stark vision of alienated labour. Berlin Biennale 2010: where art imitates real life 2010-06-15T11:57:00Z

Liberia's president, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, announced the emergency measures after a closed-door meeting earlier this week in which medical officials painted a stark picture, according to an aide present at the meeting. Ebola outbreak sparks states of emergency in Liberia and Sierra Leone 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z

It was stark and, thanks to the drought, increasingly difficult to tell where the California countryside ended and where the desert proper began. What “Avengers” got right about Black Widow: Infertility is devastating — even for superheroes 2015-05-07T04:00:00Z

And, revealingly, the three most depressing aspects of our home-grown programming all stand in stark contrast to the situation in the US – under-representation of ethnic minorities, short runs, and uniformity. State of the nation 2011-03-29T11:25:31Z

We walked across a stark, beautiful landscape of dark-gray lava flows that contrasted sharply with tufts of straw-colored grass. Journey to an Ethiopian volcano located in one of the hottest places on Earth 2017-03-30T04:00:00Z

Their nearby residence, meanwhile, a reproduction of an 18th-century cape house, is decorated sparingly with country antiques and folk art with the stark restraint that marks his paintings. New Life for the Wyeth Legacy Five Miles Out to Sea 2022-02-02T05:00:00Z

Conversing in a stark basement conference room at the New York City office of her American label, 4AD, Ms. Harding said, “I don’t really like to talk about what my songs are about.” Aldous Harding’s Songs Won’t Be Pinned Down. Nor Will Her Voice. 2017-05-17T04:00:00Z

This fear stands in contrast to Ellmann’s mountain lion, with her single-minded focus, her stark and queenly solitude. Can One Sentence Capture All of Life? 2019-09-06T04:00:00Z

It's a stark new reality for so many powerful corporations that have relied on the desperation of entry-level minimum wage workers for so long. We aren’t only facing a supply chain issue — for grocery workers, it’s also a labor rights issue 2022-02-10T05:00:00Z

But they are still faced with a stark choice one way or the other. BBC 'regret' over abortion poll 2012-09-12T11:02:17Z

This is a stark contrast from early January, when the company saw record booking numbers from travelers in these countries, said Intrepid’s North American director, Leigh Barnes. After Travel Ban, Interest in Trips to U.S. Declines 2017-02-20T05:00:00Z

Her book is a stark warning to towns and countries facing similar trends, and a lesson in how much economists can miss. When a Factory Relocates to Mexico, What Happens to Its American Workers? 2021-10-12T04:00:00Z

This too is in stark contrast to the story in Acts of the Apostles where Jesus appears to a multitude who see him simultaneously. And Man Created God by Selina O'Grady - review 2012-12-20T07:00:02Z

They are more like the record of a shipwreck survivor trying to come to terms with the strain of isolation and the stark horizon of her island. Nobel Prize in literature awarded to Louise Glück 2020-10-08T04:00:00Z

The shock of recognition is tempered somewhat by the contrasts between the stark poverty many families faced in the 1930s and what struggling middle-class Americans are coping with today. Intiman Theatre dusts off Depression-era 'Paradise Lost' ? which speaks powerfully to us now 2010-03-17T23:20:00Z

I Still Do is stark, sad and mesmeric. I Am Kloot – review 2012-11-11T16:21:50Z

At least now we can confront the naked truth about women's submissiveness in all its stark, raw, bald reality. Pubic hair removal: The naked truth 2011-02-11T07:00:02Z

What is unusual is the stark portrayal of the extreme hardships faced by young women trying to survive, raise families and cope with extreme weather and disease. At Cannes, Tommy Lee Jones turns the western on its head 2014-05-18T04:00:00Z

He’d like to have it both ways, confronting his viewers with stark truths and then demurring all who-me once it’s time to reckon with their implications. Why so stupid: how Joker is too juvenile to be provocative 2019-10-02T04:00:00Z

On “Cruel Liars,” Shook dials back the twang and down-home shuffle of Disarmers records while retaining their rough hew and stark, straightforward lyricism. 75 Pop and Jazz Albums, Shows and Festivals Coming This Fall 2022-09-08T04:00:00Z

Sundance may be sticking close to its brand when it comes to features, but the documentary competition reveals a stark shift. Carpetbagger: Eclectic as Ever, Sundance Unveils Competition Lineup 2011-11-30T21:00:03Z

She cuts a stark contrast to the pale women and men with European features who dominate Mexican television and film, despite representing only a sliver of Mexico’s overwhelmingly mestizo and indigenous population. Star of Mexican film 'Roma' prompts raw discussion of race, class 2019-02-23T05:00:00Z

Considered the foremost artist of Appalachian music, the 84-year-old Stanley will draw on stark ballads and the church music of his youth. New Ralph Stanley album taps hymns, spirituals 2011-02-10T12:40:24Z

David Borovsky’s set is in the stark, minimalist mode of much classic contemporary theater, a platform of light wood surrounded by dark wooden walls. | 'Uncle Vanya': Maly Drama Performs at the Brooklyn Academy of Music 2010-04-08T22:50:00Z

This is a world without love or loyalty and reflects a stark reality. Freida Pinto: ‘I wouldn’t work with Woody Allen again’ 2019-01-27T05:00:00Z

We all face crossroads in life, but few present choices as stark as those confronting Chris Mburu as he grew up in rural Kenya. How one act of generosity led to a Kenyan miracle ? and a Sundance film 2011-04-13T09:00:01Z

One movement had her moaning in sorrow, and then hollering and shrieking in anguish — a stark evocation of struggle. Abbey Lincoln, Jazz Singer and Writer, Dies at 80 2010-08-14T19:25:00Z

The sections are separated by fading light or stark blackouts, showing us brief tableaus in which the dancers seem to explore their own relationship with ballet. Dance Review: Collaborations Bring Cascades of Motion and Emotion 2011-07-07T22:06:58Z

It was a stark contrast to the boarded up swaths of Detroit, just minutes away, still suffering the effects of the 1967 unrest. A White Director, the Police and Race in ‘Detroit’ 2017-08-02T04:00:00Z

His stage pictures did not become stark, exactly – Lazaridis was never minimalist – but everything would now have an ideological as well as atmospheric purpose. Stefanos Lazaridis obituary 2010-05-16T17:48:00Z

Set in a fishing town on the stark Scottish coast, Paul Wright's debut feature stars 21-year-old MacKay as sole survivor of a boat accident that killed five others, including his elder brother. Seen and heard at the Cannes Film Festival 2013-05-19T14:15:12Z

The stark yet detailed ink drawings in “Reaching From Soil” depict trees as tangled black shapes, silhouetted against white skies. In the galleries: Deconstruction that’s carefully constructed 2016-10-14T04:00:00Z

It throws into stark relief the architectural changes that are transforming the skyline of Mecca by juxtaposing a photograph of the Holy city taken in 1890 with one snapped earlier this year. Arab art on view at Venice Biennale 2013-08-15T07:00:06Z

To Tyler’s credit, Wolf is a stark contrast to some of the endeavors he’s undertaken since 2011′s Goblin. Tyler, the Creator is His Own Worst Enemy on Wolf 2013-04-03T11:00:02Z

These days she counts among her go-to pieces a leather “track bag,” an understated tote with a stark white stripe down the side, and a leather-piped black cashmere coat. Reed Krakoff Will Show His First Collection Since Leaving Coach 2014-02-05T23:49:10Z

They rendered each individual note with stark, upstanding force, holding firm amid the swarm. January in Live Jazz: 5 Standout Shows 2018-01-31T05:00:00Z

“Trespassing,” the title piece in the Werner Drewes retrospective at the Washington Printmakers Gallery, arrays stark shapes in black, gray and yellow. In the galleries: Tension and beauty collide in Michael Sastre’s paintings 2016-11-18T05:00:00Z

“Beyond 9/11” delivers the same immediacy with the opposite approach: witnesses recount their experiences, without a visible interviewer, against a stark white background that intensifies the testimony. The TV Watch: 9/11?s Pain Through the Prism of TV 2011-09-08T14:12:24Z

Most of them are stark naked, but for their traditional pareo skirts. Another view on Gauguin: Maker of Myth 2010-12-20T22:45:00Z

Most of all, the movie offers a stark illustration of why those of us who have lived through stories like these feel compelled to tell them, again and again. Fathers and Sons, Reliving on Film the Pain of Addiction 2018-10-12T04:00:00Z

‘The political stakes are high, the dramatic story unspools tidbit by tidbit and the stark us-versus-them dynamics provide plenty of fodder for emotionally charged social media brawls.” Perspective | Trump, the TV president, finally meets a media story he can’t control 2019-09-27T04:00:00Z

The night was also full of eye-catching performances of newer songs, in stark colors or elaborately colorful scenes. Grammy Winners 2015: Beck, Sam Smith, Pharrell and Beyoncé Thrive 2015-02-09T05:00:00Z

The ignorant buffoon Donald Trump is their direct and stark opposite. Which Americans are disposable? The lessons “Space Traders,” James Baldwin and the rise of Donald Trump 2016-12-29T05:00:00Z

This is on display in cliffs hundreds of feet tall, a stark reminder of how far we have to go — and how quickly we could get there with one misstep. A father-son backpacking trip in the Grand Canyon is an introduction to adventure 2021-04-08T04:00:00Z

The afternoon opened with stark simplicity: Steve Reich’s 1973 “Music for Pieces of Wood.” Who knew a cathedral of sound could be build from Sandbox Percussion? 2016-03-21T04:00:00Z

It was a stark contrast to the men back in their home countries, whom they tended to describe as emotionally stunted and hypermasculine. Why some women are traveling to South Korea to find boyfriends 2022-04-04T04:00:00Z

Traveling in developing nations, where infrastructures, security and economies are in stark contrast to those in the United States, can be some of the richest experiences for children. Poor locales, rich experiences: Traveling with kids to developing countries is worth the risk 2017-07-27T04:00:00Z

It was a stark reminder of how different life is in the West and the power and fickleness of Mother Nature. Closer by the dozen in Bigfork, Montana 2015-12-09T05:00:00Z

Mr. Price owns several photographs by Weegee, the photojournalist who captured stark scenes of urban life and crime in Manhattan in the 1930s and ’40s. Richard Price Finds His Pseudonym for ‘The Whites’ Annoying 2015-02-10T05:00:00Z

A stark, charcoal-hued staircase brings together the first and second floors. Architect Smiljan Radic's striking redo of Chile's pre-Columbian museum 2015-03-13T04:00:00Z

This stark and mysterious basin harbors hidden tarns and disappearing waterways and is surrounded by spiraling peaks. Best of the best: Author's 10 picks from new Washington ‘Classic Hikes’ guide 2016-07-13T04:00:00Z

And the record’s jaw-dropping sales receipts bring that story into stark relief. The Beatles' "Abbey Road" at 50, remixed: A definitive deep dive into the greatest rock band at work 2019-09-25T04:00:00Z

The veteran soloist, Emanuel Ax, seemed to be searching for a middle ground between his pearly geniality and Payare’s starker phrasing, and the results sounded unsettled. Review: A Shostakovich Symphony Finally Reaches the Philharmonic 2022-12-02T05:00:00Z

In a perfect world, a beautiful woman should be able to walk down a crowded city street stark naked and have no threat to her safety whatsoever. Pinups in the Post-Weinstein World 2017-11-27T05:00:00Z

Your sisters give fairly stark accounts of their own experiences. ArtsBeat: Tribeca Q&A: Jack Osbourne on 'God Bless Ozzy Osbourne' 2011-04-26T13:34:00Z

Whereas, in his finest work, Williams is aware of the comic absurdity of almost everyone, here he confronts us with a stark choice. A Cavalier for Milady ? review 2011-04-03T20:29:00Z

As the East Village transitions to the Lower East Side, class disparities among strangers on the street become starker. Religion ruined my childhood 2014-02-16T00:00:00Z

Gradually, the arrangements got starker, the beats faster and the subwoofers more assertive as the music shifted toward the style of the man who was up next. DJs of Fort Knox Five play vigorous improvised set at U Street Music Hall 2015-07-05T04:00:00Z

But “First Winter” knows what it is: a stark metaphysical parable that contemplates the superficiality and fragility of modern civilization. Movie Review: ‘First Winter,’ a Benjamin Dickinson Film 2012-11-16T00:09:10Z

In stark contrast to this cowardice, King stated to his staff, “I’d rather be dead than afraid.” “His dream was for all poor and working people to live lives of decency and dignity” 2015-01-19T05:00:00Z

Nor is it the only way to make women safe in an industry with such stark gendered power imbalances, especially as some allegations of abusive behavior take place off set. Sexual misconduct in film and TV: how intimacy coordination can help to address the historic issue 2021-05-22T04:00:00Z

Once this rising trio's star fully ascends with the release of their debut album, If You Leave, on 4AD in March, Tonra's stark explorations of toxic relationships will transfix many. Daughter – review 2013-01-23T13:43:11Z

The Seventh Seal by Susan Greenfield ‘It’s about the psychology of people – the hope you are going to be better’ Ingmar Bergman’s film is so stark and uncompromising, unlike most movies nowadays. Psycho thrillers: five movies that teach us how the mind works 2016-04-24T04:00:00Z

The stark white turtlenecks, recalling the ski look in Raf Simons’s Jil Sander show, added a cool, sporty element. | Fashion Review: A Good Time to Be a Realist 2011-03-07T07:51:48Z

One of four German editions is stark and striking, suggesting cool minimal electronics. One Album Released by 44 Labels. Is This the New Global Jukebox? 2021-02-18T05:00:00Z

In Rowe’s gorgeous and harrowing debut novel, full of stark emotional moments, an emotionally scarred Vietnam veteran disappears from a small Australian town. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2017-10-12T04:00:00Z

This summer’s chum run was the lowest on record, with only 153,000 fish counted in the river at the Pilot Station sonar — a stark contrast to the 1.7 million chum running in year’s past. Record Salmon in One Place. Barely Any in Another. Alarm All Around. 2021-08-12T04:00:00Z

His new songs relied on brutally stark synthesizer riffs and drumbeats, closer to industrial dance music than to current hip-hop, and they were delivered on Sunday through a sound system with bone-rattling bass. Critic’s Notebook: Axl Rose and Kanye West, Heroes of Governors Ball 2013-06-10T21:53:47Z

It doesn’t really tell you about Putin any more than another new topical show, David Greig’s stark “The Events” at Anacostia’s Theater Alliance, tells you about its subject: mass shootings. Review | Putin for laughs and a random shooting for tears in two topical shows 2018-09-18T04:00:00Z

But the mood is undercut by its juxtaposition with Nassar’s stark prison hallway march, with its sonic flourishes forming a macabre musical interlude: cuffs jangle, doors creak and thud. ‘Designated Survivor’ Season 1, Episode 6: Walk, Talk ... Duck! 2016-11-09T05:00:00Z

Screen Daily said: “This assured feature debut effectively hints at a churning savagery beneath the surface, which is every bit as unforgiving as the stark landscape”. First-time director brings 2018-05-16T04:00:00Z

The physical presence of the tapes exists in stark contrast to the lack of physical presence of Hannah. The human cost of a forced upgrade: What we lose when technology platforms fade away 2017-04-16T04:00:00Z

It is pretty stark to the point where the people who say they love you, don't love you anymore. Star Trek legend Michael Dorn: Forget "Picard," I've been trying to pitch a "Worf" TV show 2021-03-07T05:00:00Z

This is a stark difference from my previous life as an avid runner. Motherlode Blog: Teaching a Daughter She Can Do Anything, When A.L.S. Means Her Mother Can’t 2013-12-15T13:56:00Z

Soares rose to stardom in spite of a difficult upbringing and being a Black woman in a country where slavery has left a stark legacy of inequality. Brazil bids farewell to its samba queen, Elza Soares 2022-01-21T05:00:00Z

Bill Nash portrays the Earl of Kent, Lear’s loyal vassal, who is also in disguise as he follows his master’s downfall, with a similarly stark gravity. The Shakespeare Globe’s Informal ‘King Lear’ at the Skirball 2014-10-01T04:00:00Z

It’s the DC storyline that shares most of its DNA with the first season, taking place in similarly stark surroundings, from cold, ultra-modern hotels to clinical conference rooms. The Girlfriend Experience: a welcome return for TV's most audacious drama 2017-11-03T04:00:00Z

The class divisions between the parties were starker then. This House recalls the years when Britain really was a nation in crisis 2012-10-13T23:06:33Z

The stark black-and-white cinematography deepens the film's shadows and unease, but it also throws these grizzled faces into relief, sharpening their cheekbones and revealing the death’s head under each man’s grimace. ‘The Lighthouse’ Review: Dark Nights, Troubled Souls, Hairy Men 2019-10-16T04:00:00Z

There’s the shocking opening shot of six black boys, shackled and shepherded through stark juvie halls, which immediately places the film in the real-world context of the disproportionate incarceration rate of African American youth. Creed adds to short list of boxing films starring a black hero 2015-11-24T05:00:00Z

The opening strains of the AC/DC song “Hell’s Bells” rip through the room as the servers place the bowls before the 10 diners seated around the stark white table. Bites: Restaurant Report: Ultraviolet in Shanghai 2012-10-03T21:27:47Z

The look is stark, and the colors are drained, the whole washed in an eerie, echoing sound design of plinking pianos and ghostly choirs. In ‘Asmodexia,’ Evil Infects Souls Like a Plague 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z

"If you studied or pay attention to crime as long as I have, things seem a lot starker and more simple," Weinman said. Sally Horner was “The Real Lolita”: The 1948 crime that inspired Nabokov 2018-09-11T04:00:00Z

Although the film-makers may have hoped to address the abolition of Iran's family protection law following the revolution, their stark juxtapositions between the protagonists' religions make the film a crude vehicle for Christian triumphalism. Ben Affleck's Argo takes Iran's revolutionary themes as its own 2012-11-07T15:09:52Z

With their stark focus and elegant composition, the black-and-white images by 20th-century photographer Edward Weston are a striking example of visual poetry. Iconic Edward Weston Images Hit the Auction Block 2014-09-09T04:00:00Z

Their sense of dreaminess and the open road is in stark contrast to the era of hard, self-centred glamour that prevailed, particularly in fashion and portrait photography, in the last decade. Ryan McGinley: nude in New York 2010-04-13T20:30:00Z

His modal vocabulary, flecked with pentatonic and other outré accents, could be profoundly ambiguous — sometimes stark, as in “Job,” a ballet in all but name, and sometimes discomforting, as in the otherworldly Sixth. Vaughan Williams: Complicated, but Not Quite Conservative 2022-10-12T04:00:00Z

How unexpected: The contrast between the two islands is stark. One final chance to sail to St. Helena, a remote island in the Atlantic 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z

Whether it’s a drum kit or a vibraphone or a set of bells, the percussionist Ches Smith attacks his instruments with a stark, space-clearing power. Pop, Rock and Jazz in NYC This Week 2017-12-21T05:00:00Z

Perhaps that accounted for the almost palpable air of disbelieving excitement before Kraftwerk appeared onstage, which made for a stark contrast with the reception Kraftwerk got when they first tried playing this music in Britain. Kraftwerk – review 2013-02-07T00:49:03Z

The immigrants took with them the rich culture that had embroidered their otherwise stark lives: bagpipe and fiddle music, step dance and song. Fiddling With the Past: The Secrets of Scottish Music 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z

The breathless urgency of the structure’s exterior stands in stark contrast to the soft mustard walls of the interior. Beyond the Book Club, An Artist’s To-Do List 2022-11-03T04:00:00Z

Peña talked on the stark realities of visiting prisons where the majority of the kids were brown. Singalongs and shenanigans with the authors at the young adult reading festival Yallwest 2016-05-03T04:00:00Z

The stark juxtaposition of This Town and That Town echoes Washington’s enduring heritage as the compromise capital between those states that held slaves and those that did not. Where I Live: Washington, D.C. 2017-01-12T05:00:00Z

The explorers, as they venture deeper into Area X, hiking toward its stark, mysterious lighthouses, begin to merge with it. The Weird Thoreau 2015-01-14T05:00:00Z

It is also as stark as a doctor’s examining room. Review: Sienna Miller Coaxes New Life From an Old ‘Cat’ 2017-07-25T04:00:00Z

Bare wood tables, bare floors and stark windows that overlook the shopping marvels below put me more in mind of a nicer-than-average coffee shop. Skip the food court: Chicago suburban restaurant roundup 2014-12-09T05:00:00Z

His stark, devilishly difficult vocabulary tethers the dancers to the floor, releasing them only to yank them down again. Daniel Léveillé’s ‘Solitudes Solo’ at Abrons Arts Center 2015-02-01T05:00:00Z

I think she imagined it in more natural settings and I suggested giving it a starker, more minimalist look. Director Mark Romanek defends Taylor Swift's 'Shake It Off' video 2014-08-21T04:00:00Z

“There’s nowhere that the stark difference between winners and losers is more clear,” he tells a colleague as he scans the empty lanes. “Hate is nature’s most perfect energy source”: Showtime’s “Billions” hits its stride in its return 2017-02-18T05:00:00Z

There are stark differences between the gilded lives of the wealthy and the turbulent lives of the poor. Jojo Moyes’s new novel, ‘The Horse Dancer,’ has a Dickensian spirit 2017-04-27T04:00:00Z

The floor is littered with lemons, and the lighting is stark. ‘Toxic Psalms,’ in the Prototype Festival, Explores Ethical Choices 2015-01-07T05:00:00Z

Once a draw to the European jetset, a split between the haves and struggling-to-haves is becoming more stark by the day, as this new series, which follows the fortunes of both tourists and expats, attests. TV listings and previews: plan your week's viewing - 8-12 October 2012-10-08T08:00:00Z

The show includes a series of black canvases, with stark geometric lines and only the suggestion of figures relegated to the corner. A Sun God? A Cyborg? No, It’s a George Condo Creation 2019-10-29T04:00:00Z

The natural world is wondrous, McIntosh suggests, but also stark, lonely and fragile, even threatening. Best Classical Music Tracks of 2022 2022-12-22T05:00:00Z

The new production that opened the Lyric Opera season Friday night captures much of this brooding quality, especially in its stark and sleek metallic sets designed by James Noone. Vocal toil and trouble beset Lyric's 'Macbeth' 2010-10-02T18:53:00Z

Although León’s language is different from decade to decade, her ear for slightly bent phrases in the early works can help prepare a listener for the way she later learned to make starker dissonances dance. 5 Classical Music Albums You Can Listen to Right Now 2022-07-28T04:00:00Z

But you can still catch the astonishing Mies Julie at Assembly Mound – a stark reminder that equality is impossible without justice, and that without justice personal relationships are irrevocably tainted. Edinburgh fringe: day 17 on the fringe 2012-08-23T16:05:54Z

Over the past 50 years or so, as part of a general vogue for presenting art as its creators envisioned, Rimsky’s glittering interventions fell from grace in favor of Mussorgsky’s starker orchestrations. Review: After a Met Opera Milestone, ‘Boris’ Brings Another 2021-09-29T04:00:00Z

It's a stark and harrowing reminder that restricting access to abortion does not make abortion go away. A "House" actress's chilling pro-choice ad 2011-02-16T20:14:00Z

Her essay described the office as a “hostile work environment,” but that was really a jumping-off point to a more prescriptive argument rooted in the stark numbers stacked against women in late night. She Speaks Truth to the Funny Men in Power 2018-03-07T05:00:00Z

The thick lines and stark angles of Taylor’s bold illustrations evoke protest posters depicting the struggle for justice. From Haiku to Spoken Word, Picture Books That Bring Poetry to Kids 2020-04-10T04:00:00Z

Here, forceful rhythms and stark imagery persist in stanza two. Poem of the week: Elegy by Sidney Keyes 2013-07-15T11:42:00Z

It was, he said, surprisingly moving because of its stark simplicity: no flowers, no music, “just pure words” of loss and homecoming. Museums Move to Return Human Remains to Indigenous Peoples 2013-05-24T16:08:12Z

Their romantic attachment stands in stark opposition to the pogroms, war and genocide — the real disgrace of the world — that the playwright and his people were contending with. 'Indecent' is a moving reminder of art's power to expose truths 2015-11-30T05:00:00Z

At its best, Levine's set offers stark and unapologetic dispatches from an exotic life – exotic, at least, to largely middle-class Edinburgh audiences. Fat Whore: Kristine Levine – Edinburgh festival review 2012-08-06T09:29:00Z

Be on the lookout for the Square Colosseum, a stark white minimalist nod to its 2,000-year-old counterpart. The Best Secret Streets Around the World 2015-12-29T05:00:00Z

Within this stark world of steel grays, blacks and whites, she exposes the inner workings of the theater as a raw sort of sensuality takes hold. Dance Review: A Choreographer?s 2 Sides, Cut From the Same Cloth 2011-06-10T21:58:27Z

Revelations unfold predictably, but the subplots cohere and the assured pacing offers a stark contrast with the often disjointed tempos of Mr. Perry’s mosaics. Movie Review: ‘Peeples,’ With Kerry Washington and David Alan Grier 2013-05-10T00:56:19Z

An avid baker, he was famous for never repeating, let alone following, recipes — a stark contrast to the girls’ mother, Mary McInnes, who lives in New Hampshire. She bakes cakes fit for a queen. Now commoners can afford her treats, too. 2016-01-11T05:00:00Z

In stark contrast, most small business owners already pay more than the minimum wage, and a large majority support raising it to $10.10 and indexing it for inflation. Hey, McDonald’s: Not every restaurant treats its employees like dirt 2014-01-31T13:30:00Z

The game’s stark, melancholy music is as much a storyteller as the occasional snippet of exposition. Video Games: Reviews: Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes, FarmVille 2: Country Escape and Monument Valley 2014-04-22T20:57:56Z

One stark picture of a body bag stretched between the two men carrying it is a vignette from Liberia, but it could depict anywhere that humanity has been broken by catastrophe. In the galleries: Anything but simplicity in these drawings 2015-07-02T04:00:00Z

Its conclusion was stark: one in five 21-year-olds are needed to enter the profession each year to meet demand. Women in engineering: the girl gap 2013-06-26T18:30:01Z

The footage shows the inferno of California’s wildfire season, and more than any image that follows, this opening presents a stark view of the apocalyptic effects of global climate change. ‘To the End’ Review: Seeing Red While Left on Read 2022-12-08T05:00:00Z

It is a stark vision — you might be reminded of Ivo van Hove’s scorched-earth approach to classic plays — that pares away almost everything but the music and the characters. Review: The Philharmonic Makes Wagner’s Gods Chillingly Human 2017-06-02T04:00:00Z

A stark contrast from both the commercialised rap of the US and the party-starting optimism of most Bollywood chart hits, Akhtar’s film comprises rap songs and battles composed entirely of gully rap. Indian audiences shun spectacle with Bollywood's first hip-hop film 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z

The club’s stark landscapes and portraits of lonesome cowboys are a source of pride for Ms. Davis, a Tucson native, who like her husband, Brett, is a flesh-and-blood ambassador for modern Western life. On an Arizona Road Trip, Miles of Family Firsts 2018-06-12T04:00:00Z

The dotted-note patterns of the sixth prelude sounded more joyous here than on Levit’s starker recording, and suggested an affinity with the more obviously lighthearted 11th prelude. Review: Igor Levit Takes on a Shostakovich Kaleidoscope 2022-10-19T04:00:00Z

The first book by Laveau-Harvie, 77, captures the stark terrain of her childhood in Canada, to which she returned to care for her aging parents. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-08-20T04:00:00Z

In a stark departure from traditional linear narrative, the movie’s scenes aren’t chronological. Natalie Portman: The key to Jackie Kennedy was that unforgettable voice 2016-12-09T05:00:00Z

Spur Camp, 2 May 43" provides a stark little companion to the painting, ending: "Not far away, up the line, Bren guns pummel hot air, men gasp and clutch, die casually, sweat and groan. Denis Healey: the artist within 2011-01-05T20:30:01Z

It is an 18,000-square-foot stark brick building, divided into nine chambers built to his specifications, and Turrell’s are so exacting it takes a huge amount of work to complete a single installation. In Argentina, Wine, Art and Altitude 2014-06-06T04:00:00Z

Her own biography reads like a piece of popular pulp: Born in 1878, heiress to the International Harvester fortune, tutored at home in Chicago in a stark, stone mansion, designed by H.H. Heiress Plotted 19 Grisly Crimes. Investigation Underway. 2018-01-10T05:00:00Z

This is a brutal, occasionally inelegant film, but it pulls no punches and shines a stark, pitiless light on its subject. Welcome to New York review – Abel Ferrara is unencumbered by good taste 2014-08-07T04:00:00Z

Rylance spoke further about his return to “Jerusalem,” the stark contrast between his stage and film roles and his performance in “The Phantom of the Open.” Mark Rylance on ‘Jerusalem’ and the Golf Comedy ‘Phantom of the Open’ 2022-06-03T04:00:00Z

Dark, stark, profound, Hough’s work illuminates the for-profit nature of the U.S. prison industrial complex with pictures showing naked and sometimes anonymized bodies bound in chains and processed like raw material by machines. 4 Art Gallery Shows to See Right Now 2021-10-13T04:00:00Z

But in six years between studio albums, she not only renamed herself with what she calls her “spirit name” but also set herself on a stark new artistic course. Anohni: Embracing a New Name, and Sound 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z

The image that stays with you longest in “Kleptocracy,” Kenneth Lin’s stark but emotionally colorless new play about the multifarious corruptions of Vladimir Putin’s Russia, is one of Putin himself, as a butcher. Is Vladimir Putin box-office poison? In a new play, he’s certainly toxic enough. 2019-01-28T05:00:00Z

The solitude has been a stark change for the songwriter, but his past collaborations are informing his present solo work. Ex-Semisonic frontman steps into solo spotlight 2010-07-24T02:26:00Z

This is fiction in touch with the starker parables, with Kafka and Beckett, with the austerity of bare rooms and declarative, uninflected sentences. Joshua Ferris Reviews Don DeLillo’s ‘Zero K’ 2016-05-02T04:00:00Z

With two weeks until the premiere, he had settled on “Quiet Music,” by the contemporary classical composer Nico Muhly, and was deciding what to pair it with, leaning toward a stark contrast. The Choreographer Kyle Abraham Mixes Things Up at City Ballet 2018-09-21T04:00:00Z

While you might think that black cabinets are harsh or stark, they're actually very easy to warm up to feel more cozy and sophisticated. How to make the most of your kitchen cabinets 2022-06-03T04:00:00Z

He dropped out of college to manage punk bands and became, he said, “a stark raving mad heroin addict.” One Man’s Mission to Keep Musicians’ Legacies Alive 2016-06-17T04:00:00Z

In the stark and celestial work, Mr. Gehry’s two-tiered set provides a towering stage for Ms. Childs’s kaleidoscopic configurations, executed by 11 dancers. 15 Summer Dance Festivals, Saratoga to Vail 2018-05-17T04:00:00Z

This is not a cheery book, but like those Vermont woods in winter, it shimmers with a stark loveliness. Review | ‘The Hare’ is a richly told tale of female resilience 2021-01-26T05:00:00Z

To them, the worst of racism was over, and Moody’s account served as a stark reminder of how bad things once were. “Coming of Age in Mississippi” still speaks to nation’s racial discord 2018-10-28T04:00:00Z

These poets’ directness suits their media, at their best disrupting never-ending streams of gossip, selfies and opinion-mongering with stark emotional clearings that aren’t entirely unlike the mental stillness and “othering” fostered by poetry’s traditional techniques. Why Rupi Kaur and Her Peers Are the Most Popular Poets in the World 2017-12-15T05:00:00Z

The author's clear eye and stark language provoke not just admiration for his skills but empathy for his characters. Richard Yates and Easter's rising despair 2010-04-01T13:00:00Z

When she returns to school afterward the difference is stark. "Priscilla" highlights how Elvis molded Priscilla into a mirror of himself 2023-11-10T05:00:00Z

Crane loved boxing, which he described as “two sublime machines of human muscle-play in the vivid light of a ‘ring’—stark darkness all around with yells form all sides and countless eyes gleaming.” America’s forgotten poet 2012-10-04T20:02:00Z

Nsingo’s honest movements and stripped-down approach are a stark contrast to the palazzo’s ornate frescoes and vaulted ceilings, where five of Liv's paintings will also be on display. Dancer Lindy Nsingo and Artist Lena Liv Collaborate at Venice’s Palazzo Flangini 2015-05-12T04:00:00Z

That sense that we’re eavesdropping at the beginning, middle or end of an encounter becomes ever more convincing as a result of the production’s stark, understated style. Review | 57 plays in one evening? Who’d go to such a thing? You should. 2017-10-03T04:00:00Z

Mr. Paxton’s uncompromising and unpretty toughness, his stark objectivity about showing basic qualities and facts of movement in new lights, were fully as momentous as — and more haunting than — anything Mr. Baryshnikov showed that evening. Review: At MoMA, Dances by Steve Paxton, an Original Too Rarely Seen 2018-12-10T05:00:00Z

On May 5, they were married in a gallery at the Clyfford Still Museum, a stark concrete building in downtown Denver. You Could Write a Country Song About Them. (He Probably Will.) 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z

After a series of drawn-out farewells over the last few weeks, it was a stark confrontation. Liverpool's Everyman theatre says goodbye ? for the moment 2011-07-05T16:30:56Z

Fallon's fast start is clear in television ratings and even more stark in social media metrics. Jimmy Fallon off to fast start on 'Tonight' 2014-03-24T13:05:07Z

For one instance, a stark room may need a textured window treatment to get some much-needed contrast. Curtains, blinds or both? Here’s how to pick window treatments 2022-08-02T04:00:00Z

The stark fugue thus aches more naturally than in other readings; pizzicatos, without added sweetness, ring with irony. 5 Classical Albums to Hear Right Now 2021-04-01T04:00:00Z

Fay Godwin's Remains Of Elmet, commissioned to accompany Ted Hughes's poems of the same name, view the brooding moorlands of the Calder Valley into stark monochrome tragedies. This week's new exhibitions 2010-07-30T23:06:00Z

Audiences and critics were impressed by the low-budget but effective visual effects, and  stark black-and-white camerawork. SXSW 2015: Films That Were the Talk of the Festival 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z

Bathed in this ethereal glow against a stark white wall is the Murakami — in its many pieces, a dazzling tumble of color and seemingly infinite detail. Filling L.A.'s new Broad museum is an art in itself 2015-07-06T04:00:00Z

The stark color contrasts of the dirt and religious imagery of the crossed wooden tools is powerful, especially in the song's closing seconds when the track is overwhelmed with white noise.  Pussy Riot evokes Eric Garner in new video 'I Can't Breathe' 2015-02-18T05:00:00Z

Lynn’s life takes a stark turn after she follows a tip from one of the store’s workers about another job, a seemingly friendly gesture that sends her down a twisting, progressively strange path. ‘Stonewalling’ Review: A Young Woman’s Exchange Value 2023-03-09T05:00:00Z

“When the movie is focused on Jacky’s desperate and futile efforts to be a superman, it becomes a stark tragedy of masculinity and its chemical boundaries,” Stephen Holden wrote in The Times in February. DVD: Charlie Chaplin in ‘The Gold Rush,’ Remastered 2012-06-22T16:00:00Z

Inside, the palette initially seemed likewise reserved — dark timber and stark white walls lining what approximated a turn-of-the-century British home. A Glasgow Architect’s Masterpiece Is Damaged, but Not His Magic 2018-07-02T04:00:00Z

Occasions put everything into stark perspective that we’d rather not think about. Motherlode Blog: A Season for Resolution: Approaching an I.V.F. Deadline 2013-12-24T14:52:27Z

And Rupert Goold’s stark “Psycho”-in-the-Balkans-style version with Patrick Stewart, seen on Broadway in 2008, suggested that all the world’s a morgue and all the men and women merely walking corpses. | 'Macbeth': The Deed Is Done, the Doers Undone 2011-03-25T23:54:57Z

The way Drake steadily manicures his public image couldn’t stand in more stark contrast to how West manages his, and that’s the primary reason the current tension between them feels so asymmetric. Drake, in Search of an Enemy Besides Himself 2021-09-07T04:00:00Z

Winter dulls the landscape as green meadows turn beige and amber, and the ubiquitous twisted scrub oaks, leafless, appear stark and naked, hunched over like weathered old witches clutching broomstick and cane. Martha’s Vineyard, the Off-Season Version 2016-11-14T05:00:00Z

He was the focus of an award-winning documentary by James Toback, "Tyson," that took a stark, sobering and sometimes cringe-worthy look at his life. Tyson ready for Animal Planet debut in new series 2011-03-04T14:09:09Z

Just down the coast, I found a rural, stark, ethereally beautiful landscape that remains today, despite the occasional car and hurtling tractor, close to how Woolf would have remembered it as a child. In Search of Virginia Woolf’s Lost Eden in Cornwall 2018-02-26T05:00:00Z

Yellow and black chequered pillboxes dot the roadside with stark warnings: “Do not touch any military debris, it may explode and kill you.” To the lighthouse – one of the UK’s toughest bike rides 2020-06-17T04:00:00Z

This could be the stark plot of an opera by Janacek, who was drawn to tales of peasants sundered by desire. Review: A Tenor Offers a Subtle Model of Adventurousness 2019-02-25T05:00:00Z

Those outer movements are marked by a restless, muscular agitation, framing the quieter adagio in stark manner. Seattle Chamber Music Society summer fest ends on high note 2013-07-27T21:19:21Z

They stand apart from the stark white framework of the Mata Gallery, which contains them. In Brazil, a Museum Within a Museum Restores a Legacy 2022-02-18T05:00:00Z

For One Night at Fox, News Tops Agenda After it became clear that President Obama had won re-election, Fox was confronted with a stark choice between advocacy and news. Arts - Television - The New York Times 2012-11-12T21:50:49Z

The contrast is stark between Lecter, a man with no empathy, and Graham, a man with nothing but. Hannibal: will he satisfy our craving for small-screen serial killers? 2013-05-08T17:27:43Z

Instead, he sets the story in the white-tiled, stark environs of the Verona Institute, populated by teenagers who are strictly policed by guards and medics. Review: In Matthew Bourne’s ‘Romeo and Juliet,’ a Story of Even More Woe 2019-08-11T04:00:00Z

They are, however, one of the many stark differentiators between humankind and Vulcans. How Ethan Peck's Spock became the mirthful glue binding us to "Star Trek: Strange New Worlds" 2023-06-15T04:00:00Z

This exhibition makes the case for an Italian neorealist photography movement that may not have produced masterpieces at the same rate, but was more wide-ranging and less stark than its filmic counterpart. 10 Under-the-Radar Art Shows to See Now 2018-11-22T05:00:00Z

Dylan said the the LP was recorded with minimal takes and no overdubs, in stark contrast to the rich orchestrations of the Sinatra originals. Bob Dylan to release Sinatra covers album 2014-12-09T05:00:00Z

The stark black and white gangster films of the '20s — which is also the time frame of our story — were a huge inspiration. Watch the documentary “Bad Dog,” a true crime tale about Pep, the felonious pup 2018-06-22T04:00:00Z

The piece is monumental, stark and uncompromising, foregrounding the tension created by fugal structure, in which musical themes are alternately presented by different instruments, while the others play contrapuntal harmonies and rhythms. Review: Lyon Opera Ballet Showcases Beethoven and Female Choreographers 2016-11-21T05:00:00Z

It's my gut instinct that our future, much like our today, will be a stark mixture of both Big Brother and creator culture, with all the possibilities in between also represented. Future tech: Big Brother, big data or creator culture? 2013-03-14T10:26:52Z

The problem is perhaps starkest on America’s largest reservation. Growing change: Homegrown food is one safety net in a less stable world for Native Americans 2017-02-18T05:00:00Z

You might think of harsh, bright colors — the stark orange album cover, electric-blue CD, the olive-green star shirt worn by vocalist Michael Stipe. R.E.M.’s “Monster” and the legacy of an unsung melancholic masterpiece 2019-11-01T04:00:00Z

The Met and MoMA are New York’s two most popular art museums, but the contrast on Saturday was stark. Perspective | I just went to the Met and MoMA after five months away from museums. Someone, please, pick me up off the floor. 2020-08-31T04:00:00Z

Verdi's Otello and Harrison Birtwistle's The Minotaur stand in stark contrast, one a drama of circumstance, the other a tragedy of existence. Otello; The Minotaur – review 2013-01-20T00:07:21Z

In stark comparison to the over-the-top performances by the ladies of pop on the VMAs stage, British newcomer Sam Smith used a bare set to showcase his voice on his hit "Stay With Me." Pop's ladies take MTV VMAs stage with raunchy, upbeat performances 2014-08-25T04:00:00Z

It is good to show in stark outline what the real situation is, what the person at the other end of the whip is feeling. Chinua Achebe: A life in writing 2010-12-13T08:00:00Z

When I put the Lemon Kittens one winter I found them stark naked, daubing each other with paint. Rock'n'roll jobs explained 2010-04-15T21:05:00Z

The comparison with the mansion at Graceland in Memphis is stark. From Nashville to Tupelo on the Natchez Trace Parkway 2022-11-01T04:00:00Z

Set over three floors of a historic building with exposed brick walls and typically Scandinavian light wood floors, the warehouse space provides a stunning, stark backdrop to the brands’ heavy-hitting mix of midcentury designs. Carl Hansen & Son and Rud Rasmussen Open a Joint Showroom in London 2015-05-20T04:00:00Z

I was interested in how stark each leap was. "It's a quiet revolt": Filmmaker on how "The Last Tree" moves between Black and white spaces 2020-06-23T04:00:00Z

At a time when stark political divisions are driving headlines, a place like the Highlands and the solid appeal of Ms. Miles’ desserts have a new luster. An Alabama Chef and Her Beloved Desserts Hit the Big Time 2018-05-29T04:00:00Z

Among its tracks is an instrumental version of the traditional spiritual “City Called Heaven,” with a stark, commanding prelude on solo violin. John Blake Jr., Versatile Jazz Violinist, Dies at 67 2014-08-19T04:00:00Z

In stark personal terms, she reveals her own gender and sexual trauma, and doesn’t invite people to laugh at it. The Comedy-Destroying, Soul-Affirming Art of Hannah Gadsby 2018-07-24T04:00:00Z

In its heedless affront to bourgeois sensibilities, the relationship of Stravinsky and Chanel mirrors the revolutionary spirit of “The Rite of Spring,” as does Chanel’s preference for stark black-and-white. | 'Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky': Jan Kounen?s Tale of Artists in Love 2010-06-10T23:28:00Z

The stark contrasts between the two do a fantastic job of giving you senses of place and time. Game On: "Mafia II" has compelling characters, excellent plot 2010-08-25T19:19:00Z

That pattern of stark gender differences was repeated when young people were quizzed about other key aspects of their feelings and behaviour, Kelly’s team found. Depression in girls linked to higher use of social media 2019-01-03T05:00:00Z

Is it the stark beauty of the land? New crime fiction: a trio of 'tartan noir' mysteries 2012-11-07T23:14:04Z

They remain in the same apartment, while ghostly manifestations of their missing sister create a stark contrast between their aging bodies and those of their brimming younger selves. ‘The Macaluso Sisters’ Review: Tragedy Across Time 2021-08-05T04:00:00Z

His stark message: Don’t end up like me. The Man Who Coaches Husbands on How to Avoid Divorce 2020-05-18T04:00:00Z

Several use stark geometric forms to invoke the hypnotic flow often associated with Australian Aboriginal “dreamtime” patterns, while others depict imploding stars and an air of primal energy. The Artist Ben Morea Returns to the Site of the Revolution 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z

Some see the emerging body of brash political poetry as a stark departure from the more introspective, personal style that characterized so much of 20th-century American poetry. American Poets, Refusing to Go Gentle, Rage Against the Right 2017-04-21T04:00:00Z

The stark differences are summed up perfectly in one tweet, describing the vastly different entrances of imagined queens. From eleganza to gizza ciggie: how reality shows like Drag Race offer a window into foreign cultures 2020-07-23T04:00:00Z

“The Naked Island,” released in 1960, is a stark, wordless drama, filmed in quasi-documentary style, about an impoverished farming family scraping out a living on a barren outcropping devoid of fresh water. Kaneto Shindo, Filmmaker, Dies at 100 2012-06-01T15:03:10Z

He was an actor's director, known for eliciting nuanced, moving and daring performances and imbuing his films with a stark social realism. 'Most Violent Year's' J.C. Chandor on the Sidney Lumet link 2015-01-17T05:00:00Z

Many of the works by the Alabama artist Bill Traylor, stark silhouette drawings with striking, significant blocks of color, are drawn on scraps of paper, or someone else’s stationery — things like that. ‘Bill Traylor: Chasing Ghosts’ Review: He Made a ‘Pill for the Pain’ 2021-04-15T04:00:00Z

His images were not exactly neutral; often, stark shadows loom behind the sculptures. Art Review: ‘African Art, New York, and the Avant-Garde’ at the Met 2012-12-20T23:10:44Z

It stands in stark relief against the movie’s consistently cartoonish portrayals of the white slavers. ‘Emperor’ Review: A Once-Enslaved Man Has a Date With Destiny 2020-08-18T04:00:00Z

"Ebola kills!" was the initial motto of a belated nationwide campaign, a stark tone which may have dissuaded some sick people from coming forward to face that truth. Thankless, dangerous – the task of the Ebola burial boys in Sierra Leone 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z

Her desire to leave her urban life behind is also motivated by stark need: five months pregnant, and preparing for single motherhood, she needs a job that comes with health insurance. | 'How the World Began': Catherine Trieschmann?s ?How the World Began? - Review 2012-01-09T03:01:00Z

Contrasting these pieces are stark pencil renderings of news photos, with captions that place each scene specifically, whether in Germany in 1945 or near the Greek island of Lesbos in 2016. In the galleries: Elvis and E.T. meet an ancient Asian art form 2016-12-01T05:00:00Z

The stark footage of a man being blown up by remote intelligence forces can’t help but strike a chord with recent American concerns about government-ordered drone attacks in U.S. cities. ‘The Gatekeepers’: Israel’s former security chiefs open up 2013-03-14T20:57:24Z

The buoyant mood was in stark contrast to 2009, when the volumes of private sales and public auctions at Christie's, Sotheby's and their smaller rivals contracted dramatically. Basel art fair suggests boom times are back 2011-06-17T09:22:43Z

The stark, spare textures of the brief work provided a striking contrast to the noise and frenzy of the preceding scores. Music Review | Flux Quartet: At Bargemusic, Microtones of Annie Gosfield and David First 2010-03-15T06:10:00Z

He is seen looking in on footage of the auto repair shop beneath the apartment he lived in along with stark images of the city at the time. David Bowie to release new album, with surprise single out now 2013-01-08T06:58:00Z

At the end, the instruments drop away for a stark a cappella: “Nine months til the deadline/and nine weeks to make up your mind.” The Playlist: Jay Z Sips Lemonade and Adele Divides and Conquers 2016-05-27T04:00:00Z

The stark room with black walls is dark except for the fluorescent glow of three circular screens, each 3 feet in diameter. Floodwaters make statement in 'Holoscenes' at Museum of California Art 2015-02-18T05:00:00Z

On the first page of the text, we are confronted with a stark black-and-white illustration of an urban grid, a drone’s-eye view of the “hood” and the arteries of freeways around it. In Bryan Washington’s ‘Lot,’ Stories Reveal Houston’s Hidden Borders 2019-05-14T04:00:00Z

Geological Survey June Breeding Bird Surveys are carefully replicated annual counts along designated routes, and they offer a stark population comparison between the 1960s and the 2010s. Animal Doctor: Booster vaccinations and the reasons cats lose weight 2017-04-21T04:00:00Z

But even when there’s no white stuff, the stark solitude is beautiful. 36 Hours in Santa Fe 2014-11-26T05:00:00Z

The jacket’s stark caricature is a hoot, but not everyone will think so. Cool Beach Books for Hot Summer Days 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z

That was the small but seismic step Benjamin took in Palimpsests, and the pieces were the gateway to his finding the economy, directness and stark but subtle simplicity he needed to tell stories on stage. A guide to George Benjamin's music 2013-02-25T12:41:11Z

A philosophy that stands in stark opposition to today’s cancel-everything zeitgeist. ‘Be kind to everyone’: Ellen DeGeneres defends hanging out with George Bush 2019-10-08T04:00:00Z

“Dunkirk” is just as loud and thrilling as those previous hits, although it’s also a stark departure. ‘Dunkirk’ director Christopher Nolan excels at building suspense. Here’s how he does it. 2017-07-14T04:00:00Z

Not long after, he embarked on an astonishing series of huge acrylic canvases of high-key deep greens, reds, violets and oranges deployed in radiant fields, stark blocks and shimmering columns of ultra-vibrant colour. John Hoyland obituary 2011-08-01T19:14:31Z

It is not so much a fusion of styles as a series of stark oppositions: serenity v violence, classical v digital. These New Puritans with the Britten Sinfonia ? review 2010-10-24T20:46:00Z

I soon learned the north–south divide was stark, just like in the Old Country, and I’d landed in Milan. Arrivederci, Little Italy 2019-12-08T05:00:00Z

Some of Gamma’s actual tapes, with their exuberantly hand-lettered text, are placed on display atop stark white lozenges that hang in midair, suspended by chains that are the same yellow as the chutes. In the galleries: Showcasing an artist’s exploration and influence 2021-08-04T04:00:00Z

As embodied by Donna Murphy, her dishonorable Honor turns stark, raving political ambition into a knock-’em-dead floor show, the likes of which City Hall has never seen. | 'Anyone Can Whistle': Sondheim Tribute to Politics and Other Craziness 2010-04-10T00:20:00Z

A watercolor bubble of a girl holding a cat pops up on a stark map of Nicky’s tour of banks across Europe, where we watch him say hello in English, French and German. A Captivating New Picture Book Celebrates the ‘British Schindler’ 2021-01-27T05:00:00Z

The work presented the Royal Ballet's dancers in a strange, stark new context, and proved so successful that McGregor was invited by artistic director Monica Mason to be choreographer-in-residence with the company. Ballet's rock star 2011-01-02T00:03:05Z

That’s a stark change from when Saudi morality police would raid establishments that played loud music. AP Exclusive: Nicki Minaj pulls out of Saudi Arabia concert 2019-07-09T04:00:00Z

This conflict is at its starkest in the exhausting cadenza, where the soloist's musical personality breaks itself down to nothing before re-emerging in rampaging gestures, with a force derived from a fragile hold on despair. Prom 44: Batiashvili/Philharmonia/Salonen ? review 2011-08-18T10:35:10Z

Inger led Stockholm’s Cullberg Ballet for five years, and “Walking Mad” was infused with the stark, unsettling and quirkily theatrical style of that experimental company founded by the acclaimed choreographer Birgit Cullberg.  A fiery tribute to female power: Ella Fitzgerald and Alvin Ailey dancers in ‘Ella’ 2017-02-08T05:00:00Z

Peggy: I was struck by the severe and stark beauty of the landscape, all blues, whites and browns. A trip to Antarctica, to escape D.C. winter (oh, and for other reasons) 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z

So why are his dance tracks so stark, so lean? Review | Marcellus Pittman makes dance music out of the spaces in between 2018-05-04T04:00:00Z

But while predictions of a "bloodbath" in London's theatreland proved to be wrong, away from London there were stark warnings from regional theatres about funding cuts. Theatre review of 2012 2012-12-28T07:52:36Z

Salonen didn't emphasise its stark tragic grandeur as much as some conductors do, but it was still mightily impressive. Philharmonia/Salonen – review 2013-05-17T15:50:26Z

In yet another, a woman is painting the walls stark white, her eyes powerfully blank. A Young Artist Charts the Journey from “Haiti to Hood” 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z

“What I remember most is the stark contrast to the preposterous glamour.” 2010-01-31T05:37:00Z

“It doesn’t need to; this stark and riveting version of events speaks for itself.” What’s on TV Saturday 2016-05-14T04:00:00Z

A narrow wedge of sky driven between seemingly opaque buildings casts the fernlike curl of a streetlight in stark silhouette. The Photographer Who Found His Power in Shades of Gray 2019-10-10T04:00:00Z

There on the screen was the article about my mother’s death, spelled out in the starkest terms. 2010-01-22T20:57:00Z

In March, the company will stage a stark and stylish “Faust,” inspired by Goethe’s epic about a scholar who makes a pact with the Devil. Concerts and Dance Tuned to the Season: Global Arts Guide 2016-12-21T05:00:00Z

But the scale of last season’s shortfall puts the company’s challenges into stark relief. Metropolitan Opera’s Deficit Swells to $22 Million 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z

And the band’s stark new version of “I Walk on Guilded Splinters” vividly revealed its boast and threat: “Pride begins to fade/And you all feel my malice.” Music Review: Dr. John at Brooklyn Academy of Music 2012-04-06T22:31:59Z

I wasn't ready to face the stark details of her experience, but I couldn't have said so at the time. In the house of alternative facts: How my parents' lies prepared me for post-truth America 2019-08-24T04:00:00Z

It does not display its collection in a pristine environment on stark walls but in a rickety wooden structure with a leaky roof and no heat. Where Some See Trash, She Sees Treasure 2019-03-12T04:00:00Z

Against a landscape in simple bands of black, green and blue stand three stark forms: a schematic figure with raised arms and two trees. Luchita Hurtado: The Elusive Artist Portrays Herself 2020-09-24T04:00:00Z

When they “get snuffed out,” the damage can be substantial — “if only because it reveals the stark truth that no one is exempt from the one unavoidable aspect of life: death.” The Lives of Four Andover Grads Cut Short 2019-07-29T04:00:00Z

"Unfinished Music No. 2: Life with the Lions" continued the couple’s stark life in self-portraiture. John Lennon and Yoko Ono's confessional, unapologetic "Wedding Album" 2019-04-26T04:00:00Z

The stark black-and-white drawings, made with the encouragement of her therapist, have the urgency of fighting back. Writers Recount Stories of Grief and Joy in Illustrated Panels 2017-05-16T04:00:00Z

Ling’s stark portraits capture some of these tensions as well. The Independent Mothers of Iceland 2015-07-12T04:00:00Z

Its look – plain tights and leotards – and its stark modern ballet steps invoke the neoclassical choreographer George Balanchine. Candoco Dance Company - review 2010-10-12T21:15:00Z

It was silly and surreal and ended up with them stark naked. Susan Calman: my Edinburgh survival tips 2012-07-29T17:19:01Z

This stark and profound novella set against one small corner of World War II is the first work by the French author Hubert Mingarelli to be translated into English. Review: Books by Amie Barrodale, Joy Williams, Hubert Mingarelli and Rikki Ducornet 2016-07-24T04:00:00Z

Her vivid blue eyes were rimmed in black liner, stark against her gently freckled skin. Ground beef, yes; sumac, no. This editor knows what food magazine readers want. 2016-07-01T04:00:00Z

These elements create a certain stark, sci-fi-tinged drama, one that seems imposed on the dance rather than generated by internal structures. Dance Review: Playing Like Children, but Much Is at Stake 2011-06-10T23:56:26Z

They arrive on eddies of hype and enthusiasm from across the pond, where the band’s stark, sparse live show regularly draws overflow crowds. Anger is an energy: The world’s best live band is made up of two middle-age British blokes in sweatpants 2017-04-06T04:00:00Z

The interactions between the two — one stark black, the other “bone white,” one adult, one child, but emotionally the same age — make for the still center of this furious story. Toni Morrison’s ‘God Help the Child’ 2015-04-13T04:00:00Z

As Lindsay noted in an Instagram post, the headline “is in stark contrast to the context of the piece,” of which she remains “very proud.” Analysis | Secrets from the ‘Bachelor’ franchise are spilling out, and they could change the show’s future 2021-06-22T04:00:00Z

Her second song was in a style not that far removed from Rachmaninoff and well suited for Anna Akhmatova's stark emotions. L.A. composers, singers take center stage at SongFest 2015 2015-06-23T04:00:00Z

Yet Kevin went on with this blog, weaving data from obscure sarcoma studies with tips for the ultimate chocolate chip cookies, punctuating it with the stark day-to-day realities of living with cancer. What he said before he died 2013-01-29T01:00:00Z

But the stark reality is that right from the get-go women still earn less than men. The gender pay gap is narrowing – here's how to close it completely 2017-01-05T05:00:00Z

Both were moved to tears by the work’s stark evocation of mortality. Music Review: New Jersey Symphony Orchestra at Prudential Hall 2013-01-06T21:57:01Z

The emotion of this piece, as in so many of Shorter’s tunes, is both stark and shrouded: Is it mournful? Wayne Shorter, a Jazz Hero Whose Goal Was ‘to Fear Nothing’ 2023-03-02T05:00:00Z

In another setting, though, it might seem merely stark, not spacey. In the galleries: The roots of these gardens run deep 2016-02-03T05:00:00Z

Opera Philadelphia filmed a stark black-and-white version of his song sequence “Cycles of My Being,” about Black masculinity and racial hatred. Tyshawn Sorey: The Busiest Composer of the Bleakest Year 2021-01-01T05:00:00Z

As an embodiment of menace, few images are more stark than a rifle or a bullet. Review | In the galleries: A visual rallying cry against gun violence 2018-03-29T04:00:00Z

The stark Negev Desert, filled with craters, multicolored sand and clusters of Bedouin villages, comprises more than half of Israel’s total mass. In Israel, Affordable Desert Adventures 2017-08-26T04:00:00Z

For all its stark material, this is also a hopeful series, artful without being pretentious, with a sense of poetry and play. ‘David Makes Man’ and the Matters of a Young Black Life 2020-07-23T04:00:00Z

A starker, sadder picture of the affair emerges in her private papers, where she wrote about it first, and with venom. Marguerite Duras’s ‘The Lover,’ and Notebooks That Enrich It 2017-11-21T05:00:00Z

His movies frequently explore the gap between wishful thinking and hard reality that so many Americans — black and white — fall into, and the final moments of “25th Hour” present it with stark and haunting clarity. The Essential Spike Lee 2020-06-02T04:00:00Z

By stark contrast, the show's most enchanting work is visually the slightest. Matthew Barney's 'River of Fundament'? Well, it's certainly big 2015-09-26T04:00:00Z

He said this occurred at a time U2, then arguably the world's most popular rock band, was seeking a "stark departure" from its trademark sound. U2 is sued for allegedly stealing song for 'Achtung Baby' 2017-02-28T05:00:00Z

His work was stark, thrilling, weirdly moving, and Andre rose to become a titan of American modern art, and one of the founders of minimalism. Carl Andre: 'I'm a hopeless drawer – and a terrible painter' 2013-01-23T19:00:01Z

The stark contrast between sea and rock, magnified by the crystalline Aegean sun, seems to answer some primal yearning for the marriage of opposites. Q&A: ‘Always Journeying to Someplace New Gets Old Fast’ 2014-01-14T20:23:22Z

A fragmented, incantatory immersion in clinical depression, filled with descriptions of psychotropic drugs, sets of numbers, angry rants and stark wordplay, the script specifies neither characters nor precise plot, nor even the number of performers. Cataclysmic Suffering Sprawls Through the Prototype Festival 2019-01-07T05:00:00Z

He allowed its melody to build to a crescendo from its quiet opening of voluminous shapes in stark white. Perspective | Fashion commits many sins. It’s trying to redeem itself. 2019-10-02T04:00:00Z

“I wanted that stark, almost black-and-white image,” Morrison said. The Pilgrims Who Visit the House in Andrew Wyeth’s “Christina’s World” 2019-05-08T04:00:00Z

He always wanted portion sizes to stand in stark opposition to the heaping platters at chain restaurants like the Cheesecake Factory, where you might dig into “a salad you keep eating for two hours.” Sky-High Prices? Bad Reviews? No Matter: Mr. Chow Powers On 2016-08-30T04:00:00Z

A wintry landscape of bare trunks and branches, this piece is as stark as “Flora Domestica” is lush. In the galleries: Expect the unexpected as two artists engage in a ‘Surreal Dialogue’ 2017-01-05T05:00:00Z

At one point, a solo French horn played a stark motif, joined in sequence by fluttering clarinets and a woodland stir of flutes and oboes, before the cellos brought in an anchoring line. Review: A New-Music Concert by the Orchestra of the S.E.M. Ensemble 2015-05-01T04:00:00Z

U.S.-led U.N. sanctions imposed against Iraq for 13 years beginning in 1990 in conjunction with the first Gulf War are a stark example of this. An American century of carnage: Measuring violence in a single superpower world 2017-04-01T04:00:00Z

The differences in perception are even starker in those areas of domesticity that require the scheduling, organizing and generally managing children. Husbands and Wives Have Different Perceptions of Childcare 2015-11-04T05:00:00Z

The Michigan plaintiffs put the situation in stark terms in a recent motion for summary judgment. Why is it becoming harder to buy wine online? 2018-03-23T04:00:00Z

Her stark, minimalist approach stitches together straight and circular motifs in space with fleet footwork and military authority. A Choreographer Dancing With Ghosts, and the Future 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z

But Lee’s movie dramatized a starker truth — we couldn’t all just get along. Why Do the Oscars Keep Falling for Racial Reconciliation Fantasies? 2019-01-23T05:00:00Z

In this Sunday’s Arts & Leisure, I wrote about this peculiar phenomenon, and how it’s a fun house mirror version of the 1990s, when hip-hop’s mainstream and underground wings were in stark opposition to each other. Popcast: Hip-Hop’s Silent Majority 2015-07-10T04:00:00Z

Those real things stand next to his fabrications in stark contrast. Perspective | When writer Hache Carrillo died, the world discovered his true identity. What does that mean for his legacy? 2020-07-06T04:00:00Z

In this time of mass displacement across the globe, it is a stark reminder of how traumatic the refugee experience often is. Review: Uncovering a Displaced Family’s Past in ‘Aida’s Secrets’ 2017-10-19T04:00:00Z

But, there’s a stark difference: The limp, battered body of a crucified Christ emerges from the labial folds of the robe worn by God. Martin Luther broke Europe in two, and Albrecht Dürer painted it back together 2016-11-21T05:00:00Z

Four days later, the vote in Maine Township was starker — 58 percent for Goldwater, despite LBJ’s landslide in the rest of the country. Always running, always prepared: Hillary Clinton as a high school politician 2016-10-17T04:00:00Z

“To remove those books denies that opportunity for education, and is also is an act of erasure, a very stark message that you don’t belong here, your stories don’t belong here.” Attempts to Ban Books Are Accelerating and Becoming More Divisive 2022-09-16T04:00:00Z

If conflicting emotions are interwoven in the Brahms, Mr. Tan isolates them and pits them in stark opposition. Review: Death, Two Ways, at the New York Philharmonic 2019-02-08T05:00:00Z

As a teenage Holocaust survivor, Geve drew dozens of stark pictures recalling his experience, presented here alongside his descriptions and memories. New & Noteworthy, From El Chapo to a Holocaust Survivor’s Art 2021-07-20T04:00:00Z

The play’s stark final scene finds our leading men stripped to their essences. Review: Jealousy and Lies in a No-Exit Theater of War in ‘Othello’ 2016-12-12T05:00:00Z

The open-sided utilitarian space, its raised platform backed by a stark vertical cut through with a ventilation seam, resembled nothing so much as a proscenium from a de Chirico painting. Finding Mexico City, and Luis Barragán, Again 2014-06-13T04:00:00Z

This world-building has a stark thematic simplicity that both belies and inspires immense complexity. Review: Jordan Peele’s “Us” Is a Colossal Cinematic Achievement 2019-03-23T04:00:00Z

Iridium is also a stark reminder of how rapidly tech giants can decline. Highs and lows 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z

They look a little like neglected shop windows, yet they achieve a stark, haunting beauty even as they rather too obviously evoke the kind of woods where refugees hide. Art Review: A Spectacle With a Message 2010-11-19T06:45:00Z

“I can’t blame it on Trump. I blame it on chemistry, on my rheumatoid arthritis, on the stark reminders of mortality.” They’re Mad as Hell 2019-07-30T04:00:00Z

Fashion plates on view show how mourners sought to incorporate general trends into the stark wardrobe they were bound to for often years at a time. Historic Mourning Clothes on View at the Costume Institute 2014-10-20T04:00:00Z

Toward the end of her set, she ripped off one of her many ‘90s-cyberpunky wigs to reveal a pasted matte of black hair, and played “Born This Way” as a stark and lonely solo number. Lady Gaga looks for raves at Staples Center 2014-07-22T04:00:00Z

A nocturne, it was a very plain, almost stark painting, implicitly geometric despite the natural subject, and beautifully constructed. ArtsBeat: Critic's Notebook: Lessons in Looking 2012-03-06T20:52:15Z

Even after Weiss’s drums finally crash in, each element remains distinct and stark: This is music that wants to be consumed ear-first, flowing from the mind into the body. Justin Bieber and Chance the Rapper’s Wholesome Team-Up, and 10 More New Songs 2020-09-18T04:00:00Z

It’s a stark reminder that this is contemporary Europe, not some cruel dystopia. Shot at, beaten, starved: the child refugees who will stop at nothing to reach Europe 2017-03-10T05:00:00Z

I am pulling a shift as a kitchen porter at The Ivy, and I am quickly coming to a stark conclusion: these are shoes I am not fit to fill. Wash, clean, scrub: Can Jay Rayner hack life as a kitchen porter? 2015-08-23T04:00:00Z

But these episodes, stark as they may sound, don’t capture the essence of my memories of my mother. Modern Love: Appreciating a Difficult Mother 2010-03-12T18:40:00Z

A 2004 show staged outdoors as a group of wandering hippies was in stark contrast to a 2009 runway of conservative tailoring, strong on formal elements, that seemed to abandon youth culture. Dior Turns to Raf Simons 2012-04-09T16:27:12Z

Simpler and starker than her earlier work, they constitute the strongest intervention on the Met roof since 2014, when Dan Graham — another artist engaged with the riddle of perception — installed a reflective pavilion up here. Celestial Visions on the Met Roof 2019-04-18T04:00:00Z

Directed with lots of air-devouring pauses by Daniel Aukin, with a stark black set designed by Eugene Lee, this Signature Theater production calls ponderous attention to its great metaphysical themes. Theater Review: Sam Shepard’s ‘Heartless’ Opens, With Lois Smith 2012-08-28T02:00:00Z

In landscape, his most famous subject was the city of San Francisco, whose steep hills he portrayed in a fantasy-like way, with spectacular angles and stark shadows. Wayne Thiebaud, painter of lush colors and textures, dies 2021-12-26T05:00:00Z

She's not always pleasant but she is a frank and funny and often stark and moving - a tribute to Coel's energetic performance. Coel: A rising star at the National 2014-03-25T08:07:12Z

We eventually learn that the fourth dancer, Dodzi Dougban, is deaf, which makes the stark, silent solo he performs near the start all the more haunting. Dance Review: Patricia Noworol Teams Up With Renegade for a Dance Theater Piece 2013-06-14T22:09:22Z

But the house in the movie looks much starker, much whiter, much emptier than the way that we live. | Laurie Simmons 2010-11-19T23:45:00Z

Michael Yeargan’s set is stark, a paradigm of luxuriously austere Scandinavian chic. Review: ‘Oslo’ Fills a Large Canvas in a Thrilling Production 2017-04-13T04:00:00Z

The stark red-on-black "Self-Portrait" is scheduled to be sold at Christie's post-war and contemporary art sale on May 11, the auction house announced Wednesday. Andy Warhol self-portrait to be sold in NYC 2011-04-20T19:46:05Z

Despite this stark evidence, a recent Gallup poll found that only 45 percent of Americans believe climate change will pose a serious threat in their lifetime. ‘The Ash Family’ Is a Debut Novel for Our Climate-Anxious Age 2019-05-16T04:00:00Z

With Rolf Hind as the dauntless soloist, it was a compelling experience, full of wonderful textures, extraordinary fusions of the solo piano with the tuned percussion in the orchestra and moments of stark, strange poetry. Lachenmann weekend - review 2010-10-25T21:29:00Z

And the social problems unpicked by The Wire at the start of the century are still as stark and unresolved as ever. From The Sopranos to Twin Peaks: the best TV isn’t timeless – it’s prescient 2021-02-01T05:00:00Z

The Andrew “Pop” Wansel-produced “The Crying Game” gets starker both in content– “blood drippin’ out your arm on my Asian rugs … now we in the crying game, hearts laced with slugs” – and spiky guitar backing. Review: Nicki Minaj Reinvents Herself on Personal The Pinkprint 2014-12-17T05:00:00Z

The crime serial was a sensation in its first season, a bewitching blend of stark, evocative visuals, existential dread and Gothic subtext that announced both Mr. Fukunaga and Mr. Pizzolatto as major talents. Cary Joji Fukunaga on the Perils of Making ‘Beasts of No Nation’ 2015-10-21T04:00:00Z

Albert is more concerned about the approaching apocalypse, prophesied by fellow communard Marina, who has imbibed the Mayan calendar's stark predictions, backed up by astronomical evidence of an impending galactic catastrophe. Wild Abandon by Joe Dunthorne ? review 2011-07-29T21:58:00Z

Daniel Fish’s production, which won the Tony Award for best musical revival, seems to bend the rules of history, too, punctuating a turn-of-the-century tale with stark violence and a dreamlike contemporary dance. Seeing ‘Oklahoma!’ One More Time? She Cain’t Say No 2019-10-29T04:00:00Z

Later, though, K meets an Usher of the court who tells him the stark reality: "We don’t put people on trial for no reason." Glass's operatic 'The Trial' brings Kafka up to date 2014-10-12T04:00:00Z

Throughout the record, your ear is often guided into a comforting pocket of melody or something resembling a pattern, with Brennan’s vibes resounding against a stark background of silence. Billie Eilish and Rosalía Join Eccentric Forces, and 12 More New Songs 2021-01-22T05:00:00Z

By high school, the difference is stark: young women reported a 56 percent higher rate of harassment than young men in grades 9-12. Girls experience more gender-related bullying than boys 2014-07-29T04:00:00Z

The plot may sound strange but the book demonstrates that few words and the starkest of illustrations are necessary to capture your heart. Amnesty teen takeover: Sara Grant's top 10 books that entertain and inspire 2012-08-22T11:19:10Z

In Braslavsky’s starker show in the Common Ground Gallery, the vegetation is all on paper. In the galleries: Many ways to express ‘Light & Movement’ 2016-12-29T05:00:00Z

There is much to admire in Van Dyk’s character: his perseverance, the stark pioneer spirit honed in his youth, his desire to seek the truth. A Freed Hostage Audits the Murky Business of Captive Negotiations 2017-12-15T05:00:00Z

But Mr. Lithgow provides windows of shamed, quiet lucidity that allow us to connect, touchingly and fleetingly, with his stark, raving character. ‘King Lear’ in the Park, Starring John Lithgow 2014-08-05T04:00:00Z

We enjoy expedition travel, seeing the stark polar landscapes and the wildlife that lives in such extreme conditions, accessible only from boats. From the bottom of the world to the top, two friends explore the poles 2016-09-01T04:00:00Z

The western edge of the island is almost lunar: white and brown, stark and rocky, pocked with narrow, water-filled crevices that reflect the clouds. Stalking the Trump Family’s Roots 2018-10-16T04:00:00Z

Lorenzo Tugnoli, a freelance photographer, won in the feature photography category for his stark and gripping portfolio of images from war-torn Yemen that were commissioned and published by The Post. Washington Post wins Pulitzer Prizes for criticism, photography; affiliated cartoonist also honored 2019-04-15T04:00:00Z

As in the past, Apted blends scenes from the earlier movies into the new material, a stark reminder of the passage of time. ‘63 Up’ Review: Time Keeps on Slippin’, Slippin’, Slippin’ 2019-11-26T05:00:00Z

“We’re all faced with a kind of stark new way to think about our personalities that we always took for granted,” she says. Meet the introverts who are dreading a return to normal 2021-04-09T04:00:00Z

If so, the Gods are having a field day shattering and rearranging Vincenzo’s life, teaching him “the stark reality, the abject arbitrariness and stupidity of the world, that life was an insult to everyone’s plans.” ‘The Dismal Science’: a dark brew of angst and economics 2014-01-22T22:35:56Z

At Tate Modern, a diorama of his studio on East 59th Street from that period shows the stark white two-room apartment covered in configurations of primary-colored cardboard rectangles, like test studies for his geometric paintings. A Strange, but Elegant, Artistic Match 2023-07-27T04:00:00Z

Their primal indignation over the sexual nature of Naz’s alleged crimes is stark contrast to the ways that the courts process things; raw, dripping emotionality against the dispassionate grind of the law. “The Night Of” recap: The new, terrifying reality sets in 2016-07-25T04:00:00Z

"Houston in '81 looked very particular -- it was drawn along stark black-and-white lines," she said. Festival of Books: What's the secret to making a crime novel work? 2015-04-18T04:00:00Z

It is a stark example of how Trump as media commentator cuts both ways: while deriding mainstream outlets as “enemies of the people”, he champions those that offer flattering coverage. Trump has a new favourite news network - and it's more right-wing than FOX 2019-06-15T04:00:00Z

Libeskind's original designs included a memorial, but it was stark and dispiriting, an 8-acre area dropped 70 feet below street level. What Took So Long? Why the World Trade Center Still Isn't Finished 2011-09-09T09:00:00Z

The suite’s centerpiece is “Cycles,” which features elegant chamber writing and a wind-borne flute solo — all of which sets up a stark contrast with a searing spoken-word poem delivered by the actor Jeremie Harris. Preview NYC Winter Jazzfest in 7 Tracks 2017-01-04T05:00:00Z

Mr. Adjaye’s fall from grace is particularly stark in light of how high he had ascended. Cultural World Reassesses Ties to David Adjaye After Misconduct Allegations 2023-07-06T04:00:00Z

“All we like sheep” was sung with elegant legato and ended in stark loveliness, but it had little excitement. Kent Tritle and Musica Sacra Bring ‘Messiah’ to Carnegie 2014-12-24T05:00:00Z

In this instance, it’s a reference to Grand Hustle artist Iggy Azalea, who has been criticized by many for rapping in a bassy Atlanta drawl, a stark contrast to her native Australian lilt. Low record sales mean hip-hop artists must diversify to attract major music labels

Anna Politkovskaya, the journalist who paid with her life for her exposés of war crimes in Chechnya, put the issue in its starkest terms. Let Our Fame Be Great: Journeys Among the Defiant People of the?Caucasus by Oliver Bullough 2010-05-07T23:17:00Z

These small pictures balance the spartan and the sumptuous as they mix Greek and English text, and possess a stark beauty that should appeal to believers and skeptics alike. In the Galleries: Putting the ‘gold’ in ‘Gold Rush’

There is humour to be had of course, but we don't shirk away from the stark choices judges have to make in a place like Mega-City One. Comic lawman Dredd's Scots roots 2012-08-14T05:37:40Z

This novel represents motherhood in quite a stark light.Motherhood is so sentimentalised and romanticised in our culture. Barbara Kingsolver: 'Motherhood is so sentimentalised in our culture' 2013-05-11T14:00:02Z

His own first professional designs at Leatherhead, in 1957, were notably stark and ruffled the repertory theatre, which was unaccustomed to such modernity. David Myerscough-Jones obituary 2010-05-04T18:01:00Z

But there’s also a stark sense of distance between then and now. The Intoxicating Promise of New York City’s Night-Life Flyers 2016-12-05T05:00:00Z

Daniel Sandu’s film stays delicately balanced between both these possibilities, with the steep, stark setting providing an elemental backdrop for existential quandaries. Stream These Five International Films Now 2021-09-24T04:00:00Z

The stark staccato motif of the third movement is reprised in the sixth. Classical Recording: Michael Hersch: Sonata No. 1 & 2 2010-04-30T18:41:00Z

In this episode we saw a stark contrast: Mitch was willing to kill people just for their supplies, while Pete was not. The Walking Dead Watch: “Dead Weight” 2013-11-25T03:00:21Z

The 11th Street Bridge Park seeks to connect communities on each side of a river that has always represented a stark economic gap between the haves and have-nots, perhaps now more than ever. Can D.C. build a $45 million park for Anacostia without pushing people out? 2016-01-20T05:00:00Z

A stark contrast with the West was practically forced in our faces at the festival, as one of Europe’s preeminent avant-gardists, Eugenio Barba, who never tolerates such unruliness, was a headline attraction. Can a sleepy Chinese town become a cultural mecca? 2013-06-08T23:00:00Z

In celebration of the band's 50th anniversary, stark commentary from the Stones themselves to go with tour photos, candids and close-ups. Guide to coffee table books as holiday gifts 2012-11-13T20:19:13Z

But the numbers from Capital Bikeshare tell a stark, though not shocking, story: People ride to work much less often in the winter. What bike and run commuters need to know to keep it up through winter 2016-01-19T05:00:00Z

It is a starker book than “To Kill a Mockingbird,” more reactive to its moment; a common theme involves what its characters regard as the overreach of the U.S. Review: Harper Lee's 'Go Set a Watchman' reveals a darker side of Maycomb 2015-07-11T04:00:00Z

Mr. Galassi has done well to gather works of various dates in each section, thus avoiding a stark comparison between early and late career. | 'Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Modern Century': ?Henri Cartier-Bresson,? a Retrospective at MoMA 2010-04-08T22:08:00Z

Beautiful, stark and filled with tension, Andrea Ferrari’s new exhibition, “Wild Window,” is like making your way through a museum of curiosities in the dark, armed only with a flashlight. | A Haunting Display of Specimens Large and Small 2014-05-01T21:07:34Z

As the stark realities of living on a bounded planet become ever clearer, slowly it's seeping into every corner of our daily lives. For our next short story series: we're taking on water 2013-03-15T14:03:47Z

BuzzFeed editor Ben Smith described the seizure in stark terms as “what looks like a case of law enforcement interfering with a reporter’s constitutional right to gather information about her own government.” Perspective | Shocked by Trump aggression against reporters and sources? The blueprint was drawn by Obama. 2018-06-08T04:00:00Z

Rampling’s stance on diversity is in stark contrast to the views of a number of her fellow nominees. Charlotte Rampling finds herself outnumbered in Oscars diversity row 2016-01-22T05:00:00Z

The difference between private and public education is starting to look alarmingly stark, even when we are not talking specifically about standardized tests. SAT’s right answers are all wrong 2013-05-20T21:11:00Z

Now, restaurants offering takeout are stark reminders of contagion and risk. What we lose when a great American city has no nightlife 2020-03-24T04:00:00Z

The two works seemed to complement the spare, stark gestures of Morton Feldman’s “The Viola in My Life” No. 3, part of a series he began in 1970 for viola with different instrumental combinations. At the Stone, the Flux Quartet Flexes Its Muscles 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z

Produced by Joey Burns of the roots-rock band Calexico, and principally recorded in that band’s hometown, Tucson, it plants Mr. Lee and his tunes in a stark landscape, enveloped by rustling percussion and reverberant drones. Critics? Choice: New CDs 2011-01-24T23:19:27Z

The stark and elegant black-and-white piece sits alone in Cap Homme/Ralph Adams Park in Palm Desert, strikingly dividing neat apartment complexes on one side and a vast stretch of open desert on the other. Desert X aims to be the Coachella of the art world. Here's a sneak peek 2017-02-23T05:00:00Z

It may be the most unsettling scene in either of these stark, sometimes gruesome studies. Television Review: David Morrissey Plays a Cop in ‘Thorne,’ on Encore 2012-06-11T22:31:34Z

In its complaint, The Satanic Temple also objected that the evil antagonists in “Sabrina” were depicted in a manner “in stark contrast to TST’s tenets and beliefs.” Satanic Temple sues Netflix over 'Sabrina' use of Baphomet deity 2018-11-08T05:00:00Z

There was a stark uniformity to the clothing, both cohesively and militaristically. | Patrick Ervell 2011-02-13T18:46:58Z

The results – tall dark towers rising against a stark white sky – were enough to enshrine Weston as an American modernist master. Edward Weston: the greatest American photographer of his generation? 2010-08-18T15:49:00Z

This conscientiously assembled production’s stark opening image presents a solitary woman locked in what appears to be mortal combat with a breast pump. Review: In ‘Cal in Camo,’ a Raw Welcome to Motherhood 2016-05-20T04:00:00Z

What matters in “Photographs of the American Vernacular” are intense, often primary colors and stark compositions that emphasize the stage-set quality of light-industrial structures such as gas stations and tire stores. In the galleries: Two photographers, two perspectives 2015-08-06T04:00:00Z

Perfectly wrought in gnomic scenes, it treats Beckett with spare, sometimes stark delicacy. The Philharmonic’s New Season: What We Want to Hear 2020-02-12T05:00:00Z

How unexpected: The stark beauty of quaint Prince Edward Island, Canada’s smallest province, surprised me. In the Canadian Maritimes, embracing native history, music and culture 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z

But their language, their stark poverty, was untranslatable, and I moved among them behind a crystal wall of privilege. Notes on the Exotic 2014-11-03T05:00:00Z

Magazine Street In stark contrast to the French Quarter's formal treasures, Magazine Street is a hodgepodge of very fine antiques, not-so-fine antiques, and just old stuff. Treasure Hunting in New Orleans 2011-02-15T20:20:04.570Z

Zuabi, the project’s artistic director, said he’d chosen Rome for Amal’s nightmares because of the stark contrast between the city’s wondrous architecture and the realities that the project was trying to draw attention to. Four Months, 5,000 Miles: A Refugee Puppet Looks for Home 2021-11-10T05:00:00Z

Transience dominates: A string or a woodwind instrument, sometimes doubling the vocal line, sighs and dissipates against a stark orchestral landscape. 5 Classical Music Albums You Can Listen to Right Now 2022-05-26T04:00:00Z

“Battlefield,” in contrast, was a short, stark work, as concise as a proverb. A Cutting-Edge Impresario Leaves BAM: What Was His Best Work? 2017-05-04T04:00:00Z

If there’s a lesson here it’s a stark one, something outlined by Rick in the opening minutes of the episode: The weak will drag you down. ‘The Walking Dead’ Season 6, Episode 3: ‘Thank You’ 2015-10-25T04:00:00Z

The drummer Paul Motian, who died last month at 80, was revered in jazz circles for the sly, suggestive economy of his playing and the stark, deceptive ease of his compositions. Music: Jazz Records Inspired by Paul Motian 2011-12-04T04:03:06Z

The same cry echoes today in the rallies and online invective of the right; though Cowie keeps his focus on the past, his book sheds stark light on the present. When Freedom Meant the Freedom to Oppress Others 2022-12-12T05:00:00Z

Like “Socrates,” it made stark use of dancers falling to their “deaths” and of funereal black scrims filling the stage background in changing configurations. Love, death yield mild results from Mark Morris Dance Group 2014-02-15T17:36:00Z

With Mr. Wordsworth’s conducting, the Stravinsky score sounded as bold and stark as ever. Dance Review: ‘Birthday Offering’ and ‘Les Noces’ at Royal Ballet, London 2012-07-08T21:27:34Z

Striking too is the way the three short acts hurtle toward a stark conclusion that denies the heroine a traditional final solo, let alone a mad scene. Caramoor festival scores with Donizetti rarity 2010-07-25T18:16:00Z

The violence is ugly, stark, almost businesslike and is largely presented without music cues or any obvious filmmaking commentary. Movie Review: Jessica Chastain in ‘Zero Dark Thirty’ 2012-12-17T23:06:45Z

The optimism and collaborative dynamics are decidedly more in tune with the director's early, commune-set "Together" than with his stark experimental work. 'We Are the Best!' an exuberant punk rock tale 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z

The chairman of Tyson Foods has issued a stark warning to Americans following the shuttering of multiple meat processing plants across the country: “The food supply chain is breaking.” 'Food supply chain is breaking,' Tyson Foods chairman says as processing plants continue to close 2020-04-27T04:00:00Z

Mr. Fish is providing a stark illumination that allows those homesteaders we once thought were so wholesome no place to hide, even when it’s pitch dark. Review: There’s a Dark, Golden Haze in This Reclaimed ‘Oklahoma!’ 2018-10-07T04:00:00Z

As he revealed the stark details of her cruelty, his eyes welled up. Why do some men coerce sex? | Don Greif 2018-04-07T04:00:00Z

Belonging to the fictional Black woman whose home we are visiting, it makes the rupture between what was and what was denied to its real life inhabitants more stark and stunning. Afrofuturist Room at the Met Redresses a Racial Trauma 2021-11-17T05:00:00Z

The contrast between their big, healthy voices and the crackly, thin recorded playbacks was stark. Romancing the Horn: Opera Stars Record Like It’s 1900 2018-04-20T04:00:00Z

Graham-Dixon therefore hovers on the periphery, sharply characterising the places where Caravaggio worked – theocratic Rome, Naples with its swarming beggars, or stark, fortified Malta – and letting paintings allegorically narrate the artist's life. Caravaggio: A Life Sacred and Profane 2010-06-26T23:11:00Z

It’s a stark contrast from his initial “trap or die” mantra of the mid-2000s. Jeezy evolves from ‘Trap or Die’ to ‘Grow or Die’ 2020-11-27T05:00:00Z

This view is rooted either in stark realism or fear — fear of change and fear that our least optimistic assumptions about our metropolis are true. Seeking answers to L.A.'s 99-seat theater crisis in the legacies of two theatrical trailblazers 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z

Sometimes, though, the movies and real life intersect, and the latter casts the former in a stark light. New film, old media 2011-01-13T14:58:31Z

His debut album, Dear, which crept out of his bedroom three years ago, dissected heartbreak with stark honesty. Keaton Henson: Birthdays – review 2013-02-14T21:55:01Z

Emin's 'Still Love You Margate' and 'Margate 1 Sand' will also catch the eye -- stark and blurry odes to an unspectacular English seaside resort town. Britain unveils historic and hip government art 2011-06-03T11:17:18Z

I tried to modulate across the book so that more lyrical essays bumped up against starker prose-poem-ish studies of people or geographies. "Dear Damage" author on when your family's tragedy makes headlines 2022-04-16T04:00:00Z

It's not hard to imagine what Larsson would think about the smoldering embers of his stark investigation into the cruelties that men inflict upon women. Does 'The Girl in the Spider's Web' hurt the legacy of Stieg Larsson's Lisbeth Salander? 2015-08-27T04:00:00Z

When we were shooting one of those scenes from his and her perspectives – his has this beautiful romantic mood lighting and hers was starker and less flattering. The Secrets of Filming Sex Scenes 2015-02-27T05:00:00Z

The stark details of life in black and white are here. Susan Straight on the powerful connection between memory, photos and the stories we tell 2018-01-18T05:00:00Z

As Seager urges in her stark, bewitching new memoir, “The Smallest Lights in the Universe,” we have to shake loose “of our Earth-based biases — our ‘terracentrism,’ … that peculiar blindness born of being human.” These Books Transport You to a Galaxy Far, Far Away 2020-08-18T04:00:00Z

The profound resonance, hinged on an axis of sameness and difference, was stark, beautiful, haunting. Movie Review: ‘Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry,’ on the Chinese Artist 2012-07-26T22:42:29Z

The memoirs — published by Mark Twain — were stark in their honesty. At West Point, warriors shaped through Plutarch and Shakespeare 2015-05-11T04:00:00Z

Then he would abruptly describe the situation in starker terms: “We’re going back to our most barbaric selves,” he said. Matthew McConaughey Wrote the Book on Matthew McConaughey 2020-10-14T04:00:00Z

Magoon's fifth novel is a stark yet captivating read that is both relevant and necessary. A black teen is shot in Kekla Magoon's 'How It Went Down' 2014-10-30T04:00:00Z

His direct photographic style in stark black and white evokes the socially minded work that , Dorothea Lange and produced for the Farm Security Administration during the Depression. Milton Rogovin, Photographer, Dies at 101 2011-01-19T06:17:12Z

As for the idea of "heaven" she's conveying, it seems to be a place that's sometimes stark, sometimes brilliant in the way it glistens. Dance review: 'Heaven' is a place where sound, movement meld 2010-04-02T18:19:00Z

Others effectively illustrate the stark differences between America’s haves and have-nots. A tale of two literary Americas: What a book on inequality accidentally reveals about inequality 2017-09-02T04:00:00Z

A stark reminder Can be found behind her. Style Invitational: Gaaah! It’s Limerixicon XII 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z

In stark contrast to the behemoth companies of years past, major record labels no longer spend time developing a large roster of artists, Pollack said. Independent music labels project promising industry future 2015-02-11T05:00:00Z

Not physically, of course, but because being seated and stretching out in an “exclusive” seat felt wrong to me at a time when the discrepancies between sections are stark and steadily increasing. Champagne, duvets and a 180-degree seat: A frugal traveler’s introduction to first class 2017-07-13T04:00:00Z

The new album - titled My Favourite Faded Fantasy - was eventually recorded in Malibu, Los Angeles, and then, in stark contrast, Iceland. Damien Rice: Back in the spotlight 2014-11-12T05:00:00Z

And all of the string players confidently handled unconventional intonation in Mr. Sharafyan’s “Adumbrations of the Peacock,” a stark, mysterious and ultimately majestic concatenation of broken-bell piano chords, tremulous melodies and quivering textures. Music Review: Metropolitan Museum Artists in Concert - Review 2011-12-19T23:04:37Z

“Rectify” even dresses its death-row inmates in off-white jumpsuits and sticks them in stark white cells, giving the prison sequences an alien, ethereal quality. 3 small-screen shows that depict life in the big house 2014-08-13T04:00:00Z

With its stark Appalachian setting, piercing language and coolly ferocious title character, “Serena” was a big book filled with bleakly beautiful details. Books of The Times: Rural Pride and Poverty and a Hen?s Empty Nest 2010-03-08T08:48:00Z

Even in stark retrospect, these conflicting elements do not rule out each other. Review: ‘He Brought Her Heart Back,’ Adrienne Kennedy’s Beautiful Nightmare 2018-01-30T05:00:00Z

It is a mini-metropolis whose proximity to the Mexican border has resulted not only in a shadow economy but also some fairly stark racial and economic bifurcations. In Tucson, an Unsung Architectural Oasis 2015-06-12T04:00:00Z

The wood chips used to create her stark set came from already fallen trees and will be sent to a farm for use by an artist. Sarah Burton brings house of Alexander McQueen to New York 2022-03-15T04:00:00Z

This book, then, is a morality tale as well as a stark warning. Ian Rankin on The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde 2010-08-16T14:31:00Z

Taking his cue from Homer, this Greek choreographer thinks of time as “The Great Tamer,” which is the title of his 2017 pensive, gorgeously stark dance-theater piece. 8 Dance Performances to See in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z

It’s in stark contract to 1627, when church leaders locked the cathedral gates to keep townspeople out as plague swept through Salisbury. Organists offer soundtrack to jabs at medieval UK cathedral 2021-01-20T05:00:00Z

In both music and lyrics, “Plastic Ono Band” was a stark statement of pain, separation, vulnerability and self-reclamation after the whirlwind that had been Lennon’s life as a Beatle. Half a Century Later, John Lennon’s ‘Plastic Ono Band’ Still Hits Hard 2021-04-21T04:00:00Z

Second is the stark contrast between the developed and the developing world. 'Spillover': Deadly diseases that jump from animals to humans 2012-09-26T22:17:04Z

If you were looking for cutting-edge thoughts on Mozart, as sanctioned by the period-instrument world — breakneck tempos, stark dynamic contrasts and sudden, ritardando-free movement endings, for example — you were in the wrong place. Music Review: Mitsuko Uchida Plays Mozart at Caramoor 2010-06-27T21:49:00Z

Her 2000 memoir, “Happening,” is a stark account of her abortion in 1963 as a college student, a pivotal event that she first attempted to address in fiction, with “Cleaned Out.” Annie Ernaux’s Work Dissecting the Deeply Personal Is Awarded the Nobel 2022-10-06T04:00:00Z

Lamb stew with dried plums: Katniss' favorite food in the Capitol — a stark contrast to the starvation in her district. A-Z guide to 'The Hunger Games' 2012-03-24T01:27:25Z

Patiently, her brushes yielded minimalist geometric configurations, like visual haiku, in stark black-and-white and later in radiant colors: triangles and trapezoids, curvaceous shells, rondos and diamonds floating in a pristine white-canvas universe. Carmen Herrera, Cuban-Born Artist Who Won Fame at 89, Dies at 106 2022-02-13T05:00:00Z

The object loomed over Queer Britain’s inaugural exhibition, a stark reminder of the danger and taboo being gay represented a century ago. What Should an L.G.B.T.Q. Museum Be? Approaches Vary. 2022-08-04T04:00:00Z

Alsop tended to underplay the stark drama of the finale, too, leaving Connolly to provide the emotional weight required. Bournemouth SO/Alsop ? review 2010-12-03T22:00:00Z

The room is small and spare, with stark white walls, a 1960s office desk and gray carpeting so new the sour scent of freshly applied glue permeates the air. Public Fiction is collectively in Hammer Museum's 'Made in L.A.' 2014-06-13T04:00:00Z

On June 3, the international humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders issued a news release with a stark headline: “Resurgence of Epidemic Ebola in West Africa.” If news media had covered Ebola sooner, could latest outbreak have been contained?

The inevitable gory climax overshadows all that precedes it, though there are tireless visual flourishes, stark survival details and narrative sidetracks to distract you, and Franco is very good company. This week's new films 2011-01-08T00:06:09Z

Once the clothes fit like a second skin, the model poses in the studio for a photo against a stark, plain backdrop. How Jason Wu picks models, tweaks looks for runway 2012-02-10T20:03:12Z

In his lifetime, Clyfford Still demanded that his stark, monumental Abstract Expressionist canvases be exhibited in museum shows only in a separate gallery, and explicitly restricted institutions from lending paintings he donated. Rare Loan of Clyfford Still Paintings to Join Royal Academy Show 2016-04-12T04:00:00Z

There are a number of reasons why horror continues to sell, including the voracious appetite of teenagers for whom experiencing stark terror in a risk-free environment is the stuff of life. Perspective | ‘Get Out’ shows how genre can address serious issues. Why can’t serious drama? 2017-03-23T04:00:00Z

In her final season with the company Ms. Mazzini took her fearlessness to an especially stark place in “Tongues.” Critic?s Notebook: In the Mysteries of Everyday Movement, Multilevel Stories 2011-03-06T22:56:33Z

“She became one, through bitter suffering and the stark realization of the precariousness of her position.” An Overlooked Novel from 1935 by the Godmother of Feminist Detective Fiction 2019-11-13T05:00:00Z

It stands in stark contrast to the blitheness of the 26-page lead opinion from the Sixth Circuit decision in June upholding the mandate. Eleventh Circuit: Obamacare Strives to "Regulate [Individuals] at Every Point of Their Life" 2011-08-16T13:17:54Z

Employing stark, somewhat abstract sets and costumes that blend realistic and surreal touches, the production plumbs the teeming yet murky emotions of the opera. At Salzburg Festival, Two Bold Directors Claim Their Stages 2018-08-12T04:00:00Z

In his memoir, Northup talks candidly about the horrors he experienced, and Mr. Ridley translated them onto the page in their often stark brutality, leading to chatter about the film being “difficult.” The Carpetbagger: What the Writer Had to Edit From ‘12 Years a Slave’ 2014-01-16T23:00:12Z

In this sea of broken politics, Trump’s supporters are a stark example of the authoritarian turn in American society. The GOP’s gross Adam Sandler primary: Donald Trump, penis jokes and the pathetic state of conservatism 2016-03-09T05:00:00Z

And that’s a dichotomy that we find in the United States as well, but it’s a particularly stark contrast in these Mexican retirement havens. A better border is possible 2012-05-26T22:00:00Z

Their home, though larger than guest rooms, exemplifies the style of Island House: bare, open, stark lines, unadorned facades, a quieter glamour than what you’d find back in San Juan. The Many Faces of Puerto Rico 2015-04-03T04:00:00Z

Mirvis’s story is less stark than recent memoirs of leaving ultra-Orthodox sects; Modern Orthodoxy, by definition, allows more mingling with the outside world. Losing Her Religion 2017-12-22T05:00:00Z

Somber images of the queen sitting alone in St. George’s Chapel were a stark reminder that she was entering the twilight years of her reign, with increasing duties handed to her heir, Prince Charles. Platinum Jubilee: Queen’s reign marks 70 years of change 2022-02-03T05:00:00Z

Mike Davis, an urban theorist and historian who in stark, sometimes prescient books wrote of catastrophes faced by and awaiting humankind, and especially Los Angeles, died on Tuesday at his home in San Diego. Mike Davis, Who Wrote of Los Angeles and Catastrophe, Dies at 76 2022-10-26T04:00:00Z

Walker's campaign spokeswoman Ciara Matthews said in a statement that the governor's record will "stand in stark contrast to whoever the eventual Democratic nominee is." Gov. Walker foes to file recall petitions today 2012-01-17T11:21:00Z

Wars in Liberia, Nigeria, Afghanistan and Libya — the world's open wounds — were vocation destinations for this English photojournalist, whose pictures had the impact of stark truth stripped of political attitudinizing. Tim Hetherington: War Hero Who Shot With a Camera 2011-04-21T10:20:00Z

Over stark, sustained keyboard chords, she sings “Straight to the ER/While I bled on your car”; the driver asks, “It wasn’t mine, right?” Rosalía Issues an English Request, and 9 More New Songs 2023-01-27T05:00:00Z

They were a stark contrast to the president’s classic navy suit and the first lady’s sky blue coatdress and pumps. The Olive Green Sweatshirt Goes to Congress 2022-12-22T05:00:00Z

The drive with hairpin turns and steep drops down the Upper Fraser Canyon had stark, dramatic views of the surrounding mountains and sheer cliffs in the late afternoon sun. Canada’s grand western loop around British Columbia is prime for a road trip 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z

For all the talk of spaceships and a better tomorrow, it is an inescapably stark conclusion. Review: After 36 Years, a Malcolm X Opera Sings to the Future 2022-05-15T04:00:00Z

Now I felt the urge to return to that solitude, to recalibrate myself by again meditating on the stark landscapes that once served as backdrops for many melancholy films by Ingmar Bergman. Going Off the Grid on a Swedish Island 2015-07-10T04:00:00Z

Even the cover’s stark nature is streamlined: It’s a brilliant tomato-red color with green text spelling out the album’s name in a classic typeface that recalls a storied newspaper. "Talking Heads: 77," released 40 years ago tomorrow 2017-09-15T04:00:00Z

This is a stark, unsentimental vision of the play that argues, as Brecht did, that no individual is indispensable: Coriolanus ends up shot full of lead and conspicuously unmourned. Coriolan/us – review 2012-08-10T17:08:20Z

The style is loose, the colors stark: Castile’s white shirt, brown skin; the officer’s pink hand. Confronting the “Shocking” Virtual-Reality Artwork at the Whitney Biennial 2017-03-20T04:00:00Z

Over pastries, coffee and juice, there was occasional groaning and gnashing of teeth, as some stark gender disparities in the industry were revealed. The Carpetbagger: Wonder Woman at Sundance 2013-01-22T22:15:10Z

Squirreled away in a media lab on the campus, Dr. Smith’s team collects data that put the American movie industry’s sexism into stark, empirical relief. On Many Fronts, Women Are Fighting for Better Opportunity in Hollywood 2015-01-21T05:00:00Z

The staging is stark: a bench, a lightstrip, a line of dry earth. Rosas: En Atendant – review 2012-11-06T17:51:57Z

Even the announcement of the title, its stark black letters slammed against a blood-red background, feels like an assault. ‘Donnybrook’ Review: Fighting for Survival in the Heartland 2019-02-14T05:00:00Z

Steward’s experience stands in stark contrast to the familiar story of furtive concealment and persecution in the period before gay liberation. Samuel Steward?s Life in ?Secret Historian? 2010-07-26T00:00:00Z

Björk is depicted alone, in a stark Icelandic landscape, furiously pounding a fist against her chest. Review: Björk at Carnegie Hall, Heartbreak and Pathos 2015-03-07T05:00:00Z

It’s a stark reminder of the other behavior Tambor has been accused of over the last year, something that he, and Netflix, were trying to move past. Jeffrey Tambor: the problem with his post-#MeToo comeback 2018-05-24T04:00:00Z

The presence of legendary pulp scribbler Jim Thompson as co-screenwriter probably ensured this level of coruscating cynicism and brute realism, and the stark visuals surely hark back to Kubrick's experiences as a news photographer. The Killing: No 13 2010-10-17T10:43:00Z

The system led us to a stark choice between ending our relationship, or marriage. Family life 2011-08-19T23:05:40Z

There is periodic affirmation that giving millions of dollars to politicians gets your phone calls answered, and a few stark admissions that money gets laws made and regulations rewritten. Review: ‘Meet the Donors: Does Money Talk?’ Explores Campaign Contributors 2016-07-31T04:00:00Z

The cake was iced with a roux of milk and flour that was whipped into butter and sugar, creating a stark white, fluffy mixture called ermine or boiled-milk frosting. Red velvet cake’s path from gimmick to marketing craze 2014-05-20T04:00:00Z

But they also put the suffering implicit in the music composed there in stark relief. Music Review: ?The Music of Terezin? at 92nd Street Y 2012-01-20T23:54:05Z

After the attacks, Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg called for "more democracy, more openness and greater political participation" -- a stark contrast to American politicians' response to 9/11. The trippiest martial arts movie ever? 2011-08-27T15:01:00Z

Importantly, it also provided insight into water access inequality, which remains shockingly stark two-and-a-half decades after apartheid. How Cape Town's "Day Zero" crisis helped mobilize water conservation efforts 2023-02-24T05:00:00Z

“Black Like Us” smartly explores all this in grays, not stark black and white. ‘Black Like Us’ explores color, identity in a Seattle family 2014-02-06T22:49:54Z

Hemingway's earliest published stories are stark formal experiments. A brief survey of the short story part 34: Ernest Hemingway 2011-07-15T10:54:43Z

Mr. Cowley looked ashen against his stark ensemble, his friend Theresa McGinley recalled in a recent interview, overseeing the party from his wheelchair. Waking the Spirit of a Disco Innovator 2016-08-05T04:00:00Z

It’s a stark difference with another kind of mother entirely: the heinous Brenda Last in Evelyn Waugh’s A Handful of Dust. From Don't Look Now to The Child in Time: why do we crave stories of lost children? 2017-09-21T04:00:00Z

After last year’s stark exhibition of Rei Kawakubo’s irregular apparel, the Met Costume Institute is back in blockbuster mode with this three-part blowout on the influence of Catholicism on haute couture of the past century. 29 Art Exhibitions to View in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-08-02T04:00:00Z

Her voice is unexpectedly soft and controlled, in stark contrast to the harsh subject matter of much of her work. For Karen Finley, Jackie O. is for outrage in 'The Jackie Look' 2015-11-21T05:00:00Z

It was praised in some quarters as groundbreaking and criticized in others as reductive, Pollyannaish and accommodationist — condemned, in short, for glossing over the stark realities of life that black Americans faced daily. Diahann Carroll, Actress Who Broke Barriers With ‘Julia,’ Dies at 84 2019-10-04T04:00:00Z

With stark strobe lights flashing and Swim's artwork projected in multicoloured hues and crazy patterns on a creased white backdrop, the likes of Hannibal and Lalibela take on a even more hypnotic feel. Caribou ? review 2011-02-24T18:12:57Z

McGinley's images of festival revellers – wild, colourful and rapturous – contained a sense of abandonment in stark contrast to the traditional Korean photography on show elsewhere. Red wine and doughnuts at the Daegu Photo Biennale, South Korea 2012-10-29T10:00:00Z

We have this really stark black piece that she made for us that I can’t really describe. For Questlove, ‘Soul Train’ Is His Happy Place 2020-03-03T05:00:00Z

It's a brave move, creating a strangely affecting, stark piece of music. Christine Tobin weaves a new Tapestry 2010-06-24T22:30:00Z

The atrocities we have seen in Aleppo this week serve as a stark reminder of why people are fleeing; that they should have to risk their lives trying to reach sanctuary is an unnecessary cruelty. Guardian and Observer readers raise over £500,000 for child refugees 2016-12-16T05:00:00Z

The most striking and unusual feature of the 6AM design is the stark contrast it sets up between its vertical and horizontal sections. A big Herzog & de Meuron design for the Arts District bets that L.A. will get comfortable with density 2016-09-23T04:00:00Z

Here he adds just one more instrument, the piano of Mr. Pilc, who works in splashes of stark color and pushes a centrifugal momentum. The Playlist: Mavis Staples Warns of Deadly Force, and 9 More New Songs 2017-10-13T04:00:00Z

Our current health crisis is a stark reminder that life is fragile and unpredictable. Perspective | Face it: This is a good time to make a will 2020-05-04T04:00:00Z

Smith sets the territory by looking at the stark difference between Mandela's account of his father, a Thembu noble and a colonially appointed headman, and the documentary evidence provided by the colonial archive. Young Mandela by David James Smith 2010-06-18T23:15:00Z

The colors, as usual here, were dark and stark, with the only bright moments coming from a few flashes of red and a salmon-colored dress made of a glazed tweed and tulle. Calvin Klein goes easy on the shape and the eyes 2012-02-16T22:25:09Z

The move is a stark departure from the last time Universal tried rebooting its family of movie monsters, just three years ago. There’s No Dark Universe Anymore, Just One Monster After Another 2020-02-27T05:00:00Z

The retelling of a James story needs to be this stark. In search of a very British, and rural, kind of horror 2013-02-05T11:33:50Z

But this album, Mr. West’s fifth, is a reminder of how single-minded he is and how musically gifted; it’s easily his most florid record, and also, oddly, one of his most stark. The Purpler the Bruise, the Sweeter the Song 2010-12-17T14:43:11Z

“There’s nowhere where the stark difference between winners and losers is more clear,” Axe tells Orrin. ‘Billions’ Season 2 Premiere: Neanderthals 2017-02-10T05:00:00Z

The colors on Pahvo are especially bright, to visually convey a place of harmony and to provide stark contrast to the dark aesthetics of the Discovery and Klingon ships. ‘Star Trek: Discovery’ Season 1, Episode 8: A Little Harmony 2017-11-06T05:00:00Z

He is more than the flashpoint and central figure of a stark racial drama, set in America’s most divided city, the capital of image and illusion. O.J. Simpson, American icon: Why the football star turned accused killer is one of the 20th century’s most important cultural figures 2016-06-11T04:00:00Z

The ambiguity and potential darkness certainly make it a stark departure, Sloan said. Red snow? A most unexpected modern standard for the holidays 2021-12-20T05:00:00Z

There’s a stark difference between this and the group’s previous releases, despite the buoyant drift of “Cuernavaca” or the staccato syncopations of “Apsara.” Playlist : New Music From Baroness, Rhoda Vincent, Shintaro Sakamoto 2012-07-20T17:18:02Z

Yet it’s never been as stark as now, with the committee investigating last year’s Capitol insurrection seeking his testimony. Hannity, Fox face ethical issues over Trump text revelations 2022-01-05T05:00:00Z

Others noted a stark gender imbalance in this year’s nonfiction long list, which had nine male writers and just one woman, the New Yorker cartoonist Roz Chast. National Book Award Goes to Phil Klay for His Short Story Collection 2014-11-19T05:00:00Z

Hers is a universe of vivid colors and stark imagery, whose nonhuman characters resonate humanity. The Best of New Sci-Fi and Fantasy, From an Intergalactic Love Story to New York City Under Water 2017-03-21T04:00:00Z

The group’s drawings and models challenged modernist architecture, which emphasized function and often produced stark buildings devoid of ornamentation and dominated by concrete and metal. Walter Pichler, Architect and Reclusive Artist, Dies at 75 2012-07-29T01:44:32Z

Q: Reading “Gemini,” I noted that the stark difference between medical care in rural and urban areas is a theme, as it was in “Healer.” Q&A: Author and anesthesiologist Carol Cassella 2014-03-07T19:47:14Z

But the building’s stark barrackslike structure can quickly bring to mind the Holocaust or the Soviet Gulag. Louise Bourgeois, Celebrated Sculptor, Unsung Painter 2022-06-01T04:00:00Z

Ahead of the show, she said she was influenced by the stark blacks and whites of the city's churches and piazzas. Designers in New York keeping it simple with black and white 2013-09-08T22:59:00Z

The shifts between dark and light are stark. Harsh land and raw, maddening emotion test 'The Homesman' 2014-11-13T05:00:00Z

Duncanson's composition rhymes the stark foreground hills with pale but radiant mountains disappearing off into the remote distance. Huntington's new gallery rooms show promise 2014-07-19T04:00:00Z

A federal judge who unsealed a portion of Cosby’s deposition noted the “stark contrast” between the contents of the court file and Cosby holding himself out as “a public moralist.” Three years and 60 accusers later, Bill Cosby’s trial begins. But only one woman will decide his fate. 2017-05-20T04:00:00Z

It's this clash of Super-8 US fantasy with stark English reality that makes The English Riviera a triumph. Feels like Devon 2011-04-01T23:01:00Z

The music behind him is stark, almost atonal — it’s less a celebration than an incantation. Review: ASAP Rocky Returns to a Haze in ‘At.Long.Last.ASAP’ 2015-05-27T04:00:00Z

The exhibition, featuring stark black-and-white photographs of King and Kennedy as well as faded ephemera, reveals the various ways in which the lives of these two influential figures were juxtaposed. King and Kennedy Weren’t Friends, but They Were Bound by History 2018-04-04T04:00:00Z

On Friday, she performed wearing a gown in the stark blue and yellow of the Ukrainian flag. Review: At the Philharmonic, a Conductor Argues With Passion 2023-01-22T05:00:00Z

Some are stark and chilling: an old water fountain with a sign above it saying “white” next to a toilet, placed at drinking-fountain height, with a sign reading “colored.” Palm Springs beyond the poolside: lonesome hikes, alien-inspired architecture and a poignant art museum 2022-01-14T05:00:00Z

It’s one of the central questions in this debut novel of love and class in contemporary Haiti, in which momentum emerges from the stark demands of a life lived amid capricious, grinding poverty. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-09-17T04:00:00Z

But more potent, I think, is the stark warning they offer the unpublished writer about the lack of peace that success – or rather, the attempts at its sustainment – can bring. The strange allure of Tennessee Williams's Notebooks 2011-03-25T11:20:11Z

Taking a role as couture architect rather than decorator, Mr. Simons has shown ball-gown skirts, albeit with stark white blouses, elegant day dresses in paisley patterns and splashes of Picasso. Dior Turns to Raf Simons 2012-04-09T16:27:12Z

In stark contrast to Mike’s whirling theatrics, Adam plods down the stage with little finesse. Magic Mike: The Sexy, Sad Lies We Tell Ourselves 2012-06-28T20:15:18Z

The video was as compelling as it was stark. Taliban's video of Bowe Bergdahl handover is a vivid reminder of war 2014-06-05T04:00:00Z

Presenting three images – of chips, a steak and a burger – against stark white backdrops, there is only one thing missing. Sauce material: how Mad Men wrote the new Heinz ads 2017-03-14T04:00:00Z

Formerly a World War II internment camp for Japanese-Americans, this deserted landscape in the Owens Valley was a stark reminder of the stories we often choose to forget. 10 Months, 45 National Parks, 11 Rules 2016-06-28T04:00:00Z

Trump is a stark illustration of why so few wealthy malefactors are held accountable. Why We Let White-Collar Criminals Get Away With Their Crimes 2020-09-29T04:00:00Z

This often requires stark sacrifices: He essentially schedules the worst of his symptoms. A Pianist Adapts to Life With Parkinson’s Disease 2023-08-07T04:00:00Z

But awards season puts these unsolvable issues in a stark light. The Thorny Ethics of the Oscars 2016-12-21T05:00:00Z

On the tune that started it all, “Play It Right,” Ms. Meath’s vocals are multitracked in emulation of the arrestingly stark Mountain Man sound, and the electronics gingerly frame them. New Releases From Conor Oberst and Brantley Gilbert 2014-05-19T04:00:00Z

The stark reality of that experience forced him to question his own academic efforts, and to begin to venture outside his comfort zone of sports. Perspective | My dilemma as a college essay coach: How to walk the fine line between helping and cheating 2019-03-15T04:00:00Z

In recent years her middle range has gained in substance, throwing her ethereal high notes into starker relief. Music Review: Judy Collins at Caf? Carlyle: Folk Days to 9/11 2010-05-05T22:44:00Z

The film was too stark and intense to win large audiences, but DiCaprio recognized it as a challenging platform for his talents, and delivered a definitive portrait of scary, self-destructive drug abuse. Leonardo DiCaprio's 10 best movie roles 2010-07-28T22:28:00Z

Tower Hamlets Mayor Luthur Rahman said the local authority faced a "stark choice" at a time of economic weakness and government austerity. Danny Boyle opposes plan to sell Moore sculpture 2012-11-05T15:46:04Z

With the stark power of myth, this political allegory evolves into an argument for artistic freedom. New & Noteworthy, From Beautiful Crime to Essays on Identity 2020-02-18T05:00:00Z

Badura-Skoda catches Mozart’s frustrated rage in the stark motifs and hammering dissonances in the first movement of the Sonata No. 15 in F Major. What Paul Badura-Skoda Did for Classical Piano 2019-09-30T04:00:00Z

It was a deeply chastened and somber Blagojevich who appeared in court Tuesday, a stark contrast to the defendant who entered and left court with a swagger during his two criminal trials. Hard time looking likely for Blagojevich 2011-12-07T03:48:00Z

Marhoul's style, which is often stark, and often employs silence — there is minimal dialogue throughout the film — allows viewers to engage with the action as this storyline unfolds. "The Painted Bird" is a brutal masterpiece depicting the horrors and inhumanity of war 2020-07-17T04:00:00Z

Many of the designer runways seemed more of the same - stark stages, thumping music and audiences distracted by their electronic gadgets - but the Louis Vuitton fall catwalk in Paris commanded attention. 2012 styles that made our heads turn 2012-12-12T20:31:05Z

But there are also four terracotta reliefs cast from the gallery windows, faintly pink, but terribly stark. Rachel Whiteread: 'I couldn't say no. It felt right to do this one' – interview 2012-07-07T19:19:01Z

The statistics are stark, but Nottage wanted to know the people behind the statistics and she has built a meaty — and acutely politically relevant — drama around what she learned. Who are these Trump voters? For a thoughtful portrait, turn to playwright Lynn Nottage's 'Sweat' 2016-11-09T05:00:00Z

For those of us without a greenhouse or sunroom, the choice is stark. The banana plant went gangbusters. Now what? 2018-10-16T04:00:00Z

All of these tragedies and obstacles are drawn with stark realism and deep emotional resonance. Review | Lily King’s ‘Writers & Lovers’ delivers pure joy 2020-03-04T05:00:00Z

And Ms. Hennies’s “Loss,” stark and disorienting, is included on a new album from Judith Hamann, “Music for Cello and Humming,” to be released Oct. Sharing an Intimate Musical Vision 2020-10-15T04:00:00Z

There is a moment when, stark naked, she saunters across the screen with a knowing and comical look on her face. David Thomson on Annette Bening 2010-10-27T22:40:00Z

The stats are stark: survival chances drop by around 10% with each minute without a shock to the heart, either by CPR or a defibrillator. How to save a life – first-aid advice you’ll actually remember 2017-03-06T05:00:00Z

But there's just something about blood on the snow, the stark contrast of still, natural beauty and violence, bright twinkling lights and cold chills. Deck the halls with films of horror 2021-12-21T05:00:00Z

The pictures are heart-rending and the prose is stark as the author begins his schooling in the shadow of guard towers. Review | George Takei has talked about his family’s internment before. But never quite like this. 2019-07-11T04:00:00Z

The study, based on data from 65 million children in 193 countries, revealed a 20cm difference between the tallest and shortest nations, driven by stark differences in childhood nutrition and living conditions, the researchers report. Children in UK lag behind international counterparts in healthy development 2020-11-05T05:00:00Z

She tells her tale while stark naked and splay-legged, nattering on about a goofy mishap that never happened while giving her lover the full Penthouse centerfold view. How Cinemax's "Jett" does nudity — and plenty of it — right 2019-06-20T04:00:00Z

The difference is even more stark among young white men, with a whopping 65 percent denying the existence of sexist discrimination. Teen gender gap persists: Survey shows boys still hold sexist attitudes 2018-09-13T04:00:00Z

Meanwhile, Ms. Destri and her dancers are constantly reminded of the stark realities of life in Brazil. Companhia Urbana de Dança Reflects Brazil’s Complexities 2014-08-09T04:00:00Z

This stark and cogent painting, named after a Gang of Four lyric, is frozen funk-punk. Review | In the galleries: Dark hues that paint unsettling portents 2017-06-15T04:00:00Z

Ms. Carlile called it a “total, stark reversal of the whole concept of the song.” How Brandi Carlile Got Adele and Obama for a Benefit Album 2017-05-03T04:00:00Z

But “Psappha” shook the nascent field with its tension between flexible instrumentation and rigorous beat, between stark rhythms and kaleidoscopic colors. The ‘Philosopher King’ of Percussion Starts His Next Chapter 2022-05-23T04:00:00Z

Many prefer muted memorials such as Kollwitz's statues, or the graveyard-like Holocaust memorial in Berlin, for their stark simplicity that speaks movingly without words. 'Grieving Parents' statues wend way across Europe for war dead 2014-06-29T04:00:00Z

It’s a reflection of the stark seriousness he sees in other narratives, and an element that distinguishes the Amazon series from earlier incarnations of “The Tick.” Never-Ending Superheroes: Here Come the Defenders and the Tick 2017-08-11T04:00:00Z

The book opens with a stark statement: “One problem with gentrification is that it always gets worse,” Sycamore writes, leaving the rest of the page blank. In a Gentrifying Seattle, a Queer Activist Works to Blur Borders 2020-11-24T05:00:00Z

In her writing, Ms. Minco described the stark crisis of Jewish life in the Netherlands during World War II, based on her own experiences. Marga Minco, Who Chronicled Jewish Life in Wartime, Dies at 103 2023-07-15T04:00:00Z

Color plays a huge role in the stark film, full of shadows and crosses, as do reenactments. "Our Father" filmmaker's ode to "Handmaid's Tale" as an IVF "horror story" of consent 2022-05-22T04:00:00Z

That act, set on a stark precipice overlooking the sea, is the prettiest in the show, and also the dullest. Music Review: ?Tosca? at the Metropolitan Opera - Review 2012-01-12T23:36:27Z

Through his nuanced, often minimal use of lighting on the set, he meticulously conjured the stark contrast of lights and darks on the screen that he and his directors often sought. Bruce Surtees, Oscar-Nominated Cinematographer, Dies at 74 2012-02-29T03:57:26Z

Now that she works in the solo form, Eiko’s vulnerability as a stark, lonely figure is even more intense. Eiko: A Dancer’s Urgent Body in a Sacred Space 2017-03-07T05:00:00Z

The film’s stark, faceless figures and a town’s bold lines and misty lighting make “Feral” dreamlike. ‘Oscar Nominated Short Films 2014’: a showcase of talent 2014-01-30T20:36:07Z

Sanaz Mazinani's installation of embossed stealth bomber plane formations on handmade white paper is delicate and flowery — a stark contrast to the colorful background it's hung against, a kaleidoscopic view of Iranian mosque tile work. Shulamit Nazarian's Venice gallery aims to 'build bridges' 2014-10-01T04:00:00Z

Cultural connection or disconnect: The most obvious disconnect was the stark contrast between living in the wild for a week and the lives we left at home. What a Trip: Merrily down the Yampa River

Jesús Díaz’s audaciously expressionistic lighting sometimes pins characters in stark geometric beams on the stark blond-wood set. Review | Big ideas anchor ‘Reykjavik’ and ‘The Old Man, the Youth, and the Sea’ 2019-02-18T05:00:00Z

The design esthetic is clean and uncluttered, even stark. A Shakespeare tale with honesty and heart 2016-02-04T05:00:00Z

It’s a really stark inequality in the system. Orange is the New Black” author: Prison wastes time, human potential and money 2013-09-06T23:00:00Z

At the time of the outburst, Siev did in fact live there: the place in question being Bad Axe, Mich., a small town with a stark political divide. ‘Bad Axe’ Review: A Pandemic Family Portrait 2022-11-17T05:00:00Z

Dean prefaced the concert with his own new orchestration of the slow movement of the first Razumovsky Quartet, which, even with the subtle addition of woodwind, still sounded like a stark descent into unconsolable despair. Northern Sinfonia/Dean – review 2013-05-12T13:55:17Z

There was nothing to see for miles but sage-covered high desert, a landscape of stark beauty and eerie desolation. Downward spiral: how addiction decimated a Wyoming family 2017-02-23T05:00:00Z

The illustrations are quite stark but are in keeping with the book's tone and message. I have the right to be a child by Alain Serres, Aurelia Fronty and Sarah Ardizzone - review 2012-11-26T12:00:00Z

Or that the building, a stark contrast to the city’s Buddhist temples, gorgeous gardens and mild-mannered monks, serves as headquarters for Akiko Fukai, Japan’s leading fashion historian. Akiko Fukai Curates History at the Kyoto Costume Institute 2012-02-22T18:06:57Z

She also explained to her client in stark terms what she hoped to accomplish: “The mission was to bring down Bill O’Reilly.” ‘The mission was to bring down Bill O’Reilly’: The final days of a Fox News superstar 2017-04-21T04:00:00Z

The letters showed how the college had ignored a series of stark warnings about Layfield's sexual past, prompting the resignation of two tutors. One-to-one music tuition 'may be abolished' 2013-03-01T22:01:01Z

The mezzo-soprano Sarah Connolly was singing “By a Bierside,” a stark reflection on death written in the World War I trenches by Ivor Gurney, when a tendril of hair fell into her face. Music Review: A Mezzo Keeps It Simple, and Makes It Profound 2011-04-15T21:19:40Z

It's not like I intentionally went the other way on this album toward something more stark. The world is one big art project for Bat for Lashes 2013-08-22T15:54:00Z

But it played out against the backdrop of the Biafran war, with a stark clarity that automatically gave it gravitas. Books of The Times: ‘Americanha,’ by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 2013-05-19T20:26:59Z

For now, the sprawling space feels raw and unmanaged, a stark contrast to styled, branded tourist destinations. Meet the latest tourist attractions: Abandoned factories 2018-03-08T05:00:00Z

The stark compositions and the wilds of nature contribute to this unusually visceral rendering of a warlord’s descent into madness. Movie Listings for Feb. 26-Mar. 3 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z

The first song, “Sometimes the Moon Sat in the Well at Night,” followed a stark introductory set of piano chords with a vocal line dotted with exotic touches: dusky harmonies and curlicues of ornamentation. Music in Review: Performances by Sasha Cooke, Escher String Quartet and Ensemble Signal 2015-03-16T04:00:00Z

America revealed its heart as divided, its future headed backward toward a stark segregation of ideals. "They got Daddy": Reckoning with my grandfather's kidnapping, racial terror and our family's trauma 2023-01-02T05:00:00Z

He realized there was already an answer in some of the essays and other writing by his father, Norman Mailer, including stark warnings about the fragility of democracy and the threat of political violence. Was Norman Mailer Canceled? His Publishers Say No. 2022-01-04T05:00:00Z

Variety's Guy Lodge, who said Ramsay may be the world's "greatest working filmmaker", called her new film "astonishing ... a stark, sinewy, slashed-to-the-bone hitman thriller far more concerned with the man than the hit". Joaquin Phoenix bludgeons Cannes with Lynne Ramsay hit man thriller 2017-05-27T04:00:00Z

It makes such a stark contrast to so much American independent cinema, less in terms of budget and production scale than in its towering ambition toward that most fascinating subject: another human being. Arts & Leisure: Film Favorites of A. O. Scott and Manohla Dargis in 2011 2011-12-14T13:13:18Z

But just as large a number are personal works, inspired by the intricate detail and stark boldness of design possible in this medium. Davidson Galleries’ ‘Wood Engraving Invitational’ 2014-01-16T21:48:16Z

They screened the scenes in standard 24 frames per second format, in stark contrast to the 48 frames per second experiment Jackson prepared for the CinemaCon industry convention back in April. The Hobbit's 12 minutes of frame at Comic-Con 2012 2012-07-16T10:39:23Z

In this sense, glasnost under Gorbachev accelerated, rather than initiated, a stark view of Soviet reality. 'There are no different truths': the last years of Soviet cinema 2018-09-25T04:00:00Z

The effect is startlingly beautiful, a quick wash of theatrical effect that makes its previous absence all the more stark. Dance Review: ?The Work The Work? by Fitzgerald & Stapleton 2010-05-24T21:26:00Z

As Mr. Brocka plays with his framing, going from tight to wide, putting the scene’s combustibility into stark visual terms, he transforms this one family into a pungent city. Review: In ‘Insiang,’ a Filipino Woman Suffers in the Slums 2015-10-27T04:00:00Z

The nature poems such as Crowcolour, Crow Goes Hunting and Owl's Song are stark, dark, ferocious and sometimes brutal but definitely impressive. Crow: From the Life and Songs of the Crow by Ted Hughes ? review 2011-03-21T11:00:00Z

The survey's disheartening findings show a stark contrast to women in politics, where a record number of women were elected to Congress in 2018. #MeToo, but so what? Percentage of women directing top films dropped in 2018 2019-01-03T05:00:00Z

That was a stark contrast to the women's show, where Gaultier crowned Pejic with the prized piece in the women's wear collection: a couture bride's dress. Gender-bending model pushes limits of the runway 2012-02-09T07:48:09Z

In stark contrast to Hollywood’s Oscars season, many of the directing awards went to women. ‘Minari,’ ‘Boys State’ win top honors at Sundance 2020-02-02T05:00:00Z

Everything seems all-glorious, but I’m sure the underbelly was in stark contrast. Brooke Shields: 'I'm such an addict of Downton Abbey' 2020-05-19T04:00:00Z

The book explains the futuristic, near-apocalyptic setting of “Mindwheel,” freeing the game to open swiftly, with the player lying “face up on a table in the stark laboratory.” When Robert Pinsky Wrote a Video Game 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z

I asked about how he would domesticate the stark room in which we were sitting on the lumpy, itchy armchairs. 'America's top satirist' 2010-09-04T23:02:00Z

In the aftermath of the Arab spring and the French intervention in Mali, the film provides a stark warning of the dangers of supporting benevolent dictators. Burkina Faso stages Africa's film festival with a conscience 2013-03-01T11:24:52Z

Much of the new work is oddly stark, raw and hermetic. Siah Armajani: ‘The Tomb Series’ 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z

A justly famous photograph of Wall Street, from 1915, captured not the raw hustle of the city but the stark embrasures of the Morgan Bank, whose sinister geometry dwarfs the few scattered commuters beneath. Paul Strand’s Sense of Things 2016-04-15T04:00:00Z

With this collection of stark yet idiosyncratic images, photography was no longer just an objective representation of our world but an artist’s experience of it. Following in Robert Frank’s footsteps 2015-08-18T04:00:00Z

He painted a stark portrait of a survival-of-the-fittest mentality that is reshaping the television industry, particularly as competition from Internet outlets intensifies. Dish Network could drop CNN from lineup for good 2014-11-05T05:00:00Z

The conversation flowed easily, a stark difference from past online dates. They met in person, the old-fashioned way. Then he left his number for him on a scrap of paper. 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z

Clinton, in stark contrast, sent surrogates instead of showing up herself. How Conservatives Bet Big on Wisconsin and Won 2018-07-11T04:00:00Z

For some hosts, Mrs. Clinton’s appearance threw President Trump’s tenure into stark relief. Hillary Clinton Returns, and Late Night Finds Her ‘Unpresidential’ 2017-05-03T04:00:00Z

There’s a stark difference between depressive rumination — like replaying an ongoing disagreement with our spouse on a loop — and pleasant daydreaming, or letting our minds drift freely. Focus is important to productivity. But it’s daydreaming that makes us happy. 2021-08-02T04:00:00Z

Returning from countries where they chronicled the effects of globalization, six Metro Collective photographers chose a stark title for their Leica store show: “My Tears Will Stain.” Review | In the galleries: Roving photographers capture street scenes around the world 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z

He became friends with Evans, whose stark images of weathered buildings and haggard farm families were a lasting visual influence. William Christenberry, artist of a crumbling, memory-haunted South, dies at 80 2016-11-29T05:00:00Z

It's a stark contrast to the enthusiastic girl she was at the beginning of the series, someone who is bubbling with crushes and just coming into herself. HBO's Swedish import "Beartown" is a chilling interrogation of the power we give young, athletic men 2021-02-22T05:00:00Z

It was in stark contrast to last weekend's chaotic hotel scene of photographers, police, paramedics and fans. Loss amid normalcy at hotel where Whitney died 2012-02-19T02:16:03Z

The last two years, maybe the last six years, maybe more, have emphasized the stark divisions in American life, isolating us in our individual experiences of suffering and perceived injustice. ‘Into the Woods’ Review: Some Enchanted Evening 2022-05-06T04:00:00Z

At Gravensteen, the medieval castle that was home to the powerful counts of Flanders, an audio tour by a local comedian brings stark privies and dungeons to life. The adoration of Ghent: art, history and flavours in Flanders 2020-02-23T05:00:00Z

The new version, which opened on Tuesday, does feel smaller — its themes starker, its concession to fandom more blatant. Review: ‘Harry Potter’ Back Onstage, Streamlined and Still Magical 2021-12-07T05:00:00Z

This was a stark departure from the quaint old notion that campaign staff members should stay in the background. Symone Sanders Bet on Biden, and Herself 2020-07-03T04:00:00Z

Though Lawrence found the city “all bibs and bobs ... rather bare, rather stark,” we were with Frieda. Lawrence of Sardinia 2014-07-11T04:00:00Z

The Little San Bernardino, Santa Rosa and San Jacinto mountains around us provided a stark contrast, like giant hands cupping our playground. Beyond the green in Palm Springs: The desert is Coachella Valley’s true oasis 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z

In the sequel the pair are reunited in short, bittersweet and tender hallucinations – stark counterpoints to the relentless blood, guts and grime of the rest of the game. Game on: The Darkness II 2012-02-09T20:59:02Z

It is racked with mostly bare arrangements and a stark, heartfelt vocal delivery that provides the stunning balm to bind this unsettling beauty together. March's best music from across the MAP 2013-04-02T15:55:27Z

Both producers said they felt the gender imbalance was most stark when it came to directors. Brooklyn producers: 'A lot of the untold stories are female' 2016-02-27T05:00:00Z

Those views are in stark contrast to those held by German politicians. Furor Over Documenta Highlights a Widening Chasm in Germany 2022-08-06T04:00:00Z

Directors Michael Govier and Will McCormack reflect on the unfortunately relevant issue of school shootings and use their stark, minimalist animation style to illustrate this family's story of grief. How to watch the Oscar-nominated animated shorts, from cuddly critters to the anxiety-ridden 2021-04-17T04:00:00Z

The band still works with a heat-blasted byproduct of garage rock, hard rock and boogie, with riffs both stark and heavy gauge. Critics? Choice: New CDs by the Dead Weather, Michael Bolton, Zs 2010-05-09T21:44:00Z

The finale is all sunshine and bounciness, a carefree country dance that provided a stark contrast to the music that followed. Seattle Chamber Music Society Summer Festival presents concert of darkness, light 2011-07-28T19:25:04Z

This approach is in stark contrast to the feature film from writer and director Roland Emmerich, "Stonewall," which opens Sept. 25. 'Hit the Wall' returns to the spark of the LGBT rights movement 2015-09-03T04:00:00Z

Ferrante’s characters are astonished by the stark contrast in daily life for richer folk, the orderly manner of things compared with the menacing chaos of the impoverished neighbourhoods. Elena Ferrante's Naples – a photo essay 2017-11-07T05:00:00Z

It is not a friendly looking facade, but it is beautiful in its stark blacks and whites punctuated by curtains of live bamboo. Explorer: Three Designers, Three Milan Hotels 2012-02-17T20:39:57Z

It does throw one thing into stark relief, though: how vital and gorgeous the rest of this production is. Review: ‘The Maids’ in Puerto Rico, With Shifts in Power and Gender 2016-10-17T04:00:00Z

Drake prefers the stark dubstep-soul of producers James Blake and The xx. Drake, 'Take Care,' dubstep and feminine energy 2011-12-14T21:48:15Z

It was gone, reduced to a simple, stark, short cut. Tom Brady Cuts His Hair: Why? 2011-10-05T23:21:51Z

That often means stark white galleries without windows, lofty ceilings and overhead pinprick spotlights that help draw out shapes and shadows that morph as the light changes throughout the day. Descanso Gardens' 'Elemental' exhibition looks at art in different light 2015-02-14T05:00:00Z

Despite its unflinching portrayal of Canadian law enforcement, “Three Pines” has won praise from some Québécois police officers, who have commended its stark realism. ‘Three Pines,’ Based on Louise Penny Books, Tackles Indigenous Suffering 2023-01-03T05:00:00Z

Taking up to five hours to assemble, it’s a vision influenced heavily by horror films, Japanese manga cartoons and science fiction: a stark departure from the typical Insta-fare of designer clothes and beauty products. Latte Art Begone! Here Come the Bold Freaks of Instagram 2018-08-10T04:00:00Z

Also the variations were performed by groups, rather than in the stark isolation of the original. Martha Graham at VPAC: Dance as bridge from past to future 2015-04-21T04:00:00Z

At this point in the season, the tensions between the two gangs — Red’s family and Vee’s black girls — are making things feel stark around the Litch. 'Orange Is the New Black' Recap: Is Anyone Trustworthy Around Here? 2014-07-07T04:00:00Z

There is a simple reality to their depiction, a stark revelation of human facts. Why Rodin's The Kiss was made for Margate 2012-05-28T13:38:52Z

While men have been hanging back for years, their current scarcity, at a time overall Broadway attendance is down, is particularly stark. Dude drought on Broadway scares producers, kills plays 2014-03-30T00:45:29Z

Though the play may disturb some with its stark expressions of racism and anti-Semitism, the action is absorbing and well-paced, directed with an expert hand by Gregory Mosher. Starry cast is smooth in 'Championship Season' 2011-03-07T03:11:09Z

There’s a futurist slant to its stride, no less on several jazz standards than on Mr. Iyer’s darkly ruminative compositions, which flesh out stark rhythmic ideas with a deep, gathering intrigue. The Best Albums of 2015 2015-12-09T05:00:00Z

In the swirl of imagery, our shadows make stark and obtrusive voids, while our bodies, their contours dissolving amid the projections, feel almost invisible. 'Diana Thater: The Sympathetic Imagination' at LACMA stuns the senses 2015-12-09T05:00:00Z

Headlines, even on the more gossip-friendly sites, were mostly friendly, in stark contrast to a decade ago when tabloids thrived off of Spears' public breakdown. From Britney Spears to Taraji P. Henson, celebrities are being more open about mental health 2019-04-04T04:00:00Z

There will also be examples of work by Richard Avedon and Robert Mapplethorpe, who used stark, blank backgrounds, and by photographers like Thomas Demand who construct architectural sets within their studios. Inside Art: A Warhol Is Said to Be Bought by a Walton 2013-12-05T21:27:16Z

But, as he gently hinted – and as I am about to put in far starker terms – there is another way to read that information. Bleeding art: where have all the British philanthropists gone? 2013-07-16T15:47:26Z

"Nobody's Smiling" weaves together bleak but thoughtful narratives of violence, drugs and street life — a stark difference from the uplifting spirit of "Glory." Grammys 2015: Common's' 'Nobody's Smiling' deserves rap album honor 2015-02-03T05:00:00Z

“The only way it’s going to get better is if we face the harsh, stark, sobering, actually terrifying realities ahead of us — and act on them.” John Luther Adams, Praying for the Earth in Music 2023-03-29T04:00:00Z

But he says he was impressed by Baitz’s impressive, “honest to goodness comedy” in which “comedy and menace work together to make clear the stark reality that’s dauntingly upon us.” Essential Arts & Culture: A wondrous Hedwig, Renaissance music remade, Boyle Heights gallery crimes 2016-11-04T04:00:00Z

Doing so often requires a stark choice between jobs essential to the family’s solvency or adequate supervision of the young. When you can’t afford your kids 2012-07-16T13:30:00Z

His speculative future is one of stark inequality, replicating the dominant vision of 20th century popular culture. "Cowboy Bebop" is an off-key adaptation that captures the jazzy color but not soul of the original 2021-11-20T05:00:00Z

I had read its astute retelling of Columbus’ arrival, and it was in stark contrast to what had been taught in my fairly-progressive New York City public school. It’s 1492 all over again: Police arrest Dakota Access Pipeline protestors on Indigenous Peoples’ Day 2016-10-10T04:00:00Z

Mr. Loy’s minimal production played out on a stark white set, but the direction was thoughtful and robust. It’s (Almost) Business as Usual at the Salzburg Festival 2020-08-05T04:00:00Z

Publications are running aerial photos of various celebrity properties, the emerald lawns in stark contrast to their parched surroundings. Moronic irrigation: LA’s new turf war against its sprinkler-happy celebrities 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z

Sometimes those were equally stark: “Skip Divided” used just a drumbeat below and a vaguely Arabic melodica line above Mr. Yorke’s chanted lyrics. Music Review: Thom Yorke of Radiohead Brings Atoms for Peace to Roseland 2010-04-06T22:10:00Z

The director, David Bar Katz, creatively breaks up the stage, using stark lighting to help clarify shifts in time and place, but transitions between reporting work and home life remain muddy. | 'The Wood' : ?The Wood,? at Rattlestick Playwrights Theater - Review 2011-09-18T22:19:01Z

Its layers of rising figures in ostinato patterns, quickly changing meters, percussive passages of nearly breezy swing feel, along with others possessed of stark calamity, call to mind elements of musical history in unexpected ways. ‘It’s Anthony’s Time’: A Composer Gets His Due 2022-05-12T04:00:00Z

They live in Satellite City, a modern development dominated by stark, brightly colored towers. Review: In ‘Museo,’ Two Slackers Pull Off a Daring Heist 2018-09-13T04:00:00Z

Now Mr. Serra is pushing the Metropolitan Museum of Art to new extremes, with a stark, sometimes compelling, sometimes off-putting retrospective of his drawings. Art Review: Sketches From the Man Of Steel 2011-04-14T22:01:21Z

Burton presented her work on a stark set — essentially a long runway constructed of humble wood. Perspective | Fashion commits many sins. It’s trying to redeem itself. 2019-10-02T04:00:00Z

The goal is to create a stark backdrop over which the dancers can emote without interference, a verdant field that’s actually bare. New Music: A Great Big World and Linnea Olsson Release Albums 2014-01-20T23:07:13Z

Beneath the lyrics, stark piano notes cut right to the bone. Jeff Tweedy of Wilco and son Spencer perform songs from 'Sukierae' 2015-03-21T04:00:00Z

While many noted that Drew took on hard cases, others rendered stark judgment. McCready’s Death Renews Questions for Dr. Drew 2013-02-20T15:29:54Z

There, a stark plywood coffin and several intense drawings of a woman on her deathbed bring the cycle to a close. 2010-02-12T23:56:00Z

This unnerving authenticity is partly testament to Mr. Driver’s ability to tuck one performance inside another, but it also testifies to a stark and discomfiting truth. Review: In ‘BlacKkKlansman,’ Spike Lee Journeys Into White America’s Heart of Darkness 2018-08-09T04:00:00Z

Your stark choice is to either accept this relationship as it is, or to leave the relationship because it is not what you want. Perspective | Ask Amy: Gift-giving imbalance causes holiday stress 2017-12-07T05:00:00Z

It was the starkest reminder that we were nowhere near a factory farm. The Italian Winemakers’ Cult 2016-10-25T04:00:00Z

Brown’s photos are mostly high-contrast, but the stark black outlines are sometimes softened by the pink, yellow or purple of cherry, dogwood or wisteria. In the galleries: Many ways to express ‘Light & Movement’ 2016-12-29T05:00:00Z

It’s one of many films offering viewers a way to process our past and present, all of them valuable despite stark differences in taste, tone and temperament. Perspective | ‘Green Book’ may not have deserved best picture, but did it deserve all the hate? 2019-02-28T05:00:00Z

After last year’s stark exhibition of Rei Kawakubo’s irregular apparel, the Met Costume Institute is back in blockbuster mode with this three-part blowout on the influence of Catholicism on haute couture of the last century. 23 Art Exhibitions to View in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-05-17T04:00:00Z

Back then, he photographed these precarious places in a classic documentary style influenced by Walker Evans and Dorothea Lange's stark images of the Great Depression in 30s America. The Garden: Alessandro Imbriaco photographs one family's exile to Eden 2013-02-15T12:27:38Z

He moves with a silky grace, and under the stark white makeup and elaborate black wig can scarcely be recognized as a man. A Kabuki Drama at the Lincoln Center Festival 2014-07-08T04:00:00Z

His photographs of Los Angeles — slightly washed out, sun bleached — are stark and familiar. Photographing California with a camera as big as a truck 2017-10-26T04:00:00Z

But with this hydrating newcomer, it’s easy to pull off a stark mouth without looking like a castaway. Skin Deep: Luxury Beauty Products and Services for Fall: Skin Deep 2011-08-24T20:18:06Z

The combination was surprisingly good, with the stark modernities of “Limen” set against the lush romanticism of “Marguerite” and the vaguely mystical rites of “Requiem.” Dance Review: In 'Marguerite,' Sparks Between a New Star and a Senior Ballerina 2011-10-17T11:43:13Z

And I’d say, ‘Well actually it’s always the perfect time to be screening a film like The Platform because we’ve always been living through at a time when these differences are so stark.’ What Netflix's The Platform tells us about humanity in the coronavirus era 2020-04-16T04:00:00Z

That grade was in stark contrast to the abysmal 17% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, the movie critics’ aggregate site. Hollywood Solves Its Fiscal Cliff Crisis: Hobbit, Django and Les Mis All Win Big 2012-12-31T00:33:39Z

This is in stark contrast to my boyfriend’s family. My boyfriend doesn’t like my parents. What does this mean for our future? 2014-09-28T04:00:00Z

In performance, his ready emotionalism stood in stark contrast to Sinatra’s studied cool. Jimmy Roselli, Italian-American Singer, Dies at 85 2011-07-10T20:30:58Z

His distinctive style of photography has evolved using a simple square format in stark and beautiful black and white. African art around the globe 2012-11-30T12:10:54Z

You always put something, as an actor or a writer, of yourself into a performance, and there are some stark similarities whenever I reflect on myself. Thomas Haden Church on his offbeat new "Acidman" role: "There is clearly something wrong with Lloyd" 2022-06-13T04:00:00Z

Both stark and opulent, they, too, suggest religious themes. Dance Review: Matters of Faith, Prayer And Physical Exertion 2011-01-14T23:06:31Z

She was depicted in stark opposition to human mannequin Galavis, a retired soccer pro whose rarely mentioned job was vaguely related to a Venezuelan sports museum. “The Bachelorette’s” twisted relationship to its contestants’ careers 2014-06-21T04:00:00Z

One is a stark etching of a dead man, addressing the apartheid history of her country. Review: Artists illustrate war, politics and more in Seattle group show 2011-04-28T20:14:19Z

A stark figure strode across its windswept hilltop, his black frock coat flapping in the breeze as he descended a winding cliff-side staircase, incongruous against the bleak backdrop. Patagonia adventure: a voyage round Cape Horn 2016-01-16T05:00:00Z

She was a studious, proper young lady, in stark contrast to him. Cynthia Lennon, the First Beatles Wife, Dies at 75 2015-04-01T04:00:00Z

And the stark, high-relief image of an everyman refusing to acknowledge the fuse burning under his nose will probably keep “The Arsonists” glowing in mind long after you’ve seen it. Review | ‘The Arsonists’ at Woolly dramatizes the modern world on fire 2017-09-13T04:00:00Z

The last, which I explored on a sparkling autumn day, would in hindsight become the emblem of the stark contrast between Kyrgyzstan’s brutal man-made aesthetics and beautiful countryside. Explorer: Deep Into the Dream World of Kyrgyzstan 2014-05-09T19:07:12Z

Kreike offers a stark corrective and an implicit warning: Humanity is not distinct from nature, and assuming it is can have tragic outcomes. Three Books Offer New Ways to Think About Environmental Disaster 2021-01-22T05:00:00Z

Doucet initially rejected paintings by the up-and-coming Joan Miró, calling the Catalan artist "mad, stark mad." A Look at Fashion Designer Jacques Doucet's Collectibles 2014-08-27T04:00:00Z

Playwrights and their collaborators, not wanting to be the proverbial fiddler sawing away as Rome burns, have had no choice but to contemplate their responsibility in a year of stark political turmoil. How theater should respond to a democracy in meltdown 2017-12-26T05:00:00Z

Photograph: Ronald Grant But in stark contrast to his efforts as a director, Kassovitz also seems to have become a movie star. Mathieu Kassovitz: 'I'm not proud to be French any more' 2013-04-18T19:00:00Z

It is stark and sometimes gruesome; this show loves blood, both as object and protean symbol. Review: In ‘Yellowjackets,’ It’s Reunion Time for the Crash of ’96 2021-11-11T05:00:00Z

Though the very fact of quarantine spoke to the global pandemic, I felt strangely disembodied from it, so stark a contrast was this place to home. To attend our daughter’s wedding, we spent 14 days quarantined in Scotland 2020-07-16T04:00:00Z

This declaration sits in stark contrast with earlier statements made by Erickson on the topic of gun control. Erick Erickson soils himself: Conservative host now too scared to see “Star Wars” in theaters 2015-11-17T05:00:00Z

The division between the two is stark as if the Serranos’ piercing meaning has been dulled and drained off with Currin’s pretty but essentially vacuous paintings. When we all smelled like teen spirit 2013-04-21T19:00:00Z

“It’s a contemporary take on the lights you get around a vaudeville stage,” O’Connor says of the bright yet stark box. A rock. A road. A tree. How set designers for 20th century’s most famous play change it up. 2018-04-12T04:00:00Z

His first attempt was stark and off-putting: a plain black cover with small white text. Peter Mendelsund, Book Designer, Debuts as a Writer 2014-07-28T04:00:00Z

But if there was ever a band with a stark contrast between clean-cut innocence and nasty stuff beneath the surface, it’s these guys. Drugs, paranoia and a creepy Charles Manson connection: Why we’re still fascinated with the dark drama of the Beach Boys 2015-06-05T04:00:00Z

It was exquisitely beautiful, but it also had that transgressive thing about it – stark, slightly shocking, but frightfully elegant. Director Maria Aitken, keeping Coward’s blithe spirit alive

The contrast to the hushed and somber homes in which I watched people meeting the end of their lives was stark. Dying is never easy: Assisted suicide doesn’t necessarily help us have a “good death” 2015-10-12T04:00:00Z

Then, in the early 1980s, something else took its place: the stark black outline of a crawling infant, in thick strokes of paint beaming outward. Keith Haring Mural Cut Out of New York Stairwell Heads to Auction 2019-10-18T04:00:00Z

The scene cuts to the young protagonist running away from bullies who pelt him with homophobic slurs, a stark contrast from the dealers' relaxed tones. How the indie studio behind ‘Moonlight,’ ‘Lady Bird’ and ‘Hereditary’ flourished while breaking Hollywood rules 2019-08-01T04:00:00Z

His forthcoming debut album, The Boat Party, is a bold, idiosyncratic alliance of soulful grooves and stark, jolting beats. Clubs picks of the week 2013-05-11T05:00:22Z

This solid, expertly managed drama, with its stark images of good men standing up to entrenched government evil, has earned critical hosannahs and could be the breakout favorite among year-end contenders for the Academy Award. REVIEW: 'Selma': The Film of the Year — But 1965 or 2014? 2015-01-01T05:00:00Z

His views are a stark and insulting contrast to the villagers’ self-concept. A Deaf Girl Finds Her Voice on Martha’s Vineyard in the 19th Century 2020-04-27T04:00:00Z

The bright colors might be the most controversial part of the new look, Feldman said, because they are in stark contrast to the muted palette previously used. The National Gallery is back. And it’s done being subtle about its brand and mission. 2021-05-12T04:00:00Z

In the United States premiere of “Split,” this talented Australian choreographer presents an elegant, stark duet for two women — one clothed, the other naked — as they perform on an ever-shrinking stage. 9 Dance Performances to See in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z

Surely, people built the bowling alley in Andrew Moore’s stark yet colorful picture, as well as the highway bridge in Dan Kessmann’s austere landscape. In the galleries: Where did all the humans go? 2015-11-04T05:00:00Z

This rambling vineyard country is a stark contrast to Washington’s arid wine districts east of the Cascades. What’s new, what’s novel in Oregon’s Willamette Valley wine country 2018-05-03T04:00:00Z

Such meager resources for heavily minority schools and districts are a major cause of stark disparities in qualifications, experience and other measures of teacher quality among educators of black versus non-black students. Black lives matter in school, too: Disparities in education begin at an early age — and that needs to change 2016-07-25T04:00:00Z

Then, after lunch, she traveled 45 minutes outside central Beijing to visit the studio of Hai Bo, whose stark photographs of peasants and rural landscapes hint at the world that just disappeared. Diane Von Furstenberg and China: A Perfect Fit? 2010-12-19T04:20:18Z

By that, I mean Ms. Silverman’s sense of how a stark and lonely landscape might indeed be a fertile petri dish for enterprising imaginations, turned in on themselves and longing for connection. Review: In ‘The Moors,’ Where Heathcliff Fears to Tread 2017-03-13T04:00:00Z

Stripped of phones, watches and any wires to the wider world, we become the passive playthings of the artist, sternly instructed to move slowly but never stop in a strange dance across this stark countryside. Walking – review 2012-08-23T16:51:25Z

They look prettily Minimalist, but illustrate in stark terms this country’s inequities where clean air is concerned. Tomás Saraceno: Following the Airborne Lives of Spiders 2022-02-20T05:00:00Z

These differences are less stark than they seem. No doubt about it: smokefree laws cut heart attacks in big way 2017-03-11T05:00:00Z

I like the negative space in this song, which puts all of its elements — grumbling guitars, fleet-footed beat, Jagger sass — in stark relief, really making them pop. The Rolling Stones Played Old! They Played New! 2023-10-24T04:00:00Z

Korean provocateur Kim examines his own troubled state of mind in this stark self-made confessional. This week's new films 2012-06-08T23:05:15Z

Over and over, its characters’ announcements that they’ll pay no penalties for their hard-partying ways are juxtaposed with stark graphics telling us what became of their characters. ‘S.N.L.’ Has Matt Damon Play Brett Kavanaugh in Season Premiere 2018-09-30T04:00:00Z

Spliced with Bacharach's stark recollections of bitter divorces and unseemly professional wrangling are the memories of those he met and married along the way. Anyone Who Had a Heart by Burt Bacharach with Robert Greenfield – review 2013-07-21T08:00:02Z

Characteristically built on stark, subjective monologues in counterpoint, her new piece is the work of an assured artist. | 'Horsedreams': ?Horsedreams,? at the Rattlestick Theater - Review 2011-11-18T03:02:40Z

“Having seen many of those same people at the funerals of my parents, it was quite a stark difference, a completely exciting moment created by Michael that I will never forget.” From Dating to Marriage, He Had a 5-Prong Plan 2018-05-04T04:00:00Z

The public seeing both the industry's cruelty and fragility in such stark light may have contributed to the explosive growth of demand for plant-based meats this year. Looking ahead: The top food and agriculture stories for 2021 2020-12-31T05:00:00Z

In a backstage conversation with these women held in Jackson's dressing room last month, it was inevitable that the subject of the play's stark relevance would crop up. 'A Raisin in the Sun' actresses discuss play's stark resonance 2014-06-06T04:00:00Z

"Spin" is aimed at a younger generation, but along with "India Sweets and Spices," the approach of these narratives is a stark contrast to the Indian identity-based films I grew up on. Beyond brown shame: Refreshing "India Sweets and Spices" moves past struggles of hyphenated identity 2021-11-28T05:00:00Z

Online through December, the show also has starker images, like those of empty store shelves and parents in scrubs, ready to work hospital shifts. 7 Things to Do on Labor Day Weekend 2020-09-03T04:00:00Z

Set in rural Albania, a local feud puts tradition and modernity into stark perspective for two endangered teens. This week's new films 2012-08-10T23:05:23Z

In his last songs, as always, he sought stark truth before comfort. An Appraisal: Leonard Cohen, Master of Meanings and Incantatory Verse 2016-11-11T05:00:00Z

The delirious clutter of that moment presented a stark contrast to the performance that earned Mr. Ross the win. Critic’s Notebook: Jamison Ross Wins Thelonious Monk Contest 2012-09-24T22:05:15Z

“It’s just so kind of stark, and it was just so different,” Pattinson said of the material. On 'The Rover' red carpet, Robert Pattinson in a new guise 2014-06-13T04:00:00Z

The generation gap between the two is stark. Movie Review: ‘Mulberry Child,’ Documentary About China 2012-09-06T23:45:48Z

All poured concrete, exposed brick and stark walls, it’s been called more Manhattan than Midwest. Discovering well-designed Fargo, N.D.

In truth, “At Home in the World” is a sweeping coming-of-age story, by turns stark, lyrical, eerie, and self-lacerating, with long sections that have nothing to do with Salinger. Joyce Maynard’s Second Chances 2019-02-08T05:00:00Z

One note to keep in mind: Look for maitakes whose underside and gills are stark white. Skip button mushrooms and look for these 7 mushroom varieties instead 2022-01-09T05:00:00Z

Still, they say, the actual rates uncover a stark reality: Girls of color are much more likely to become pregnant young. Quinceañera with baby fever 2019-03-30T04:00:00Z

It was the once-glorious metropolis that young people fled from after the shuttering of the steel mills in the early 1980s led to a mass exodus and a stark decline. Pittsburgh’s Youth-Driven Food Boom 2016-03-15T04:00:00Z

In her new collection of 13 stories, whose locales vary from Key West to Virginia and Maine, the stark indignities of aging, friends reuniting, loneliness and travel are common threads. Ann Beattie is one of our few contemporary masters of storytelling 2017-06-13T04:00:00Z

The 1927 Inn at Death Valley, with its mosaic-bottomed pool and towering palms, is an oasis that stands in stark contrast to our hottest national park. When the hotel is the destination 2021-11-18T05:00:00Z

In fact, up close, my great friend was quickly exposed to me as a person whose stark limitations, whose damage, were the equal of his charisma and brilliance. David Bowman and the Furry-Girl School of American Fiction 2019-01-02T05:00:00Z

South of the Border is kind of like a haunted house, or a one-night stand: Whatever illusion you had at night will vanish in the stark light of day. This S.C. roadside attraction is garish, tacky and un-PC — but I stopped anyway 2016-07-14T04:00:00Z

He was fierce in his liberalism and expressed it with a stark, powerful visual style. Paul Conrad, Cartoonist, Dies at 86 2010-09-04T20:34:00Z

It is a stark reminder that in some ways Haiti has progressed very little. In Haiti, Tracing a Paradise Lost 2017-12-04T05:00:00Z

The most natural dialogue actually comes when Angela films herself addressing her followers, her chirpy “Hey guys!” in stark contrast with her otherwise aloof demeanor. At the Holland Festival, Many Shades of Strange 2023-06-13T04:00:00Z

“There is stark personal accounting here; the ‘serious noticing’ of the title has as much to do with the self as with texts.” 12 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-01-23T05:00:00Z

It's going to be difficult for warring partners in a flagging business to get tough with each other while standing stark naked. Luther 2010-05-18T05:45:00Z

In its own way, because of its stark beauty, it is more unsettling than all of the worm-infested skulls and decaying corpses depicted in the etchings around it. Week Ahead: Aug. 22 ? 28 2010-08-19T14:57:00Z

The starkest difference between the two works is evidenced by their titles: Black is interested in plurality, and Ratajkowski is not, although she claims to be. Review | In Emily Ratajkowski’s ‘My Body,’ we see the picture from her point of view 2021-11-08T05:00:00Z

But with “Lewiston/Clarkston,” these affinities come into starker relief: Tiny references to one of the two plays bleed into the other, and the two works end on the same day. Pull Up a Seat. Two Plays, Dinner and Western History Are Served. 2018-10-18T04:00:00Z

Many explore stark contrasts, as ruminative searching lines broke into wild bursts. Review: JACK Quartet and Jennifer Koh in the NY Phil Biennial 2016-05-25T04:00:00Z

But “Quiz” has a real clarity about its timing and context, which brings the messiness of the cheating scandal at the story’s center into starker relief. The Best TV Episodes of 2020 2020-12-17T05:00:00Z

The originals allowed mass distribution of this sanitized history and now provide scenic context for Walker’s stark imprints. Issues of today echo in BAM exhibit ‘Emancipating the Past: Kara Walker’s Tales of Slavery and Power’ 2016-07-26T04:00:00Z

The dreamy, joyful atmosphere is in stark contrast with how Peckham and Brixton were once depicted in the mainstream British press. ‘Rye Lane’ Aims to Show You a Real London Love Story 2023-03-17T04:00:00Z

Pondering its stark exterior, observers might guess that the modernist Norwegian citadel photographed by Dornith Doherty is some sort of prison. Review | In the galleries: ‘Archiving Eden’ exhibition sprouts interest with macro photos 2019-07-05T04:00:00Z

What draws her most to the country, she says, is the stark beauty of its many geothermal baths--the Blue Lagoon in particular. World's Most Unique Travel Destinations 2010-12-15T16:00:00Z

And inevitably, stark Berlin techno faces competition from styles that are popular elsewhere. In Berlin, Still Partying in the Ruins 2014-11-21T05:00:00Z

Apparently all of the above, combined with the stark reality of Viserys’s ongoing circling of the royal drain, compelled her to conspicuously stand tall, as her uncle put it. ‘House of the Dragon,’ Season 1, Episode 5 Recap: Wedding Crashers 2022-09-18T04:00:00Z

In true Gordon style, the music tends violently percussive and extreme, relentless in its industrial repetitions, but with stark exceptions: a section of glassy harmonics, another of keening, drooping melancholy gestures. When a Critic Hosts the Premiere 2020-02-14T05:00:00Z

The setting, however, infused the character study with stark resonance. Hotel Room Theater: Richard Maxwell's 'Showcase' at the Millennium Biltmore 2016-12-11T05:00:00Z

It stands in stark contrast to the Churchill War Rooms in central London, one of the slickest and well-attended tourist attractions in England. Across Britain, Silent Relics of the Cold War 2016-02-26T05:00:00Z

The family’s comfortable apartment in Casablanca was a stark contrast to their home in Corrano, which was without electricity and indoor plumbing until the years after World War II. Into Corsica, From Rustic Villages to Stony Cliffs 2016-07-26T04:00:00Z

Not that editing here means trimming down — each production clocks in at just under four hours — but Icke’s revisions bring the centuries-old plays’ essences to stark, ultramodern light. A Rebound for a Summer Pairing of ‘Hamlet’ and ‘Oresteia’ at the Armory 2022-07-25T04:00:00Z

The director Joel Coen’s crackling, dagger-sharp screen adaptation of the play — called by its full title, “The Tragedy of Macbeth” — conjures a landscape of appropriate desolation, a world of deep shadows and stark negative space. ‘Tragedy of Macbeth’ Review: The Thane, Insane, Slays Mainly in Dunsinane 2021-12-22T05:00:00Z

Later, in a stark, vertical composition, the same church is given a close-up and a makeover; it becomes Pepto-Bismol pink against a green sky. Overnighter: Where Mondrian Lingers on a Dutch Coast 2012-08-22T19:00:20Z

Last night the difference in approach was stark as the ABC deliberately chose to abstain from predicting the ballot outcome until the vote was completed. Channelling political upheaval: how TV viewed the leadership spill 2013-06-27T04:19:17Z

She was also drawn to “that kind of pliability and mutability of language” — the ability to mold it, to persuade even on the starkest of stages, to defend the worst of crimes. Katie Kitamura and the Cognitive Dissonance of Being Alive Right Now 2021-07-11T04:00:00Z

A terrifying new documentary carries a stark warning that a nightmare has been lurking in the medical industry for decades and it might be in your body. The Bleeding Edge: behind the terrifying new Netflix documentary 2018-07-25T04:00:00Z

It is stark, sealed off and vaguely forbidding. Review: Kota Yamazaki’s ‘OQ,’ a Work of Contrasting Themes 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z

It's a dark tale, typical of a new generation of filmmakers like this year's Oscar hopeful Steve McQueen, who are taking Britain's tradition of gritty "kitchen sink" cinema in a stark and sometimes strange direction. Britain's 'kitchen sink' cinema finds dark new twist 2013-10-07T13:34:55Z

Among the memorable moments of this gravely moving work — the last Shostakovich wrote before his death in 1975 — are a series of stark unaccompanied sections that Mr. Bashmet played with eloquence and lucidity. Music Review: A Viola and a Piano in Search of Common Ground 2011-05-01T21:13:51Z

The music builds less by development than brooding accumulation; the counterpoint is stark. Review | Melbourne Orchestra brings sense of several places to Kennedy Center 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z

Each juxtaposes a gnomic phrase with a stark black and white image, but at this scale, they scan more as private entreaties than global dictates — rave fliers for young agitators. Barbara Kruger: Infinitely Copied, Still Unmatched 2021-11-11T05:00:00Z

To everyone else, she has stark instructions: “Stop escalating cyberwars. Stop geopolitical sabre-rattling. Stop interfering in elections. Stop torturing animals and eating them. Stop writing speeches on goatskin. Letting Julian go free would change everything.” Bravery, courage, strength – why Pamela Anderson thinks that Julian Assange is sexy 2017-06-22T04:00:00Z

However, the stark difference between the entrances, and, in some cases their positioning, rankles with some of those who live there. Poor doors: the segregation of London's inner-city flat dwellers 2014-07-25T04:00:00Z

Every line is treated as stark poetic realism, writ large and funny. A gothic 'Cripple' in Chicago straight from Galway 2011-03-17T14:32:10Z

“But the inequities are just really stark and really demoralizing.” Motherlode Blog: Amid Million Dollar PTAs, a School Fights to Keep Its Library 2012-06-04T14:36:45Z

But experts pointed to stark regional inequalities in terms of outcomes for young parents and their children. More women getting pregnant after 30 than in 20s for first time 2019-04-15T04:00:00Z

Finally, when I was 41, through a stark amalgam of science, chilly doctors, my own steely drive and who knows what measure of luck, my daughter arrived, strong, sweet and fully loved. Modern Love: A Forgotten Prayer, Answered ? Modern Love 2011-12-29T18:34:09Z

The intense performances, not least that of the theater’s vibrant chorus, popped against this stark setting. Opera Review: A Modern Media Spin on Ivan the Terrible 2014-03-06T11:43:55Z

That brief work’s stark cries of heraldry served as a moving, climactic end to a show that was paced to entertain. Review: The Bloom Is Still on Claire Chase’s Monumental Project 2019-03-03T05:00:00Z

Ali Catterall The scandal that has recently engulfed News International and that seems likely to cause further casualties among media, government and police, has thrown into stark relief Britain's weird obsession with celebrity. TV highlights 30/08/2011: The Great British Bake Off 2011-08-29T22:00:00Z

It’s particularly stark in comparison with another musical act now touring to similar response and acclaim: Bruce Springsteen. Taylor Swift and the Sparkling Trap of Constant Reinvention 2023-04-24T04:00:00Z

As well as being cheering, as our feet froze beneath discussions about abortion rights, the signs were a stark contrast to the feminist merchandise that emerged when feminism became infinitely marketable. Five things I learned on the Women’s March 2017-01-29T05:00:00Z

For the English National Opera, he set “Parsifal,” Wagner’s meditation, drawn from medieval legend, on sexual passion and love, in a stark, modern-day concrete bunker. Nikolaus Lehnhoff, German Opera Director, Dies at 76 2015-09-01T04:00:00Z

As a stark, gospel-tinged ballad, “Stay With Me” would seem a hard sell for commercial radio. Sam Smith, Up For Six Grammys, Is Getting Used to Arenas 2015-02-04T05:00:00Z

Another Po’ Girl song, “Corner Talk,” drew on conversations with a local sex worker; Russell recast it for her solo album as “All of the Women,” a stark, modal banjo ballad. Allison Russell Faces Her Past in Song 2021-05-13T04:00:00Z

The contrast in sensibility is often most stark in the way the action is resolved, or, in the case of European films, left unresolved. Hollywood Goes to Sweden 2010-02-18T17:04:00Z

The starkest version of that question is whether it’s possible to imagine a future worth wanting. ‘Palm Springs’ Review: Déjà Vu All Over Again 2020-07-09T04:00:00Z

And West's production, the way it works stark single-note piano notes against sliding, liquid bass, is glorious. Friday Favorites: Lace Cadence, Chocolate Chuck, Kanye West 2010-10-01T19:17:00Z

“Striking Out,” on Acorn TV, and “Corp + Anam,” on MHz Choice, also have the virtue of offering a stark and educational contrast. Review: From Ireland, a Rebounding Lawyer and a Crusading Journalist 2017-03-22T04:00:00Z

Note: What doesn't come across in Perfume Genius' dark, stark songs or my article is his sense of humor. Perfume Genius: a local musician gaining global attention 2010-09-16T19:22:00Z

The numbers are stark but not a surprise. Several factors contribute to NBC’s low Olympic ratings 2022-02-08T05:00:00Z

The staging is no 19th-century throwback, however; the action will unfold against stark, modern sets by Jones’s longtime collaborator, Stewart Laing. The Stakes Are Sky-High for a ‘Ring’ Coming to the Met Opera 2021-11-12T05:00:00Z

The stark white building, set against blue sky and green meadow, could have been painted by Edward Hopper. Riverstead: Talented chefs draw roadtrippers to Chilhowie, again

A modern-dress prologue gives way to traditional period costumes, and Robert Brill’s stark but imposing set designs are perfectly integrated with the festival stage. Critic’s Notebook: Stratford Shakespeare Festival, ‘Henry V’ and ‘Cymbeline’ 2012-08-19T21:11:38Z

Holly Hatam’s simple, stark style and limited palette reflect the essential and basic nature of equality, conveying that “Dear Girl” can be any girl. Picture Books About Kindness, Compassion and Peace in a Turbulent World 2018-01-12T05:00:00Z

Gunther’s photograph of the scene looks like an oil painting, with stark white light glancing off a soft blur of activity and still, sombre faces. Photographing Newark 2014-10-17T04:00:00Z

This food that I’m enjoying and the language I’m eagerly practicing is in stark contrast to the attitudes of my youth. The Chinese home I never knew 2016-01-01T05:00:00Z

For over 50 years he has honed a sound that’s bright and stark, especially in the upper register. Pop, Rock and Jazz in NYC This Week 2017-08-31T04:00:00Z

When it comes to actual dietary recommendations, the disagreement is stark. Perspective | Here’s what the government’s dietary guidelines should really say 2019-03-25T04:00:00Z

It was a painstaking process of extruding inks through cloth one color layer at a time, but the resulting vibrancy was a stark contrast to the usual hand-drawn posters. Meet the National Parks’ ‘Ranger of the Lost Art’ 2020-08-25T04:00:00Z

This is in stark contrast to the interpretations of Bach keyboard works we have grown used to, in which we prize, above all, clarity and precision. Music Review: Piotr Anderszewski’s Bach Recital at Carnegie Hall 2012-12-09T22:11:03Z

At the end of the hall Isabel stops at the spotlit photograph, a small black-and-white in the center of a vast expanse of stark white matting. Megaphone by Natalie Bakopoulos 2012-05-28T15:00:00Z

To experience the peninsula’s stark beauty and sea life, base yourself in La Paz, on the eastern side of Baja California Sur. Head to La Paz rather than overdeveloped Los Cabos for the real Baja California Sur 2019-10-02T04:00:00Z

Around 10 producers show off on these 13 maximal tracks, in stark contrast to the relative minimalism of West's previous album, 808s & Heartbreak. Kanye West: My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy (Roc-A-Fella/Def Jam) ? review 2010-11-19T12:35:00Z

The production is stark and simple; changes of mood are indicated by shifts in lighting, and the set is merely a few steeply raked rows of chairs facing the audience. Theater Review: ‘I Call My Brothers,’ From the Author of ‘Invasion!’ 2014-02-03T22:33:37Z

At best, we’re left with the stark elements of a parable, which raises the book’s pretentiousness quotient to dangerously high levels. Review | Dave Eggers’s ‘The Parade’ is a heartbreaking work of staggering cynicism 2019-03-11T04:00:00Z

His best-known and most striking work includes stark black-and-white images, desert landscapes, nudes, and inanimate objects like trees, rocks and shells, which in his photographs often look like sculpture. Edward Weston Photos to Be Auctioned 2014-08-25T04:00:00Z

The lyrics were of pure cretin simplicity, the music was primal and stark to the point of total banality: in other words, a great rock 'n' roll album. An initiation into Iggy Pop – a classic feature from the vaults 2013-04-30T14:30:19Z

Apparently homeless, with a teddy bear and blankets at her feet, she was decorating her patch of sidewalk with a pink wallpaper pattern — and covering up a stark black swastika on the wall above. In Paris, Banksy Spreads a Trail of Graffiti, and Rumors 2018-06-26T04:00:00Z

The arrangements are versatile, too: stark and eerie for When Doves Cry by Prince, warm and tender for Use Somebody by Kings of Leon, and enriched by electronic beats for the brothers' own material. Scala & Kolacny brothers: How Creep made a choir go global 2011-07-14T20:29:01Z

It’s a stark contrast to most of the TV landscape, where death is anything but grave. Here's What Game of Thrones Got Right About the Jon Snow Cliffhanger 2016-04-20T04:00:00Z

And the stark, neon-lit sets illuminate two dramatically fearless singers and the palpable chemistry between them. 'Manot Lescaut,' at Bavarian State Opera in Munich 2014-11-28T05:00:00Z

The lighting above the plaza, attached to the underside of the museum, is stark and conventional in these images. More details emerge on Zumthor plan for new building at LACMA 2016-08-04T04:00:00Z

According to “Released,” a stark documentary by Philip F. Messina, two-thirds of all inmates in the United States return to jail within three years of being freed. Movie Review: ‘Released,’ a Documentary by Philip F. Messina 2013-05-10T02:09:59Z

But there’s a difference between a horde of people coordinating to dress in the same striking color and one person making a stark color choice alone. Perspective | Marjorie Taylor Greene’s coat sent a message even before she heckled Biden 2023-02-08T05:00:00Z

The tape itself is usually hidden, with only its even, warm glow visible, but some showy shop windows will use it in its stark glory, Mirza says. Haroon Mirza: Adventures in sound and light 2013-05-29T07:33:23Z

Sometimes the nonhuman is a threat, at other times a comfort, but it always presents a profound ethical challenge based in a stark existential mystery: Who are we? | 'War Horse': ?War Horse,? Directed by Steven Spielberg - Review 2011-12-22T13:00:00Z

“Blessed” consists simply of two pieces of cashmere wool in contrasting shades of gray sewn together to form a stark horizon line. Art Review: A Textured Palette Without Much Paint 2011-01-27T22:58:12Z

Los Angeles is a place of stark socioeconomic variability, where some of the richest people in the country exist in bubbles only a few zip codes away from the impoverished. John Singleton’s slow-burning “Snowfall”: Crack’s origin story hits FX 2017-07-04T04:00:00Z

At times, they needed more speed to mirror Mr. McGregor’s rangy, skeletal distortions; the stark setting also exposed the knottiness of the partnering. Dance Review: Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, at City Center 2013-12-05T23:34:14Z

That is the stark conclusion of a three-year study published on Sunday. 15-minute laser is best treatment for glaucoma patients, says study 2019-03-09T05:00:00Z

Set against all this tradition, Markle is a stark contrast in modernity. When Harry weds Meghan: A week until Britain's royal wedding 2018-05-12T04:00:00Z

But on torch songs like the stark “Ghost On” and the stunning “Right Now,” Olsen finds a perfect balance between honoring the sounds of country’s past and updating them in her own image. Angel Olsen Finds a New Gear in a Vintage Genre: Country 2022-06-03T04:00:00Z

Atwood's mix of poetry and sharply observed social detail is devastating, and purposeful, too: a stark warning of what waits in the wings when a quasi-religious government has power over women's bodies. Why doesn't fiction deliver birth scenes? 2012-08-05T18:00:01Z

We surrendered to a skyscraper with a green mansard roof and two stark chimneys. Books of The Times: Gary Shteyngart?s ?Super Sad True Love Story? 2010-07-26T19:00:00Z

Mr. Nicoll played with notions of femininity, using lines of frilling on stark A-line dresses and making even faded rose prints and the well-known visible bra seem intriguing. Special Report: Fashion: London Spring/Summer 2012: Richard Nicoll, Jonathan Saunders 2011-09-18T16:34:51Z

He is alert to moments of stark poetry and gives them a gentle push. Books of The Times: ?Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom,? by Stephen R. Platt 2012-02-06T22:05:43Z

In some ways, this was easier than accepting the stark reality that in pregnancy–as in life–sometimes disaster strikes without warning and without reason. A distressed-baby-shaming CEO: What you can never expect when you’re expecting 2015-08-03T04:00:00Z

Taya Kyle, who offered emotional testimony at the trial of her husband's killer, also made appearances on behalf of the film, providing a stark real-life reminder of the abstractions of a movie screen. 'American Sniper' trial: Chris Kyle killer sentenced to life in prison 2015-02-25T05:00:00Z

When she has a stark reckoning with her decisions, it’s her moment of growth. Mackenzie Davis on playing a comedic antiheroine in “Izzy Gets the F**k Across Town” 2018-06-22T04:00:00Z

It’s a stark contrast from more familiar stories full of humorous anxiety and fear of disapproval. Comedy: Gay Male Comics Await the Spotlight 2012-08-15T14:06:57Z

That’s true of “Television,” a 1939 curio that opens with an audience seated in the dark before a tiny glowing screen that abruptly grows larger, a stark encapsulation of TV’s challenge to moviegoing. Film Treasures, Streaming Courtesy of the Library of Congress 2020-04-03T04:00:00Z

And his drawings evolved to suit the stark simplicity of these works, with simple lines of colored pencil on black or gray paper standing in for the electrified tubes. Art Review: Dan Flavin, Light Sculptor, in Another Medium at the Morgan 2012-02-23T22:36:10Z

In stark terms, one in five neighborhoods is getting whiter and richer, while the majority of the studied neighborhoods are getting darker and poorer. 5 surprising cities where gentrification is displacing the poor 2016-06-17T04:00:00Z

We were trying to create that environment to show a stark view of this material, or a more unadulterated look.” ArtsBeat Blog: James Franco and Other Art Stars of the Toronto Film Festival 2011-09-16T23:18:59Z

In the seasons since he assumed control, Mr. Gaytten has put his mark on the collections, trimming some of the baroque, historically inflected flourishes that Mr. Galliano preferred in favor of a starker, pared-back look. Bill Gaytten, Out From the Shadows Cast by John Galliano 2014-10-01T04:00:00Z

The subtitle of “Shame 2.0” is “With Comments From the Populace,” and those indisputably savage messages certainly throw the friction into stark relief. Review | This documentary play about Israeli artists is a raw, uneasy 80 minutes 2019-02-12T05:00:00Z

The bracken-clad hills are marked “Dundreggan forest” on the map but this Scottish glen is mostly stark Highland scenery: open, beautiful, and almost totally devoid of trees. Rewilding: How Trees for Life are renewing the Highlands 2019-12-14T05:00:00Z

The stark New Objectivity-style building was designed by Alexander Beer, a Jewish architect who later perished in the Theresienstadt concentration camp. In this fascinating German museum on the Kennedys, we can all be Berliners 2016-08-09T04:00:00Z

He filled the house with art and created a colorful garden that still draws visitors to the stark headland, which is overshadowed by a nuclear power plant. Tilda Swinton backs public appeal to buy Derek Jarman house 2020-01-22T05:00:00Z

In this version of “Heartbreak House,” the final moment is starker than usual, and more powerful. Review: A Disjointed Revival of Shaw’s Satirical ‘Heartbreak House’ 2018-09-10T04:00:00Z

In the book’s histrionic, italicized prologue, he collapses on the defense table “like a Spartan on his shield, stark and horrifying.” The Defense Rests? Scott Turow’s Favorite Lawyer Is 85 and Still Arguing 2020-05-11T04:00:00Z

The contrast of their garments, starker than almost anything else in the picture, seems to imply that the grand impartiality of light is the painting’s main theme. Artworks That Shine in New York Museums 2013-01-04T00:50:22Z

The kitchen's been changed – it's less stark now, darker and more ominous. TV review: MasterChef 2011-02-17T07:59:01Z

The movie pays homage to the French filmmaker Jean-Pierre Melville, who specialized in stark crime stories, suffused with ennui and populated by emotionally distant antiheroes. The Best Movies and TV Shows Coming to Netflix in November 2023-11-03T04:00:00Z

While the deep red of the dancer's tunics is striking against the choristers' purple robes, starker, stranger costumes would highlight the otherworldly quality of the music – as would less blandly uniform lighting. Richard Alston Dance Company ? review 2012-02-10T18:15:47Z

New York audiences encountered the crest in a stark gallery, without historical context, in the same way as Cubist or Futurist sculptures. African Masterpieces With the Grace of Kings 2018-01-17T05:00:00Z

His design for Jackson Browne’s 1974 album “Late for the Sky” contained a stark image of a single burning light underneath a cloud-filled sky and was inspired by a painting by Belgian surrealist René Magritte. Bob Seidemann, who shot iconic images of Janis Joplin and the Grateful Dead, dies at 75 2017-12-09T05:00:00Z

Coverage of the last American combat brigade to leave Iraq put the difference between the cable news networks in stark display. Coverage of Iraq exit shows networks' differences 2010-08-19T23:41:00Z

The contrast from that sensation was stark when, for my next act, I spent a day in Thom Browne. One Man, Five Designers 2016-01-08T05:00:00Z

Dark shadows across cool stone columns stand in stark contrast to the sun-lit water trickling off a courtyard fountain. Winston Churchill's paintings star in an exhibit on the Queen Mary 2016-05-06T04:00:00Z

But there’s a starker, darker streak of witty cynicism, social commentary and pizazz in the live rendition, and Village Theatre’s “Chicago” captures a lot of that. Killers in lingerie: Village’s snazzy ‘Chicago’ 2013-05-23T21:19:28Z

A 1950s-era concrete bridge that was used to transport coal to train hoppers was preserved, and the Shanghai architecture firm Atelier Deshaus constructed a new museum around it with a similarly stark, concrete design. An Arts Explosion Takes Shanghai 2015-11-05T05:00:00Z

The poignant moments of Humperdinck’s luminous score, conducted with a light, sensitive touch by Andrew Davis, are even more affecting set against these stark surroundings. ‘Hansel and Gretel,’ a Family Holiday Treat at the Met 2014-12-19T05:00:00Z

Just as Purifoy’s assemblages bore witness to anger and anarchy, Bradford’s salvaged posters were stark indexes to poverty, shame, desperation and exploitation. Perspective | Mark Bradford’s art sees all the broken places that led to this moment of protest 2020-06-08T04:00:00Z

It’s a stark reminder to consumers of just how disconnected we are from what we’re putting in, and on, our bodies. Give your cosmetics a safety makeover by using this simple website 2016-03-01T05:00:00Z

Behind this practical concern lie stark and frequently unspoken resentments and divisions. Cross Cuts: The Hard Work in ‘Before Midnight,’ Amour’ and Other Films and Shows 2013-06-19T15:15:49Z

Next to him, in stark contrast, blooms Claire Underwood — somehow increasingly beautiful with age, every blonde hair perfectly in place. “House of Cards” returns: Let the war between Frank and Claire Underwood begin 2015-02-27T05:00:00Z

One part of the monastery grounds — tiny caves carved painstakingly out of the rock face — stood in stark contrast. Romanian rhapsody — exploring an unsung destination in Eastern Europe 2018-03-01T05:00:00Z

Night after night, on the stark set of Jamie Lloyd’s Olivier Award-winning production of “Cyrano de Bergerac,” McAvoy has no period plumes or prosthetics to hide behind as he plays the title role. With ‘Cyrano,’ James McAvoy Is Savoring a ‘Purer Form of Storytelling’ 2022-02-24T05:00:00Z

I’ve stayed in both, finding solace in the stark landscape and the bejeweled night sky. Loving Las Vegas, from its glittering Strip to its alluring desert 2018-04-05T04:00:00Z

What the shrill, ostensibly life-loving advocates who see the world in the starkest black-and-white terms refuse to acknowledge is that safe, legal abortion saves women’s lives. Bill O’Reilly speaks for the babies 2013-02-05T16:09:00Z

This represents a stark and statistically significant difference. Fake Twitter accounts and the danger for politicians 2012-11-18T00:06:11Z

They wore draped clothing in weighty fabrics with a satiny sheen, in a somber palette of khaki, navy, clay, beige, gray, green, and brown with sewn-on ornamentation—a stark contrast to their medicinal pink surroundings. Marc Jacobs’s pink fantasy world closes New York Fashion Week 2014-09-15T04:00:00Z

“The rebel against tyranny, who stands in stark contrast to that mindless superstition and that mob mentality that causes people to give themselves the moral self-licensing to create the ‘other’… and thereby victimise people.” Devil's advocate: are satanists now the good guys in the fight against the evangelical right? 2019-08-15T04:00:00Z

The bright, colorful beaded garland is a dramatic contrast against the Christmas tree's stark white branches. 86 Fresh Christmas Ideas 2010-11-19T19:59:00Z

The lessons of “Watergate” have to do with the fragility and resilience of democratic institutions, and with the stark ethical challenges that sometimes arise in political life. Review: ‘Watergate’ Shocks Anew With Its True Tale of Political Scandal 2018-10-11T04:00:00Z

His absence was a stark reminder of just how conservative the Grammys remain, and how feeble they truly are as an engine for social change. The Grammys Want Us to Know That They’re Trying 2019-02-11T05:00:00Z

Northern Stage placed it in the tradition of stark, European expressionism; Matthew Dunster's recent version at Manchester Royal Exchange was vivid social realism. 1984 2010-09-28T20:29:00Z

It’s a conflict as stark as the gleeful “rooty-toot-toot” of Hardin’s vehicle as he approaches residences and the gloomy necessity of his task. Review | In ‘Standpipe,’ David Hardin offers poignant, fleeting reflections on the Flint water crisis 2021-01-19T05:00:00Z

The foreigners in Soboroff’s book, by stark contrast, are among the most vulnerable, persecuted for their presence alone. New Looks at the Fate of Foreigners in America, From the Privileged to the Most Vulnerable 2020-07-30T04:00:00Z

If you add to that Beckmesser's music and language, which Paul Lawrence Rose alleges are clear parodies of Jewish cantorial melody, and of Yiddish, the challenge it poses for the modern producer become stark. What's Wagner's secret? Love, actually 2013-04-25T16:00:01Z

Christie's auction house said Wednesday that it will sell the stark red-on-black "Self-Portrait" on May 11. Andy Warhol self-portrait to be sold in NYC 2011-04-20T13:16:04Z

In El Paso, the Beto signs — four stark white letters on black — were everywhere. From a cheerful Texas stadium to an anxious Boston party, here’s what the 2020 starting line felt like. 2018-11-07T05:00:00Z

This whole horrible episode is a stark reminder that it’s not just what a man says that matters, it’s what he does. James Deen, the porn star who failed as a feminist fantasy | Eva Wiseman 2015-12-13T05:00:00Z

Most are implicitly nocturnal, which is especially effective in stark images of apartment buildings and in two examples of “The Argument.” Art in Review: ANNE RYAN: ?The Black-Line Woodcut, 1945-48? 2011-11-03T21:39:00Z

Tracks such as The Student or Dubliners are fraught reveries, ambient enigmas, auditory hallucinations of fumbling, tumbling double-bass; stark, poignant dabs of manipulated piano; chirruping percussion and environmental noise. Does Nicolas Jaar's music defy description? 2010-09-01T15:22:00Z

Even the winner turned the anthem into a stark soul song. The Twists and Turns of ‘La Marseillaise’ 2016-12-13T05:00:00Z

With only a stark piano accompaniment it invariably stops audiences in their tracks. Never mind the birdlore: the new face of folk music 2013-01-27T16:59:01Z

Divided into vertical and horizontal and black and white, the composition is stark yet complex. In the galleries: A debate between red and blue at Charles Krause

The nominating committee went with "Boyhood," "Birdman," "The Grand Budapest Hotel," "Love Is Strange" and the stark, sublime sci-fi thriller "Under the Skin." Gotham Awards' 'Foxcatcher' conundrum: 'It was a struggle' 2014-10-23T04:00:00Z

The contrasts between the two events were stark. #JusticeForFlint’s radical love: While Oscar’s glamour beckoned, the real artists helped Flint be seen and heard 2016-02-29T05:00:00Z

What remains of great artists is their work and although Smart's paintings depicted the darkening skies, parched concrete and stark forests of Europe, his work maintains a strange and poetic universal vision. Jeffrey Smart: a surrealist visionary 2013-06-21T02:33:00Z

It’s a stark contrast to the savage frat party that is “The Death of Stalin,” Armando Iannucci’s hilarious and horrifying take on events around the time that Stalin keeled over. Men, Women, Cinema — No Longer the Same Old Story 2017-09-15T04:00:00Z

Simons - a minimalist - is in many ways the stark opposite of Christian Dior, the exuberant house founder who favored longer ankle-length silhouettes. Dior hemlines rise and designers use color, black 2012-09-28T20:38:10Z

The energy and anger of youth-oriented cinema was in stark contrast to the lush melodramas, saturated with longing and Technicolor, which were popular elsewhere. From Godzilla to Some Like it Hot – why the 1950s is my favourite film decade 2018-04-05T04:00:00Z

And its closing stanzas — cut into the headstone — the stark ending of one of his last poems. Climbing the summits of Irish literature

That’s a stark contrast from the 1959 version of the story, in which the culprit was a shoddy roof — an accident, sure, but hardly anything to break up a family over. The straight-washing of “Ben-Hur”: Remake of the ’59 epic drops gay subtext — and beefs up religious themes 2016-08-21T04:00:00Z

Adored by many Chicagoans, Hudson will pose a stark contrast to Balfour, a short man with a long criminal record. Hudson star power to complicate murder trial 2012-04-08T18:06:08Z

The deadpan photographs of August Sander and Albert Renger-Patzsch catalog people, places and things, asserting the incontrovertible authenticity of stark visual facts. A chilling portrait of Germany's Weimar era emerges in 'New Objectivity' at LACMA 2015-10-05T04:00:00Z

I’m sure a lot of people walked in on him lots of times when he was stark naked. The Last Lion Author Paul Reid on How He Came to Write Churchill’s Biography—and His Eight-Year Struggle to Complete It 2013-01-03T16:00:43Z

The show is a stark reminder of a grim time marked by shocking government venality. 'Made in L.A.' biennial art survey taps a social undercurrent 2014-06-19T04:00:00Z

Nors’ writing is by turns witty, gut wrenching, stark and lyrical. Breaking up is hard, even for the avant-garde: Dorthe Nors' 'So Much for That Winter' 2016-06-16T04:00:00Z

But the division between the haves and have-nots is also starker than ever. Top 5 investigative videos of the week: “Poverty is what makes the rich rich” 2013-06-02T13:00:00Z

In the first verse, Brown talks about the preponderance of school shootings in stark terms: The Playlist: Kane Brown Confronts Gun Violence, and 12 More New Songs 2018-11-09T05:00:00Z

Again, one of Sam Hill’s historic creations sat in stark contrast to the high-tech alternative power source. Maryhill Museum invites you to tango nights in the Gorge 2017-08-17T04:00:00Z

The effect is stark and rigid, even though Pida’s brushwork is loose. In the galleries: Art that’s coolly conceived, rigorously made 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z

Icelandic mysteries, with their stark landscapes and frontier atmosphere, have a natural kinship with the American western. Review: Like Nordic Noir? ‘Trapped’ Is Chilly, and Pulls You In 2017-02-17T05:00:00Z

Elongated silver tubes clung to the bustier of flowing gowns in liquidy silks, while gleaming gold cables snaked round the cuffs and necklines of stark white column dresses. Chanel's casual chic vs. Givenchy's extreme art 2011-01-25T23:56:11Z

On the other are Justyne Fischer’s stark woodcuts of recent victims of controversial police actions. In the galleries: The free-for-all that is Artomatic 2015-11-25T05:00:00Z

“It takes you from moments of bleak, stark reality of living in a Black, talented body into taking you to the party,” Awad said. For Keioui Keijaun Thomas, the Body Becomes a Vessel 2021-07-13T04:00:00Z

The Batman adventure was moody, filled with eerie, stark shadows that heightened the creepiness of villains like Calendar Man, Joker and Scarecrow. Tim Sale, Comic Book Artist Who Reimagined Batman, Dies at 66 2022-06-17T04:00:00Z

Hall has a reputation for her posts, which are in stark contrast to her fellow mommy bloggers and influencers who tend to present a life that looks more like perfection than reality. Controversial mommy blogger says she drinks wine to cope with kids 'driving her crazy' 2019-11-27T05:00:00Z

The contrast between them and the Starks cannot be more, well, stark. Game of Thrones Watch: It's All in the Execution 2011-04-18T19:00:00Z

In “Guilt,” she starts out confessing, “Ooh, it hurts/It hurts so much I want to cry” over nothing but stark, bowed double stops; later, a contrapuntal cello melody becomes her companion in loneliness. New Music: A Great Big World and Linnea Olsson Release Albums 2014-01-20T23:07:13Z

He was captivated by the bold colors of Pablo Picasso and Salvador Dalí and the planes of analytical cubism, but it was of the stark work of Edward Weston that made the biggest impression. For photographer Gil Mares, the Port of L.A. is his supermodel 2016-08-27T04:00:00Z

Imprinted on its angular walls are outlines of tires and other detritus, a stark tribute to the previous life of the place. T Magazine: Baja Fresh 2012-11-15T20:00:49Z

But the chords at the end, in some performances slashing and stark, were here warm, resonant, full, even mellow. Review: A Conductor Adds Her Name to Philharmonic Contenders 2022-01-07T05:00:00Z

No one can predict how viewers will respond to a show like “Snowpiercer,” with its stark depictions of life-or-death stakes, during this time. On Track for the Apocalypse, ‘Snowpiercer’ Comes to Television 2020-05-14T04:00:00Z

Its position seems a stark reminder that freedom of expression, which artists should be able to take for granted in any democratic country, is steadily being eroded in Australia. Censorship is stifling Australia's artistic freedom of expression 2013-06-13T23:39:31Z

There's a close-up picture of an eye recaptured against a stark black background, and an image of a romantic landscape re-photographed with deadpan irony propped against a wall. This week's new exhibitions 2011-01-29T00:06:24Z

Early on, I began to question the reasons for a such a stark under-representation of people of colour in the field. Q&A: Aaron P Dworkin 2013-05-10T13:15:12Z

She stopped David Saint’s busy staging by standing stark still. Gustavo Dudamel's Hollywood Bowl 'West Side Story' is a story for right now 2016-07-15T04:00:00Z

The rooms themselves are stark, bright, featureless, anonymous and modern: models of the 20th-century American service economy. My favourite Hitchcock: Psycho 2012-07-23T10:57:21Z

Lipson said she found the hall, with its massive exposed steel trusses, architecturally beautiful, and a welcome nod to old New York at a time when stark glass slabs are rising all over town. Moynihan Train Hall Becomes a Destination: ‘This Gives Us Hope’ 2021-01-21T05:00:00Z

The stark three-walled set and floor resemble a giant grid and Christopher draws faces and math formulas on it. 'Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time' dazzles on Broadway 2014-10-06T04:00:00Z

It is very individual, with stark, short passages. 5 great books on world travel 2013-02-04T12:45:00Z

Facing foreclosure on the family farm and violent retribution from the family of the bully he accidentally killed at the fairgrounds, Emmett has an immediate and stark choice — should he stay or should he go? Amor Towles’s New Novel Takes You on an American Road Trip 2021-10-05T04:00:00Z

The world she left behind is imagined as a lush, shadowed, fairy-tale environment, a stark contrast to the dry, sun-bleached reality of a fledgling modern nation. Review: From Natalie Portman, Israel’s Birth Distilled in Mood and Memory 2016-08-18T04:00:00Z

“Ballplayer: Pelotero” is a stark documentary that examines that process in the Dominican Republic, a significant source of players. Movie Review: ‘Ballplayer: Pelotero,’ Baseball Scouting in the Dominican Republic 2012-07-12T23:28:28Z

It's the same modest, soft-spoken persona that became his trademark on Season 6 of Bravo's "Top Chef," which portrayed him in stark contrast to the mouthy arrogance of another contestant - his younger brother, Michael. Voltaggio brothers: Different routes to same path 2012-01-13T18:06:07Z

But while the rioters' indifference to the intellectual riches on offer at Waterstone's may or may not be attributable to the much-touted death of the book, it does throw up some stark questions. Reading the riot acts: why wasn't Waterstone's looted? 2011-08-12T11:03:04Z

The painting's art historical fame is largely the result of the stark stylistic shift in propagandistic subject matter embodied with such power. Propaganda is here to stay. Is there a museum willing to tackle its complexity? 2015-12-12T05:00:00Z

The 1996 film “Freeway” took a black-comedy approach to the same case, but there’s no comedy here; the violence and terror are stark. ArtsBeat Blog: Channel Surfing: 'Hunt for the I-5 Killer 2011-09-30T19:00:26Z

The spellbinding second act — the ballet within a ballet known as “Kingdom of the Shades” — creates a stark shift in temperament, in which exoticism is replaced by classicism. Dance Review: American Ballet Theater’s ‘Bayadère’ at Met Opera House 2012-05-23T22:30:07Z

Each was a wordy poem written in white letters on a stark black background. Ace Hotel joins growing billboard art movement in a big way 2015-07-08T04:00:00Z

Transposed to the modern guitar, the light-and-shadow contrasts of Dowland’s compositions become starker; the flights of counterpoint more brilliant. Classical Playlist: Strauss, Bartok, John Dowland and More 2014-09-10T04:00:00Z

The resulting likes, thumbs-ups, and other ratings all get tallied, both in the stark arithmetic of the Internet and in kids’ own minds. How girls are seeking (and subverting) approval online 2017-07-09T04:00:00Z

Unsurprisingly, not so much - she accuses him of "a stark lack of faith in the American people," among many other things. Palin book takes aim at some new targets 2010-11-19T19:23:00Z

Katniss' younger sister, Primrose, is played by Willow Shields, who brought another pop of color to the stark white procession in a green floral Christian Siriano gown. Jennifer Lawrence, 'Mockingjay' ladies dazzle at L.A. premiere 2014-11-18T05:00:00Z

I want to make this readable, to not be just about stark grief because, thank God, not everybody has to deal with that. "That is the David Carr way": Erin Lee Carr on writing fearlessly on grief, addiction and her father 2019-04-20T04:00:00Z

"A Boy in France" is a stark, bruised piece of battlefield realism that sees Babe removing a blood-drenched blanket from a dead German soldier's foxhole. JD Salinger is best revealed in his work 2011-01-31T13:08:28Z

The major issues are stark and static and unsubtle. My year of living ignorantly: I entered a news blackout the day Trump was elected 2018-01-18T05:00:00Z

The story begins in 1866 in Abilene, Tex., with a stark scene in which outlaws unceremoniously kill Hannah’s parents and — perhaps; it’s not entirely clear — her brother while she watches from a hiding place. Television Review: ‘Hannah’s Law,’ on the Hallmark Movie Channel 2012-06-08T20:43:07Z

And while the murder investigation is stark and unrelenting, relationships change, and buried secrets are revealed in ways that are too intriguing to set aside. | 'The Killing': A Thinking Woman?s Detective 2011-04-01T20:18:51Z

Eventually wails and pummeling drums; thwacks stark as bullets; and buzzing, bawling electric guitar overwhelm the shining ecstatic wonder, the wordless hymns. Review: A Composer’s Redacted Music and Raucous Noise 2019-04-19T04:00:00Z

Another book was born from a column about the stark differences between men and women in the way they conduct their lives after a divorce. Jeffrey Zaslow, Best-Selling Author, Dies at 53 2012-02-11T04:53:59Z

Ms. Ivey described the piece as a “modern-day fable rooted in stark reality” that “explores what it means to be a Sikh American in this day of racism and fear.” Lauren Yee and Jaclyn Backhaus Win Horton Foote Prize for Plays 2018-09-04T04:00:00Z

On “Blank Project” and onstage, Ms. Cherry was backed by RocketNumberNine — the brothers Ben Page on keyboards and electronics and Tom Page on drums — in arrangements that are stark yet complete. Neneh Cherry at the Highline Ballroom 2015-01-11T05:00:00Z

The show’s sixth episode, “Three Men and Adena,” which first aired in March, was a stark, dramatic example of what made “Homicide” different from other cop shows. When ‘Homicide’ Hit Its Stride 2023-05-11T04:00:00Z

There was a kind of solace in the stark language of “good” and “bad.” Junk Food Was Our Love Language 2020-11-27T05:00:00Z

“It was a stark reality that I faced.” Candis Cayne, From Chelsea Drag Queen to Caitlyn Jenner’s Sidekick 2015-08-21T04:00:00Z

The stark, stone Madison Avenue structure will offer the Met badly needed space for contemporary art from around the world. Met Museum to take over Whitney's NYC space 2011-05-11T22:12:12Z

Beckett’s solitary landmark, a barren tree, is replaced here on Wilson Chin’s stark set by a single lamppost, under which Moses spins dreams of a “promised land” for Smallwood’s emotionally dependent Kitch. Review | ‘Pass Over’ opens — the first Broadway play in what feels like forever. And it’s funny and poignant. 2021-08-22T04:00:00Z

The plates and the witnesses then force people to a stark decision: Is he a fraud or did he actually find plates?” The Book of Mormon’s foggy origins 2012-08-12T16:01:00Z

Apart from our own brutal Civil War, U.S. democracy has seemed a charmed bedrock of stability — surviving mass migrations, periodic depressions, and stark economic inequality. Is Donald Trump "crazy?" Wrong question 2017-09-05T04:00:00Z

In "The Half Has Never Been Told," Baptist adds many new, stark and essential elements to that story. 'The Half Has Never Been Told' looks at the economics of slavery 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z

The music tapped into the twin streams of pre-rock blues and country, a stark contrast to the psychedelic experiments of the late '60s. Levon Helm, drummer and singer for the Band, dies of cancer 2012-04-19T19:39:00Z

The starkest piece is Maxim Kantor’s large etching “The Lonely Crowd,” made just as the Soviet Union collapsed. In the galleries: The selling of the Cold War and the Red Menace 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z

Ms. Davis and Mr. Taborn are two pianists with an ear for stark clarity and unflinching abstraction. The Playlist: Drake Preps for a Return, and 12 More New Songs 2018-01-26T05:00:00Z

The relative acceptance of L.G.B.T.Q. people in Guinea-Bissau stands in stark contrast to the strict laws and social conventions in other West African countries and across the continent. ‘I Have to Be Open’ 2018-06-23T04:00:00Z

In contrast while the North of Westeros “is like its Warden: stark, unforgiving, masculine and wild”, the north of England was described by a Tudor traveller as a “rough and barren” land. "Game of Thrones" in real life: Actual history, just as epic as George R.R. Martin's tales 2019-04-06T04:00:00Z

It was 2004 — three years after 9/11 — and he noticed a stark change in the exhibit space outside the auditorium. Opera film ‘Soldier Songs’ about war trauma heads to Grammys 2022-03-23T04:00:00Z

Elsewhere, the music reveals Hadelich’s gifts for shading — the great Chaconne from the Second Partita has stark contrasts here — but also betrays his shortcomings, particularly his unreliability in teasing out implied counterpoint. 5 Classical Albums to Hear Right Now 2021-05-06T04:00:00Z

Milstone urged students to think of their holiday trips in stark terms. How experts say college students going home for Thanksgiving can avoid a ‘recipe for disaster’ 2020-10-29T04:00:00Z

It was a stark contrast from previous years, when the show was as much about Lewis at center stage as the donations themselves. Lewis gone, but telethon brings in more than '10 2011-09-05T15:36:08Z

Still, by the end of the films the humanity and complexity of each man is thrown into stark relief. Robert F. Kennedy and Mr. Rogers: Two icons of masculine empathy sorely missed today 2018-06-05T04:00:00Z

The re-enactments are attractively filmed, with stark cinematography and colorful costume choices. ‘A Cops and Robbers Story’ Review: Keep Your Enemies Closer 2022-01-13T05:00:00Z

Returning to the island under the light of a crescent moon, I watched the Sapona shrink into the distance, stark and melancholic. In the Bahamas, Scuba Diving With James Bond’s Trainer 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z

More sky than land, its stark horizon is broken, barely, by a single rickety structure. ‘French Pastels: Treasures From the Vault’ Review: Delicate and Delightful 2018-07-14T04:00:00Z

And upstage, behind the kitchen, French doors open to reveal Jimmy’s space, a jamboree of multicolored Christmas lights and beaming ornaments in stark contrast to the rest of Dan and Marta’s demure home décor. ‘Des Moines’ Review: Drowning in the Drink 2022-12-16T05:00:00Z

It's a stark, haunted piece, inspired by butoh, the Japanese dance form that uses ritualised, often grotesque, body language to evoke dark hinterlands of emotion and instinct. Bartabas: dances with horses 2011-02-21T21:31:00Z

You’ve known such moments, surely, when the spectacle of people going stark raving wild carries its own irresistible, anarchic logic. Review: ‘The Present’: Even in Russia, It’s Hard to Turn 40 2017-01-08T05:00:00Z

And Johannsson’s stark, uncompromising passion project is always striking to the eye even in moments when the narrative lulls. ‘Last and First Men’ Review: Pondering Posterity 2021-12-09T05:00:00Z

There, against the stark white of the porcelain, were clumps of short red hair. We Needed More Significant Others 2021-01-08T05:00:00Z

You’ll find the web’s longest list of films about death on the website Urns Online, which promises everything from “light comedy to stark and depressing art films”. Breaking the taboo: the director who has filmed the moment of death 2018-09-13T04:00:00Z

In jewelry it sided defiantly with modernism in its clear, geometric lines, sharp angles, stark contrasts of light and dark, or hard all-white fields of platinum and diamonds. Special Report: Jewelry: Rarity of Art Deco Work Keeps Prices Buoyant 2010-05-20T13:30:00Z

The visuals and stark lighting owed much to German Expressionist films and the music echoed that sense of fractured intensity. Who is David Bowie? A guide to the V&A retrospective 2013-02-16T19:59:00Z

The murder is portrayed in a particularly stark manner: an ambiguous longshot that keeps us guessing. ‘Stranger by the Lake’: Death, desire shape artful gay thriller 2014-03-06T20:19:35Z

In stark prose, he announces that the United States today faces a binary choice, “poised between two possible futures — one of conflict, even nuclear war, and one of peaceful cooperation.” What Is America’s Role in the World? Three Authors Offer Very Different Views 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z

All told, the quartet were a stark picture of the various ways in which failures of the state and family, and the vagaries of fate, are likely combine for most of us in the end. TV review: When I Get Older; River Cottage: Three Go Mad 2012-07-04T21:00:01Z

It is also a stark reminder, she said, of what her own grandmothers wore in their youth, just two generations ago. One Garment’s Journey Through History 2022-04-09T04:00:00Z

In its mid-1990s and early-century prime, Murder Dog — the utilitarian, stark, fanatical rap magazine from the Bay Area — offered a far less gentrified take on hip-hop than its competitors. Reissues: ’50s Moxie, ’60s Soul and ’90s Hip-Hop 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z

Among Green Bay’s long, stark blocks — sun-baked in summer; snow-caked in winter — the stretch of Broadway between Dousman and Howard, filled with boutiques, cafes and restaurants, offers the most urbane bustle. 36 Hours in Green Bay, Wis. 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z

Inside the stark black or gray exteriors are bright colors, textured carpet and other unexpected decorative touches. In the galleries: An early spring is always welcome 2017-02-17T05:00:00Z

Another is to make your characters a notch starker, more neon in their narcissism, so that no one can misread them as role models, then insist that they’ve failed in their task. Goodbye “Girls”: A Review of a Fittingly Imperfect Finale 2017-04-18T04:00:00Z

Its verses and choruses are as ruthlessly stark as a hip-hop production, mostly just drumbeats and electronic tones, behind a nursery-rhyme melody in the verse and a rhythmic chant in the chorus. Taylor Swift Goes to a Darker Place: Discuss 2017-08-25T04:00:00Z

The contrast between new industry and persistent poverty was stark; along one stretch of road, squatters live in one-room shacks across the street from a gleaming soda factory. The Bizarre Trial of a Poet in Myanmar 2016-03-02T05:00:00Z

The choice is stark this season, between Mr. Phillips, 21, who would become the fifth consecutive white male guitarist to win the competition, and Ms. Sanchez, 16, who would become the youngest “Idol” winner. ‘American Idol’ Ponders a Ratings Dip on Fox 2012-05-22T22:25:31Z

You got a sense of the character’s personality, but less of her stark power. Music Review: She Can Be Tender, but She May Be a Killer, Too 2011-06-10T23:00:13Z

Few films of this period show such a stark disdain for institutional authority; fewer still such sexual frankness in portraying the evolution of Webb and Susan’s affair. DVDs: Visions From 1951, Noir and Psychedelic 2011-02-05T03:33:01Z

The two performers who aren’t appearing in a given scene visibly occupy the shadows, hunched and depleted, on the edges of Andrew Lieberman’s stark set, lighted by Pat Collins. Review: ‘Fulfillment Center’ Finds the Poetry in Missed Connections 2017-06-20T04:00:00Z

And Central Park at dawn looks starkly divided between nighttime and morning, because this book is also about stark questions of right and wrong. Books Of the Times: No Vaccine for Agony From Viral E-Mail 2011-07-24T22:22:40Z

Mr. Ford was a completely self-taught musician, and the blues that sprang from him was stark, harsh and haunting even by the standards of the genre. T-Model Ford, Late-Blooming Bluesman, Is Dead 2013-07-19T00:45:07Z

This stark simplicity was inspired by Elsa Schiaparelli’s own style. A Closer Look at Schiaparelli’s Surrealist Couture Jewelry 2020-01-20T05:00:00Z

While last season these methods were on stark display, with the spring/summer 2011 collection, their implementation was finely executed with a light touch. Special Report: The Forecast? Variable and Partly Stylish 2010-06-20T16:13:00Z

In addition to the dozens of stark, snaky, paper maquettes, the show also includes paper lamps made especially for this presentation. Visit Cahiers d’Art in Paris to See Monika Sosnowska’s Paper Models 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z

Two are African American, which is worth citing in a genre that's been recently called out for its stark lack of Black representation in its writing staffs. "Tommy" is bracing and earnestly woke, maybe even too much for CBS' audience 2020-02-06T05:00:00Z

She rode the arching phrases of the beloved “Black Roses” and cooled her big, exciting voice for the dramatic switch from coy humor to stark disappointment in “A Girl Came Home From Meeting Her Sweetheart.” Music Review: A Celebration of the Song Recital, and of the Potential of 4 Young Voices 2011-01-24T23:20:10Z

Study # 3, for the full company of 17 dancers and just as stark, takes a different tack. The Forsythe Company – review 2013-06-19T12:35:07Z

But while cooking has brought comfort and meaning into countless homes, it has also highlighted stark global disparities. What We Eat During a Plague 2020-07-16T04:00:00Z

It’s a beautiful song, and Del Rio looks stunning, decked out in stark black-and-white against a hazy red curtain, bathed in soft crimson light. ‘Twin Peaks’ Season 3, Episode 10: Candy-Colored 2017-07-16T04:00:00Z

As first among the Fauves — or Wild Beasts — he, along with Georges Braque and André Derain, revolutionized painting with a new emphasis on stark color: color for color’s sake. Art Review: Matisse at MoMA: Carving With Color 2010-07-15T16:01:00Z

The aesthetic movement stood in stark and sometimes shocking contrast to the crass materialism of Britain in the 19th century. Aesthetic values 2011-03-26T00:05:03Z

Speaker after speaker pointed to the stark inequality still exists on the streets and sidewalks of America. “Tell me your ZIP code and I can tell you how healthy you are”: Shouldn’t the most accessible exercise of all be available to everyone? 2015-12-08T05:00:00Z

A giant American flag billows in the opposite direction, its colors offering stark contrast to the muted tones of the ramshackle home. Who owns patriotism, the left or the right? American artists know the answer 2018-06-16T04:00:00Z

There's a stark difference between the clothing The Traveling Symphony wears and the clothing worn by the society that's lives in the airport. From logos to gender fluidity, what "Station Eleven" costumes reveal in the aftermath of apocalypse 2022-01-15T05:00:00Z

Ms. Erger says she is prepared for a strong reaction from museumgoers who ask why such stark images are being presented. At Michigan State, Bold Statements About Big Issues 2020-03-11T04:00:00Z

Doiron captures the stark beauty of his setting without averting his eyes from the sick and starving wildlife, the rancorous feuds among the lobstermen or the homicidal impulses that push islanders off the deep end. Hate Thy Neighbor. Or Maybe Just Kill Him. 2018-07-06T04:00:00Z

Crowe's grizzled, resigned countenance seems to confirm that Noah really to be a stark and serious examination of the story. Noah fun 2012-08-13T12:06:35Z

It’s a startling thing to see because the contrast with her regular expression is so stark. ‘Barbara’: a doctor’s quiet, fascinating battle of wills in Germany 2012-12-20T21:54:47Z

Descendants of the original Sputnik chandelier — named after the Soviet satellite that was the first to orbit the Earth, in 1957 — are found everywhere, but especially in stark modern rooms that beg for whimsy. Trends in Design and Home Furnishings 2018-05-08T04:00:00Z

Alex Majoli’s stark black-and-white photographs show the refugees’ continuing struggle to register with the authorities when they arrive on the island’s rocky northern beaches. A Tragedy Unfolds on Lesvos 2015-10-23T04:00:00Z

Her stark, powerful photographs have been included in multiple biennials and international exhibitions. Review: Zanele Muholi, a Visual Activist, Presents ‘Isibonelo/Evidence’ 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z

The title track, on which all three women share vocals, is a stark stunner about squeezing men dry, then dumping them like bad memories. New Albums from Pistol Annies and Barbra Streisand 2011-08-22T22:39:07Z

And with a nice touch of synchronicity, I'd only recently reread the story, in a beautiful hardback collection of all Oscar's work, complete with Aubrey Beardsley's wonderfully stark illustrations, old playbills and so on. Dorian Gray's true picture of Oscar Wilde 2010-04-29T09:01:00Z

Perhaps that stark, enigmatic, austere film tapped into a side of Karina that did not interest Godard: a kind of religious mystery. Anna Karina: an actor of easy charm and grace whose presence radiated from the screen | Peter Bradshaw 2019-12-15T05:00:00Z

Eerily floating string disharmonies were cut off by jarring percussion and brass outbursts; inquisitive wind motifs were answered with stark silences. Music Review: The Many Paths of Japan?s Avant-Garde 2011-04-11T20:27:03Z

The McHale character, by stark contrast, believes at least one thing that is actually true. The X-Files episode one recap – weird, but not in a good way 2016-01-24T05:00:00Z

Gone are the early flowers and furbelows in favor of a stark background on which the figure of Queen Elizabeth II is silhouetted in an admiral’s black boat cloak. Exhibit on Cecil Beaton and the British Royal Image 2012-02-10T11:05:27Z

To stand atop a Canberra hilltop is to contemplate the stark charm of the Australian bush: vast grassy fields, swaths of eucalyptus forest and Instagram-worthy sunsets. 36 Hours in Canberra, Australia 2014-06-05T04:00:00Z

Mifune is the ambitious samurai at the centre of a stark world laced with violence, beauty and irony. Akira Kurosawa: 10 essential films for the director's centenary | Ben Walters 2010-03-23T13:14:00Z

Christopher Stephen Clark, the English musician who records as Clark, has built a huge, polymorphous catalog of instrumental music that ranges from stark, austere techno to exquisite chamber-music soundtracks. Rosalía Issues an English Request, and 9 More New Songs 2023-01-27T05:00:00Z

Crazy schedules and a stark age gap, the sources said. Robin Wright, Ben Foster call off engagement, report says 2014-11-12T05:00:00Z

Now celebrating its 25th anniversary, this group presents “Kreatur,” a stark, otherworldly work that takes place — timely enough — in a chaotic setting rife with disruption and disenfranchisement. 8 Dance Performances to See in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z

It might all sound like a radio play, but the stark, ghostly image of Ryan Reynolds's anguished face is gripping. Film review: Buried 2010-09-30T21:00:00Z

It is not, in the end, a poem about war but rather about life and death, which stand out in starker relief on the battlefield than in any other setting. A Misguided Impulse to Update the Greek Classics 2017-04-21T04:00:00Z

When June Tabor released her album of Child ballads, An Echo of Hooves, she noted that they represent "storytelling at its stark, urgent best … songs in which poetry and music are equally important". Anaïs Mitchell and Jefferson Hamer – review 2013-03-07T16:33:12Z

It’s a stark contrast with her current situation, where the only interaction she had with her neighbors was on move-in day. The do’s and don’ts of apartment living, self-quarantine edition 2020-03-31T04:00:00Z

The contrast with the last time the company toured with a full orchestra and chorus, in 1998 to Finland, Germany and Edinburgh, is stark. The Royal Opera on tour in Japan 2010-10-01T23:06:00Z

The one cavil about Psyche Stott's production, presented on a stark grey slope against a panoramic sky, is that she fudges the denouement – the abstract staging makes the children's complicity in a fatal accident unclear. Blue Remembered Hills - review 2013-05-02T14:05:36Z

Thanks to often-descending melodic motifs and stark rhythmic eruptions, the work evoked some of the weightiness of its title, which references both the Book of Ezekiel and a William Blake poem. Review: A Montreal Orchestra Brings Back Bartok’s Strangeness 2017-10-20T04:00:00Z

It serves as a stark reminder that while African Americans celebrate freedom on this day, the remnants of slavery still remain – be it through institutionalised racism or the police brutality running rampant in the US. Miss Juneteenth star Nicole Beharie: ‘Black people are not monolithic’ 2020-09-26T04:00:00Z

After a nod to the actual hotline referenced in the title, the bulk of the video’s five minutes features Drake, bathed in candy-colored light, dancing against a stark background. Drake's 'Hotline Bling' Video Inspired Some Incredible Dancing Memes 2015-10-20T04:00:00Z

A stark, white-tiled space with an austere, industrial feel — warmed up only slightly with artwork featuring Key West elements such as a watercolor of a green parrot. In Old Town Key West, a Hotel with Artsy Aspirations 2016-03-11T05:00:00Z

Was it because of the disconnect between a summit that concentrated on women’s empowerment via maternal health and neonatal outcomes while a line of women utterly disempowered by their spousal status was considered too stark? The G7 was the final straw – world leaders’ wives should refuse to travel with their spouses 2019-08-28T04:00:00Z

Thus, the news of Stuyvesant's admissions comes at a unique time where the nation more broadly has been debating the stark structural inequities of education in America. The entrenched segregation of New York City's public high schools 2019-03-23T04:00:00Z

Mr. Graham, with the work’s stark conclusion, leaves you feeling like a simplistic ninny for ever thinking it might have been. Review: A Scalding Take on Race in ‘White Guy on the Bus’ 2017-03-17T04:00:00Z

Any TV series worth sticking with melds stark realism with fantasy and the denial of that reality. “The Bold Type,” “Dietland” and fashion: The feminist army is assembling (literally) in t... 2018-06-13T04:00:00Z

I really feel that books like that are in such stark opposition to our culture, our desire to make everything we read about hope and affirmation. “Obviously, we all die”: On rejecting the cult of positivity and embracing the joy of darkness 2016-04-19T04:00:00Z

It's always adventurous — and always approachable, whether in its beauty or in its stark drama. Paul Taub's 'Edge': local flutist explores periphery of Europe 2011-11-03T20:00:10Z

The album concludes with “Time, as a Symptom,” which opens with birdcalls and Ms. Newsom alone, singing to stark piano chords. With ‘Divers,’ Joanna Newsom Is Clinging to Her Every Word 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z

Though its premise about the need for human connection is hardly unexplored, Hoult and Stewart deliver passionate performances, and the stark, monochromatic visuals offer an aesthetically pleasing, if frightfully cold, picture of the future. The Best Movies at the 2016 Tribeca Film Festival 2016-04-27T04:00:00Z

With a title as stark and gloomy as "The Girl and Death," it's no surprise that sitting through much of this polished period drama evokes watching paint dry. Wistful 'The Girl and Death' is worth the wait 2014-05-23T04:00:00Z

One of the starkest markers of Gen Z to date is the sharp rise in reported mental health issues. Who are Generation Z? The latest data on today's teens 2016-12-10T05:00:00Z

One question I'd like him to pursue more rigorously: How does this life, in all its stark difficulty and glory, reflect on the state of the nation today? Through 'Hamilton,' the Founding Fathers might once again make history 2015-03-06T05:00:00Z

Their contrasts could be stark — blue and yellow, or red and white — or subtle, as with two shades of gray. Ellsworth Kelly, an Artist Who Mixed Abstract With Simplicity, Dies at 92 2015-12-27T05:00:00Z

Though the set list skewed toward more recent material, the tone was still stark and abraded. Review: The Weeknd Fills a Brooklyn Arena With Moody Gloom 2017-06-07T04:00:00Z

Shortly after graduating from Havana’s distinguished Instituto Superior de Arte in ’91, she switched to working only in black, white and gray largely because the stark palette heightened the drama in her prints. The late Cuban artist Belkis Ayón's mysterious world unfurls at the Fowler Museum 2016-09-23T04:00:00Z

Helmut Newton, whose work appeared in magazines including Playboy, Elle and Vogue, is best known for his stark, black-and-white nude photos of women. Helmut Newton exhibit set to open 2011-07-02T23:16:04Z

“Off Brand” then turns back to Chuck, and I found the transition a stark reminder that “Better Call Saul” is now two very separate shows. ‘Better Call Saul’ Season 3, Episode 6: Brick by Brick 2017-05-15T04:00:00Z

“All of us, however, would like to imagine that we’re contributing in some small way to keeping the world orderly. Then comes along a stark reminder to the contrary.” For Marilyn Stasio, Any Place Can Be the Scene of the Crime 2018-08-03T04:00:00Z

“Affairs of the Art” finds Beryl stark nude and painting herself blue. ‘The 2022 Oscar Nominated Short Films’ Review: Small Tales, Big Ideas 2022-02-24T05:00:00Z

Oftentimes with the specific issue of abortion, again I felt that women – around the controversial question of abortion, women are asked to take very stark positions about what the experience is. A memoir of female lust 2013-06-09T00:00:00Z

Jack gasped, and so did I. I wasn’t prepared for the stark reality of it. Motherlode: Talking to Children About Tragedy 2011-07-19T14:51:45Z

The characters’ hushed tones and calm demeanors stand in stark contrast to the Big Acting that creeps into many thrillers, even ones as relatively low-key as “The Americans.” ‘The Bureau’ Is an International Hit. Why Did Its Creator Hand It Off? 2020-06-17T04:00:00Z

He moved to New York in the early 1990s and soon, working late at night, was painting stark black-and-white figures on walls all over Lower Manhattan. Street Art That?s Finding a New Address 2010-03-03T23:13:00Z

If fear hasn’t worked yet, then perhaps we need even more dire images, even starker warnings. Perspective | The photos of Greece on fire are shocking. But shock doesn’t always lead to change. 2021-08-09T04:00:00Z

The stark planes and bulges of his face created a veritable Easter Island statue of authenticity and plainness. A face we won't forget 2011-01-04T07:00:07Z

In the stark lobby, I was given a numbered key to a clothes locker upstairs. Heads Up: Japan?s Capsule Hotels Go High Tech and High Style 2011-11-18T17:19:32Z

There are some stark differences between the two; Saint was an avid reader from day one, while Ross was illiterate until he went to prison. FX's fearless "Snowfall" comes to a close: A perfect ending to an American horror story 2023-04-23T04:00:00Z

Lastarria’s winding cobblestone streets and regal architecture are a stark contrast to the glass-towered commercial districts to the east, where the majority of Santiago hotels are concentrated. In Santiago, a Regal Old Neighborhood Opens Its Doors 2017-06-02T04:00:00Z

And it's honestly just a fact, and it could feel just like your raw and stark desire. Can women be saved from bad sex? "Finding your desires is a conscious process," says author 2022-09-03T04:00:00Z

Mr. Schoenherr was known early on as one of the few commercial illustrators to work mainly on scratchboard, which gave him stark blacks and whites and a level of fine detail that recalled Renaissance woodcuts. John Schoenherr, Children?s Book Illustrator, Dies at 74 2010-04-15T02:42:00Z

Yet nothing turns out as expected in this tense, beautifully acted movie, which is set against the stark, desolate beauty of Sicily in and around Palermo. Critic’s Notebook: New Directors/New Films Highlights Include ‘Fish & Cat’ 2014-03-24T22:13:52Z

Their stark shapes, depicting disembodied legs, wandering eyeballs, a hungry triangle and a happy circle, keep seriousness at arm’s length — without diminishing Minoliti’s ambitions, which are big. Your invitation to dreamland awaits at Ad Minoliti's exhibition at Cherry and Martin gallery 2017-09-30T04:00:00Z

Motley would remember her experiences as a Black girl in Connecticut in stark contrast to what she later saw in the South. ‘Civil Rights Queen,’ the Story of a Brave and Brilliant Trailblazer 2022-01-26T05:00:00Z

“The stark truth is that overweight and obese children face numerous, serious health-related problems – both physical and mental – in the years ahead, if their weight is not addressed,” she added. Risk of obesity can be accurately predicted in babies, study finds 2019-05-01T04:00:00Z

They are always written with incredible empathy, each word balm for the stark, stinging loneliness that the experience of motherhood can inspire – the state of being always and never alone. Why the 'open letter to mothers' trend needs to stop 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z

Giamatti: Their success is so stark: It’s measured in if you won or lost. Paul Giamatti and Ethan Hawke break down their good cop/bad cop roles in “The Phenom” 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z

Racism in America can be stark and brutal, but it isn’t always simple. ‘Queen & Slim’ Review: Love on the Run 2019-11-26T05:00:00Z

Sometimes, the top of the heap is dusted with stark white powdered sugar, rendering the cake an ideal mix of rustic and refined. The autumnal apple stack cake is rich in flavor and Appalachian folklore 2022-10-15T04:00:00Z

They paint a stark picture of weakened enforcement divisions, lacking both necessary staff and funding, that regularly close claims of wage theft that appear legitimate. The wage theft epidemic 2013-02-20T16:00:00Z

The film sometimes piles the pathos on a little too thickly, but it ends on a note of stark realism. Television Review: ?The Sound of Mumbai: A Musical? - Review 2011-11-22T23:20:20Z

But what made the performance riveting was his stark evocation of the character’s loneliness and pain. Eric Owens as Alberich in Wagner?s ?Ring? at the Met 2012-02-18T05:03:04Z

It’s a brutally candid portrayal of addiction and a stark reminder to stop imagining that your life is infinitely worse than the lives of all your Facebook friends. Here Are TIME's Most Anticipated Movies of Fall 2016 2016-09-19T04:00:00Z

The picture it paints, especially in his remake of Wale’s “Ambition,” is stark. The Playlist: Thundercat Unplugs, Young M.A. Gets Remixed 2016-08-26T04:00:00Z

The request for privacy was in stark contrast to their accessibility to the public over the previous two days. William, Kate try to carve out some private time 2011-04-30T21:31:49Z

Trump’s war has a stark flip side: It’s rather one-sided. Trump’s ‘war’ with the media (and the facts) forces journalists to question their role 2017-01-26T05:00:00Z

The video echoes the message of “Alright,” enhanced by stark images of the police’s relationship with black America. Watch Kendrick Lamar's Provocative New Music Video for 'Alright' 2015-06-30T04:00:00Z

There are also stark pictures of a wheelchair and a bottle of epilepsy medication, each given Warholian low-resolution treatments. Review | In the galleries: Exploring how body language is a visual form of communication 2021-06-09T04:00:00Z

It was a stark contrast to the orchestra’s playing in the concerto, which was off-kilter much of the way through. Maxim Vengerov Performs With the Philharmonic 2015-01-23T05:00:00Z

The juxtaposition between Adams and Beck, one of rock’s all-time reasonable men, was stark. Rebound, rediscovery, rebirth: How Jenny Lewis made her best album in more than a decade 2019-03-14T04:00:00Z

This smaller acorn-shaped squash has also been dubbed the “pepper squash” for its stark resemblance to the vegetable. Want to taste the flavors of fall? Add these 7 chef-approved squash to your grocery list 2023-10-08T04:00:00Z

“They used culture. They distributed culture. Cinema, music, flags, banners, book burnings, rallies, and holidays were all deployed in a phantasmagoria of stark blood red, swastikas, and blinding white.” Curator Nato Thompson shines a light on art and the culture wars in 'Culture as Weapon' 2017-03-22T04:00:00Z

As we see our four leads engaged in lively conversation at a trendy restaurant, Howard intercuts between gorgeous close-ups and stark black-and-white credits. Hear me out: why The Dilemma isn't a bad movie 2021-02-26T05:00:00Z

The starkest answer offered by Johab Silva’s show at Transformer, “Profiling: I Want Order,” is a wall covered by a series of charcoal drawings of interlocking metal links. In the galleries: Finding new ways to take in the natural world 2017-01-12T05:00:00Z

Meanwhile, even the milder voices reveal stark differences of detail. What to say about ... Design for Living 2010-09-20T11:47:00Z

In keeping with the buttoned-down look of the show, it was held in a former bank building, a stark contrast to the whimsical herb garden recreated for the Chanel show a few hours earlier. Armani pairs stern tailoring with vibrant colors for Paris show 2020-01-21T05:00:00Z

As they twist — creating stark shapes similar to those in the 1930 solo and eventually writhing out of their costumes — a couple, straddling each other on a bench behind the others, contort like a pretzel. Dance Review: Martha Graham Dance Company at the Joyce Theater 2012-03-14T22:27:56Z

Florence von Gerkan’s costumes are wonderful, stark, bizarre — cutting, like the music, a wide swath through the Renaissance, geometric abstraction and contemporary references like the Batman symbol. Review: ‘Theater of the World’ Journeys With a Polymath 2016-05-08T04:00:00Z

The show’s design is strategically stark, rendered exclusively in black, white and red. | 'Being Harold Pinter': Political Theater, Brought to You by the Politically Powerless 2011-01-06T23:29:42Z

It is still somewhat stark, made tough by its untempered repetitiousness, but it has a quality of conception, proportion and detail that is streets ahead of almost any other new luxury apartment block. One Hyde Park ? review 2011-01-23T00:05:43Z

A mix of stark harmonies, Baroque references and vibrant folk-derived rhythms, the piece emphasizes the text’s qualities of wrath and dejection. Music Review: Trinity Choir Performs Works Based on the Book of Lamentations 2014-03-11T22:00:28Z

It was not the room itself, which was plain and penitentiary stark, faintly perfumed with Pine-Sol and which cost, as I remember, $27 a night. My Life in Hotels 2011-12-02T14:36:36Z

In his “Notes From the Caucasus,” the stark and appalling descriptions of what he saw on the Eastern Front recall Goya’s famous etchings of the disasters of war. Review | A fascinating look inside the journal of a controversial German war hero 2019-01-16T05:00:00Z

The next night, my friend and I visited Chapel Bar, a lively spot with opulent chandeliers, stark concrete walls and Victorianesque velour couches. Drinking in Berlin’s traditional, yet iconoclastic, cocktail-bar scene 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z

Bayreuth festival bayreuther-festspiele.de Dressed in jeans and polo shirt, the attire of the co-chief of Germany's Bayreuth festival could hardly be in starker contrast to that of the high society event's standard dress code. The battle for?Bayreuth 2010-08-23T20:46:00Z

She read to him poems from “Ariel,” notably “Death & Co.,” that left him awed and startled by her stark references to death and inescapable sense of finality. A Alvarez, poetry critic and best-selling author, dead at 90 2019-09-24T04:00:00Z

Downstairs, there’s a larger dining room, albeit equally stark in lighting and mood. At Nepali Bhanchha Ghar, Splendor Comes Served on a Plate 2018-08-16T04:00:00Z

The arrests were a stark contrast to the clash that occurred in New York two weeks ago when nearly 700 protesters were arrested on the . Protests give city trial run for summits 2011-10-17T03:33:00Z

Larry’s comment was as a perfect pull quote and we ran it on the center spread, in stark white type, against an ominous Albert Watson portrait of Kramer. Bill Clinton’s LGBT shame: Where was he then? 2014-02-01T17:30:00Z

For this investigation into the stark realities of end-of-life care on the NHS, three terminally ill patients have agreed to let the cameras follow their dying days. Tonight's TV highlights 2011-02-28T08:00:02Z

The confidence, tempered with respect, with which Nichols approached “Loving” stands in stark contrast with the pained ambivalence many white artists have experienced as they’ve considered whether to bring black stories to the screen. White filmmakers, black characters and the fear of cultural appropriation 2016-11-11T05:00:00Z

So sharply, in fact — the contrast so stark compared to what you were going through at the beginning — that you may find yourself highly emotional. Sign Language: Horoscopes for people oblivious to Astrology 2016-10-15T04:00:00Z

Her style of writing — stark and sometimes poetic — befits her subject. Review | Qandeel Baloch was a social media star in Pakistan. A new book explores her life and murder. 2020-02-05T05:00:00Z

I appreciate that everything is occurring in N’s stark midnight of the imagination. Review: Remembering What Was and Wasn’t in ‘Good Grief’ 2018-10-31T04:00:00Z

But as stark as the differences between De Niro and Apatow, the yuck-filled conversation, if anything, proved the blurring of genre lines. De Niro, Apatow worlds collide at Tribeca 2012-04-20T01:02:24Z

In stark contrast to the ballroom world, here they could wear their heels, and follow as well as lead, without anyone blinking. A Walk in Their Heels: Meet the Hustle Evangelist 2022-07-07T04:00:00Z

I was surprised by how much I wanted the opposite — something very stark and truthful on the nature of grief. Times Critics Discuss 2020 in Books, From ‘Pandemic Blur’ to Favorite Discoveries 2020-12-02T05:00:00Z

So this island doesn’t seem stark and alone in the middle of the room, the same color was repeated in simple window shades. 15 Beach-Style Decorating Ideas 2010-03-13T00:22:00Z

The first thing I handed in was a lot starker, I would say, and a lot bleaker. On ‘Promising Young Woman,’ consent, and a harrowing ending 2021-04-14T04:00:00Z

Step into the main exhibition hall at CB1 Gallery in downtown Los Angeles and you will see a series of stark, practically Martian landscapes illuminated by blacklight. Moment of Friday: Hagfish hanky-panky, Lily Simonson's oceanic obsession 2014-09-19T04:00:00Z

Set against the stark backdrop of Nevada, these stories tap into rich veins of brutality and tenderness. New Books by Claire Vaye Watkins, Marie NDiaye and More 2012-08-29T21:12:46Z

The serenity of the fifth movement Andante is in stark contrast to the whirlwind of the exuberant finale. 2010-01-11T07:05:00Z

In stark contrast to the dream of free universal education, only 50% of school age children were enrolled in school. Haiti survivors 2010-07-10T23:05:00Z

But the contrast in how they are remembered in their home countries is stark. Japanese woman abducted by North Korea an icon, but South Korean husband forgotten 2014-07-02T04:00:00Z

This stark dramatic high point comes early, and it’s never quite equaled, which is why if this is a Shakespeare work, it’s a secondary one. Review: ‘Double Falsehood,’ and Just Maybe a Double Byline 2016-03-18T04:00:00Z

Given the stark differences on display this week, it was startling to hear Martins say after the proceedings that military commissions “like federal court and courts martial” provide a fair system of justice. Memorial for America’s conscience 2012-05-24T20:20:00Z

As the light gets starker, there seem to be two parallel realities: a trio of uneasy sleepers on top of the benches, and remembered figures from their pasts down below. UW's Chamber Dance revives haunting 'Hold' 2011-10-14T17:23:04Z

The track begins with a stark, traditional Puerto Rican beat, a bomba, as Bad Bunny praises the island’s people, culture and spunk. In 2022, Latin Pop Thrived on Innovation. Again. 2022-12-22T05:00:00Z

Enjoy it for the bleakly beautiful mountains and the stark lava deserts. Movies 2014-07-21T04:00:00Z

For all its stark lines and modern appurtenances, its whirr of data in mid-process, it too is an archaicism, two centuries behind the times. "The Matrix" is basically a sci-fi "Office Space" 2018-07-15T04:00:00Z

Hardwell made his set seesaw between earnest vocals and stark, stomping beats; Tiesto modulated smoothly, playing what sounded like one long anthem with a parade of different vocalists. Critic’s Notebook: Electric Zoo Festival Cut Short by Two Deaths 2013-09-01T22:23:22Z

His 584-page book is in stark contrast to second favourite Julian Barnes, a Man Booker bridesmaid – shortlisted three times – who makes the list with his 150-page book, The Sense of an Ending. Debut novel by former warehouseman wins place on Man Booker longlist 2011-07-26T19:23:35Z

But few stage adaptations are capable of translating so effectively the stark horror of this cautionary classic. Orwell's '1984' has never seemed so current and terrifying as on the Broad Stage 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z

On the surface, it is a stark contrast to the Irving Plaza gig. Heavy Metal Rocker Now Lifts Spirits as the Yogi Raghunath 2012-11-14T21:39:45Z

He recently assembled this cross-generational band, which plays his music with a flaying intensity and a stark sense of purpose that matches the name. 13 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-06-21T04:00:00Z

The question facing Lincoln is stark: Should he abolish slavery, once and for all, even if it means prolonging the war? Movie Review: ‘Lincoln,’ by Steven Spielberg, Stars Daniel Day-Lewis 2012-11-08T13:00:00Z

This seemed a lot easier when we were all in our 20s — even though we were doing well then, too, the difference didn’t seem so stark. Carolyn Hax: Better off, but not wanting to brag

Wooden bleachers, arranged in the round, and a stark performance area covered only with artificial grass intensify the intimacy. Spare Times for Children for Oct. 23-29 2015-10-22T04:00:00Z

Willie Nelson contributed a stark acoustic “Yesterday,” though it’s not his first time covering the song. 'The Art of McCartney': The Making of a Massive Tribute Album 2014-11-25T05:00:00Z

The National’s version is starker: a stylized take on a wooden ship’s hull, which, as Anthony Tommasini observed in his review in The New York Times last week, aims for “psychological, not scenic, realism.” Critic’s Notebook: Britten’s ‘Billy Budd’ Has the Gay Closet as Its Subtext 2012-07-03T21:36:04Z

In one segment, she wears a boyish Hawaiian shirt and her signature dreadlocks, standing in stark contrast to the white, blond women in bathing suits who flank her. When Black Performers Use Their ‘White Voice’ 2018-07-10T04:00:00Z

In stark contrast, Charles Lang Freer made his money in Detroit from the manufacture of railroad cars, and was “reclusive, fastidious, idiosyncratic, lean in frame, with an immaculately groomed Vandyke beard.” How Asian art came to America: ‘The China Collectors’ 2015-03-11T04:00:00Z

There’s the stark contrast between the cultures and economies of the worlds a few miles apart; the different cultures and worldviews that affect even how policework is done. How ‘The Bridge’ Solved the Mystery (of How Not to Ruin a Murder Mystery Show) 2013-08-29T14:17:18Z

They serve as stark reminders that while slavery may have ended, it will take much more work and imagination to dismantle its legacy. 3 Art Gallery Shows to See Right Now 2021-11-03T04:00:00Z

The stark, monochromatic cover of "Is This Anything?" would look fresh from an Apple assembly line if not for the title's implied shrug. Seinfeld's bland new book "Is This Anything?" is $35 dollars' worth of ambivalence and old jokes 2020-10-15T04:00:00Z

The building is a stark — and welcome — departure from the neoclassicism for which D.C.’s architecture is known. Why the exterior of D.C.'s soon-to-open African American museum is an exciting sign of what's inside 2016-08-10T04:00:00Z

But the Baltimore artist’s beautifully stark pictures offer just one of many approaches to the medium in “Captured Light: Current Photographic Processes” at the BlackRock Center for the Arts. Review | In the galleries: An ambitious collage of works by regional photographers 2019-12-12T05:00:00Z

"The statement today paints a stark picture of a company in an increasingly rapid decline, with increased losses, falling like-for-like sales and soaring debt levels." HMV struggles to survive amid tumbling sales 2010-12-09T19:57:00Z

Inspired by vintage postcards that perpetuated stereotypes of Caribbean cultures, the stark black-and-white images mixed contemporary street wear with native Creole clothing to offer a modern vision of the Creole diaspora. A Fashion Visionary Reframing Creole Identity 2018-08-17T04:00:00Z

The disparity was starkest on movie sets, where women were hired to less than 4 percent of directing jobs. Hollywood’s Inclusion Problem Extends Beyond the Oscars, Study Says 2016-02-22T05:00:00Z

Behind a bare platform, austere photographic images were projected on a translucent screen, suffusing a stark black-and-white world in swirls of ambiguous gray. Music Review: In Philadelphia, an Operatic Portrait of a Stepmother for the Ages 2011-06-05T22:02:22Z

Mr. Edberg vividly captured the stark, wailing character of the opening section and the moments of wry humor later on in the piece, which blends tonal and atonal elements. Review: Tackling Bach, Debussy and Prokofiev at Spectrum 2016-01-20T05:00:00Z

There are some pictures in the Old Print Gallery’s impressive “Form, Light, Line: Architecture in Print” that are similarly stark. In the galleries: A meeting of lines in art and architecture

The value of “Rite” piano arrangements is their stark focus on the work’s harmonic strangeness and rhythmic sharpness. Music Review: ‘Rite of Spring,’ With Clanging Pianos and Drums 2013-06-14T20:18:20Z

Paul Brown's designs, which make much use of a revolving stage, a stark rotating screen and a single wintry tree branch, are at one with the constant invention in Britten's wonderful score. The Turn of the Screw ? review 2011-08-12T17:01:45Z

As the crisis deepens, and as Gummi devises a devious, illegal response to it — one that will also settle scores once and for all with his brother — the film takes on a stark, elemental power. Review: In ‘Rams,’ Brothers at Odds Face a Shared Threat to Their Livelihood 2016-02-02T05:00:00Z

This stands in stark contrast to most exploitation WIP films, which typically include a number of black women. Mad Max: Fury Road is less radical than its B-movie influences 2015-05-26T04:00:00Z

A ghost town itself, and a stark reminder of the devastation of the Spanish civil war, the town of Belchite is in the province of Zaragoza in north-east Spain. 10 of the best horror movie locations 2017-10-30T04:00:00Z

When the final notes receded, they left me with a stark craving for more, for a return into the amniotic embrace of sound. Musical Travel Companions for a Year of Going Nowhere 2020-11-26T05:00:00Z

It had the stark white walls and the sturdy, unremarkable furnishings of a hotel suite, and it smelled of cleaning solutions and wax. Bomber jacket wars: Stagecraft beats statecraft in the Trump White House 2017-04-19T04:00:00Z

The reality is starker, grittier and a bit depressing. Is Sarah Lucas Right for the #MeToo Moment? 2018-10-16T04:00:00Z

Van Hove and his production designer, Jan Versweyveld, created a stark set of one large empty room, completely encased by malevolently violet walls and carpeting. Review: Timeless greed stars in 'The Little Foxes' 2010-09-22T19:44:00Z

The inside is stark white fondant, with the texture of a peppermint patty. The London guide for chocolate lovers 2015-09-03T04:00:00Z

This stark, beautiful novel, translated from the Norwegian and perfectly pitched for the present moment, follows one family living in isolation on a small, windswept island. New & Noteworthy, From Alexander Calder to a History of Poetry 2020-04-14T04:00:00Z

The contrast was at its starkest in the encore. Music Review: Jordi and Ferran Savall at Morgan Library & Museum - Review 2011-10-14T23:05:59Z

Women in the 17th century were pioneering being rather modern and independent, in stark contrast to Cromwell's cloaked Puritan ladies. It's a good week in television for pioneers 2012-05-18T23:05:00Z

That difference is especially stark in 1987, when the book is set, the stock market is about to crash, and the rich kids regard their Rodins and Renoirs as financial assets. Books of The Times: ?The Starboard Sea,? a Novel by Amber Dermont 2012-02-28T23:57:01Z

Brando Skyhorse’s memoir, “Take This Man,” is written with such velocity and stark recollection that it feels as if the author is writing to save his life. Brando Skyhorse’s memoir of surviving his wacky mother is harrowing and humorous

In stark contrast to large-scale, mechanized modern mining operations, the gold mines of La Rinconada are, Finnegan writes, “small, numerous, unregulated, and, as a rule, grossly unsafe.” Digging for Gold in the Andes 2015-04-13T04:00:00Z

The collection was well thought out, with its stark black coats, perhaps wrapped in straps, lighter gray tailoring and then an injection of electric blue. Special Report: Fashion: Gucci at 90: Heritage With an Edge 2011-01-17T19:00:11Z

At one time, the stark lighting effects of the German Expressionists were the visual rage. Hollywood’s Turn Against Digital Effects 2016-01-20T05:00:00Z

The list also throws Hollywood’s entrenched racial biases into stark relief, with only one non-American actress making the list — Chinese actresses Bingbing Fan — and no American women of color making the cut. Not surprisingly, the list of Hollywood’s highest-paid actresses puts the industry’s race and gender bias in stark relief 2015-08-20T04:00:00Z

When the member of Rae Sremmurd followed it up with “No Type,” it offered a stark reminder of everything Post Malone aspires to and brazenly imitates. Review | Post Malone is the perfect pop star for this American moment. That’s not a compliment. 2018-10-30T04:00:00Z

It’s a stark contrast to the “Bachelorette,” where a black contestant has never made it past the fifth episode. “The Bachelor” still so white: “UnReal” and “Finding Prince Charming” break new ground — why is the premiere dating show stuck in the past? 2016-07-13T04:00:00Z

But I first saw the town just as Salter’s narrator did: “ … in the distance, against the streaked sky, a town appears. A single, great spire, stark as a monument: Autun.” James Salter’s ‘Blue, Indolent’ Corner of Burgundy 2018-06-05T04:00:00Z

But on the punchpot, destined for export to the new nation across the Atlantic, Washington was depicted as dignified, even statesmanlike — not, she said, as “a stark raving mad general.” Ah, Tea. So Relaxing. But Its History Is Another Story. 2020-03-08T05:00:00Z

“They pop on a gray much better than on a stark, stark white.” A frame of reference for displaying art

Husband-wife duo Martin Martin, inspired by the idea of deconstruction, showed a collection in all white, gray and black; each piece stark, modern and sculptural. L.A. struts its stuff 2011-03-21T19:09:59Z

The later Rattle moulds the great paragraphs of the Brahms Piano Quartet in a way that tends to blur its outlines and undermine the stark grandeur that emerges so powerfully in the earlier performance. Schoenberg: Accompaniment to a Film Scene; Chamber Symphony; etc ? review 2011-08-25T21:15:02Z

They may be cartoon bad guys, representing the corporate chill of a gangland Walmart, but the dynamic between them and the Solversons is one of stark contrasts. ‘Fargo’ Season 2, Episode 6: Defending the Common Man 2015-11-16T05:00:00Z

Adora’s iciness runs in stark contrast to her love of these overwrought feminine details. Deep cuts: how Sharp Objects offers up a radically dark view of women 2018-07-06T04:00:00Z

Proulx’s sophomore novel, “We All Love the Beautiful Girls,” opens with a sex scene whose heat makes for a stark contrast to the frigid Quebec winter in which the narrative’s pivotal moments take place. Three Canadian Novels Test the Bonds — and Boundaries — of Family 2018-10-12T04:00:00Z

In its original incarnation, on the most recent Coldplay album, “Everglow” is a piano ballad tastefully padded with sonic accouterments: electric bass, pealing guitars, stark and unobtrusive drums. The Playlist: The xx Return in a Brighter Mood 2016-11-11T05:00:00Z

Taken together, “Life After Life” and “A God in Ruins” present the starkest possible contrast. Kate Atkinson’s ‘A God in Ruins’ 2015-05-04T04:00:00Z

Most of the performance was set in a dilapidated house, a stark contrast to the glamorous if grunge-influenced outfits designed by Balenciaga. A Kurt Cobain Opera Examines the Myth, Not the Man 2022-10-07T04:00:00Z

The starkest apparent point of contrast between the the two candidates is how they describe themselves ideologically. The Democratic Presidential Debates: The Candidates in The New Yorker 2019-06-26T04:00:00Z

The resulting images are stark and haunted, American Gothic: Florida Edition. Premonitions of a Florida Ravaged by Climate Change 2017-05-19T04:00:00Z

A Lawrence painting of lynching is very different, stark: a noose hung from a knife-blade of a branch against a blank sky. Review: ‘One-Way Ticket’ at MoMA Reunites Jacob Lawrence’s Migration Paintings 2015-04-02T04:00:00Z

This stark, nuanced work is both of its own world and a reflection of the greater one. Review: In New Batsheva Work, Dance It Once. Then Repeat With Variations. 2019-03-28T04:00:00Z

Confronted, like Burstein’s tourist, with the stark conditions for human beings desperately in need of shelter, you are asked, as you sit in the Broadway Theatre, where “Fiddler” is running, not to look away. Who is an American? Look to the current crop of musicals to tell you. 2016-01-29T05:00:00Z

His voice here isn’t so different from that of stark portraitists of unsung American lives like Sherwood Anderson and Edgar Lee Masters. Review: ‘Empathy School & Love Story’ Plumbs the Varieties of Loneliness 2016-04-22T04:00:00Z

There’s no word or phrase that names a mother who is wheeled to the hospital doors without her baby in her arms — just a stark picture. When a Grieving Mother Talks, Listen 2017-12-21T05:00:00Z

There are some great moments to it and no other show deals with death, dying, mortality and family in such a stark and honest fashion. One Mississippi: Tig Notaro bares her scars in intensely dark comedy 2016-09-09T04:00:00Z

Green Velvet served up techno as a stark, effective slam that was usually nothing but a beat. Critic’s Notebook: Moogfest 2014 Unfolds in Asheville, N.C. 2014-04-28T22:13:11Z

San Salvador, from the city of Saint-Salvadour in France, brought equal intensity with much starker means: six voices, two tom-toms and a tambourine. At Globalfest, Rowdy Sounds From Around the World 2020-01-13T05:00:00Z

“Places that are stark and devoid of detail are just as unnerving to us as spaces with way too much going on,” Augustin said, “so your best bet is to aim for moderate visual complexity.” Stressed out? Here are 10 science-backed design tips for bringing serenity to your home. - The Washington Post 2019-08-27T04:00:00Z

Somewhat stark beige rooms come with space heaters and blackout curtains for midnight sun. This 414-mile road to the Arctic Ocean is one of the world’s most remote highways 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z

In the most violent of circumstances, as "The Conduct of Life" indelibly dramatizes, aching tenderness can reside beside stark terror. María Irene Fornés, ever the teacher, continues to instruct 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z

Set designer Donald Eastman’s stark white backdrop of a slanted facade of Harlem flats nestled against the dark black tiled flooring, both looming large around a minimalistic concept that dwarfs the performers in the space. Review: Seattle Opera’s ‘Blue’ explores the effects of police violence 2022-03-01T05:00:00Z

The memorial was stark and moving, and the turquoise Isonzo River that cuts through Gorizia is lovely, but the castle, except for a few creepy faceless mannequins, was a bore. Vineyards by Vespa 2011-07-01T17:00:00Z

It’s a troubling suggestion, not least because of the stark divide that’s already emerged between countries willing to share those data points and those that aren’t. What Are Borders For? 2019-11-27T05:00:00Z

We dipped down into stark rock-faced valleys that looked like Afghanistan, and then climbed back up toward rolling countryside that looked like England, with fields divided by low stone walls. Cultured Traveler: On a Road Trip in Sicily, Churches Everywhere 2013-05-31T18:22:52Z

With balloons and streamers tied to them — colorful, happy things to counteract the stark hate of a swastika painted in black. My guilty-liberal response to a hate crime 2015-08-22T04:00:00Z

Ms. May, who took office earlier this month, is the starkest proponent of this. Hillary Clinton and Theresa May Herald a New Age in Power Dressing 2016-07-27T04:00:00Z

Initially, Williams sculpts the narrative around Edgar and Felicia’s stark differences, in the vein of a standard romance. An Unlikely Romance Blooms in a Hospital Room, Then Metastisizes 2020-04-21T04:00:00Z

Among the most stark and poetic of doomsday cinema is "The Road," based on the story by Cormac McCarthy about a man and his son traveling like vagabonds through a scoured landscape of post-Armageddon. 'Mad Max: Fury Road' an apocalyptic tale as old as man's existence 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z

Also, sadly, the fact that not a single male winner managed to reference #Metoo from the stage last night is a stark reminder that the boulder remains firmly at the bottom of the mountain. Golden Globes 2018: Why The Handmaid’s Tale and Big Little Lies had to win 2018-01-08T05:00:00Z

Sometimes the contrast between word and action is stark — talk of wartime bereavement interrupting a group laughing fit — but more often the relationships are elliptical. Dance Review: Yvonne Rainer and Group at Danspace Project 2013-01-26T00:51:55Z

"So the music's often very stark. On 'Last Christmas,' there is a very simple foundation for the vocal and the melody to sit on." The soulful revenge of "Last Christmas," Wham!'s potent yuletide breakup song 2021-12-25T05:00:00Z

First graders act like first graders because the conscience of a 6-year-old sees right and wrong in stark, dramatized terms. Motherlode Blog: It’s Not a ‘Problem.’ It’s Called Being a Child. 2013-08-25T12:43:08Z

Pastels and candy colors — a departure for Bechdel — alternate with stark black-and-white pages. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-05-06T04:00:00Z

Her lyrics mix archaic language with modern vocabulary, sung in a distinctive, stark voice – which a critic for AllMusic.com described as "somewhere between Bjork and a handbrake". Joanna Newsom: 'Is it time for a glass of wine?' 2010-05-09T20:30:00Z

Adding to the resort atmosphere — and standing in stark contrast to Disney’s competing water parks — is an attached hotel called Cabana Bay Beach Resort. Taking the Plunge at the New Volcano Bay Water Park in Orlando 2017-05-30T04:00:00Z

Over a four-decade career, the Bay Area-based artist became known for a diverse range of stark abstract works that included paintings, collages and monumental wall sculpture. Datebook: An anniversary show, works by a key Bay Area artist, paintings that touch on ideas of home 2016-11-03T04:00:00Z

“Since our basement has only one window, I stayed away from stark whites and grays, which can look dreary without natural light. The use of taupes, beiges, browns and wood tones is inviting and warm.” Can a basement really be beautiful? 2015-06-23T04:00:00Z

Unexpected colors like fuchsia or mint green perk up his stark, monochrome palates. Playful and Sleek, With Subversive Twists 2010-08-02T14:35:00Z

In “a twilight’s song,” that meant plenty of octave leaping to capture the stark emotionality that underlies Cummings’s meditative verses. Music Review: Molding Sound to Behave Like a Solar Eclipse 2010-10-22T23:27:00Z

Looking up from the sidewalk, I was always conscious of this stark deadfall. My Rear Window 2014-12-29T05:00:00Z

Almost from the first page, Eli’s lolloping descriptions reveal each brother’s stark individuality, but also a compelling fraternal devotion and understanding. Review | ‘Boy Swallows Universe’ is a high-stakes coming-of-age story 2019-04-03T04:00:00Z

But the tentative “Tonight,” with its echoes of Heart, suggests the group is wary of making a ballad as stark and jaw-droppingly pretty as “Stay,” its 2007 single and biggest pop hit. Critics? Choice: New CDs 2010-10-17T22:25:00Z

His stark Shakespeare odyssey Forests, at the Barbican this month, offers no easy road to benediction. Carmen; the Manson Ensemble; the Nash Ensemble – review 2012-11-25T00:05:46Z

The point is one of a stark historical clarity: the rarity of stylistic change over the course of a jazz musician’s career. A Hidden Hero of Jazz 2015-09-21T04:00:00Z

“There’s something about Pageant that felt almost so strong and cheeky about that, but also stark.” An Artist-Run Dance Space That’s ‘All Presentation, Baby’ 2023-04-21T04:00:00Z

A stark divide has persisted between the growing urban middle class and an underclass with mostly nomadic roots. Fast and furious 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z

Inspired by the play’s stark dichotomy between “those above” and “those below,” they are trying to embody its levels and hierarchies. Who Needs a Shave? ‘Sweeney Todd’ Is Back. 2023-03-08T05:00:00Z

Scenes of ponds and mountain trails use a wide range of lively greens not seen in North Korea's stark political images. South Korea's 'Hidden Treasures' shows another side of North Korea art 2015-02-07T05:00:00Z

Set to Bach, with 16 dancers in black velvet, the work opens on a stark note: Quick falls, strident arms and runs dotted with tiny hops send lines of dancers spinning in agitated coils. Graham, Taylor, Cunningham: Three Titans. One Stage. One Night. 2017-03-17T04:00:00Z

The contemporary soundtrack Tagaq improvises for the film provides a stark juxtaposition between the old stereotypes and the modern reality of Inuit life. Feminist performance series brings Inuit throat singer Tanya Tagaq to the Broad 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z

And, as in his plays, it was there, in the starkest image of the night. Edward Bond: 'The most obscene thing I've seen recently is Slumdog Millionaire' 2010-04-30T13:43:00Z

In 2008, Mr. Ruby helped design a Tokyo boutique for Mr. Simons’s namesake label, spattering the stark white space with splashes of blue paint. This Artist Is Calvin Klein’s Latest Muse 2017-03-23T04:00:00Z

It was a stark contrast to how he had been portrayed on the show for the past several years. ‘Keeping Up With the Kardashians’ and addiction: It’s complicated 2015-10-14T04:00:00Z

Fallout was swift for Yale law professor Amy Chua after she published a stark essay in The Wall Street Journal exposing harsh words and heavy handed methods with her two teen daughters. Tiger mom's memoir meets ferocious roar 2011-01-13T20:50:09Z

Most of the areas we walked past were closed, from the stark basketball court, to the threadbare library, to the small fenced-in area designed for Native American spiritual practices. Teaching Jane Austen to sex offenders 2019-03-01T05:00:00Z

This models revolution, this draws flies to stark pools. The Homegrown Language of Les Murray 2019-05-01T04:00:00Z

There would be no corn or soybeans yet to ripple endlessly like an ocean, but she appreciated March’s stark earth and sky. David Foster Wallace’s Peaceful Prairie 2016-11-29T05:00:00Z

Simons, a minimalist, is in many ways the stark opposite of Christian Dior, the exuberant house founder who favored longer ankle-length silhouettes. Dior goes mini, in Raf Simons' debut ready-to-wear 2012-09-28T17:58:17Z

At the site, the grim, hulking reality of the prison stands in starkest contrast to the wide-open natural beauty of the surroundings. '@Large: Ai Weiwei on Alcatraz' a powerful meditation on repression 2014-09-26T04:00:00Z

The installation, which fills most of the smallest gallery at IA&A at Hillyer, is stark and grim. Review | In the galleries: An artist conjures images from oceans to a micro view of nature 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z

Because whether you've ever cared about an elderly person or just intend someday to be one, the stark, terrible truth of his testimony can't help but hit home. Mickey Rooney's heartbreaking elder abuse story 2011-03-03T21:04:00Z

She's obviously skeptical of it, but he has a stark affirmation that whatever he sees and perceives. Thomas Haden Church on his offbeat new "Acidman" role: "There is clearly something wrong with Lloyd" 2022-06-13T04:00:00Z

Forrer’s art starts in her mind’s eye, where stark portraits of simple people and common creatures drift into focus. What to see in L.A. galleries: street-art ethos, a mesmerizing digital canvas, wild tapestries 2016-12-02T05:00:00Z

For many, the interview served as a stark reminder of Kelly’s past criminal charges and cured many of their infatuation with the singer. Lady Gaga Replaces R. Kelly with Christina Aguilera On New Version Of “Do What U Want” 2013-12-31T17:14:48Z

Mr. Betts captures the stark brutality of prison life with chilling, matter-of-fact descriptions, and he evokes the hopelessness that accompanies many prisoners’ belief that all narratives end “with cuffs around all wrists, again.” Review: ‘Bastards of the Reagan Era,’ a Book of Poetry 2015-10-12T04:00:00Z

This revelatory performance was a reminder of how strange, elusive and full of stark contradictions this score actually is. Review: John Storgards’s Debut With the New York Philharmonic 2016-05-13T04:00:00Z

A great complement to the crowds and commercialism of Neuschwanstein is a hike up to the stark and brooding ruins of the Ehrenberg Castle ensemble, above the town of Reutte, Austria. A tale of two delightful castles, in Germany and Austria 2017-03-28T04:00:00Z

In his silkscreen paintings, Warhol took photographs and turned them into stark images of loss and death – as in his Tate masterpiece that shows the fading face of Marilyn Monroe. Andy Warhol lost then found: tender portrait of artist in 1981 2013-04-24T18:10:11Z

A piercing shot captures white men performing minstrel music in blackface, laying out a stark truth about appropriation and racism. 'The Birth of Rock and Roll': Book of found photos tells vivid history 2015-03-20T04:00:00Z

Noah Galloway and Sharna Burgess: After the high of watching Willow kill Mark in the Hunger Games arena, Noah’s most memorable year was a stark downer. 'Dancing With the Stars': A Walk Down Memory Lane 2015-04-06T04:00:00Z

The band's stark industrial funk and subterranean earthiness lit the way, if dimly. Label of love: 4AD 2010-03-17T13:37:00Z

Many are stark black-and-white images that combine words and pictures. David Lynch: Art cinema in trouble 2014-12-12T05:00:00Z

The straightforward photos are mostly in stark black-and-white and free of text; they offer no commentary on the scenes they capture. Review | In the galleries: Depicting an energy of constant fluctuation and growth 2021-06-17T04:00:00Z

The text messages were in stark contrast to her abiding memories of her daughter: “The best word for Emily was bubbly. She bounced into rooms always smiling.” Texts from student who killed herself shared across campuses 2017-11-24T05:00:00Z

That impression was so stark, I remember, that I used to swear every summer that I’d step in front of a bus before I would hit 40. I’ll be 47 this year. The boys of summer are men now — now what? 2016-09-02T04:00:00Z

Now businesses and apartments share the original 1929 vintage building with restored terrazzo floors, ornate plaster moldings and the original signs for “colored” and “white” drinking fountains — stark reminders of segregation. 36 Hours in Montgomery, Ala. 2018-05-03T04:00:00Z

Each tale is accompanied by ever-changing backgrounds — geometric or abstract, multicolored and multilayered — that place the shadow figures in stark relief. 'Tales of the Night': Striking visuals brighten animated vignettes 2012-11-15T21:32:05Z

The department initially claimed that the man, who is also white, “was injured when he tripped & fell” — a description that stood in stark contrast to a video of the incident. The duty and burden of the black police officer 2020-07-05T04:00:00Z

Given its charred landscape, the preserve can feel stark after a while, though climbing the Inferno Cone is a must for the panoramic views. A Rookie’s Road Trip Through Montana, Wyoming and Idaho 2015-06-30T04:00:00Z

“I wanted it to be in stark contrast to what the original context was,” says Silton. Olivier Messiaen wrote music in a Nazi prison camp. Artist Susan Silton has asked women to perform it 2017-06-14T04:00:00Z

That is why the imagery in "American Carnage" is so stark from the very beginning. "American Carnage" isn't about Donald Trump: "I don't think the Trumps are that interesting" 2019-07-06T04:00:00Z

But it’s precisely in these satisfactions that Miller’s vision turns from stark to thin. Ridin’ Dirty: “Mad Max: Fury Road” 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z

Considered one of the finest post-war German photographers, he was known for capturing Berlin's inhabitants and its concrete landscapes in stark black and white images. Photographer Michael Schmidt dies 2014-05-25T04:00:00Z

It began with a stark banjo riff before she confidently dove into the heat of things. Watch Carrie Underwood's Awesome CMT Performance 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z

It helps that the post-surgery results are not as stark as they once were. What Happened to That Comb-Over? 2021-09-10T04:00:00Z

Amiri’s brashness is in stark contrast to some of the luxury brands with whom he now competes, which tend to fetishize newness and intellectualize their approach. Are You Ready to (Dress Like You) Rock? 2018-01-18T05:00:00Z

My problem with the building was connected to its stark, crisscrossing white beams. The Ugly Truth 2015-12-16T05:00:00Z

A stronger reference point for “From,” with its rural twilight mood and underpinning of stark violence, is Stephen King. A Hot Time in the Haunted House 2022-03-04T05:00:00Z

Kill!”, a Meyer exploitation film that, in stark opposition to the director’s later works, featured no nudity. ArtsBeat: Tura Satana, Cult Actress, Dies 2011-02-07T02:23:34Z

The stark appearance and the at times gory narrative recall Scott’s “Alien” movies, depicting a perilous future for humanity. The Best Movies and TV Shows Coming to Netflix, Amazon and More in September 2020-09-01T04:00:00Z

As a young adult, I went to my first gynecology appointment alone, unprepared for the stark difference from seeing my pediatrician. Perspective | After surviving cervical cancer, I’m teaching my kids about sexual health to save their lives 2021-11-22T05:00:00Z

That said, earlier policies of building extensive but generally small-scale and dispersed public housing estates have ensured that color lines are generally less stark. Can cities desegregate? 2012-05-28T15:00:00Z

Often it felt faintly dutiful, in stark contrast to the urgency and unpredictability of the band’s instrumental outflow. Music Review: Umphrey?s McGee at Brooklyn Bowl - Review 2011-09-09T23:42:12Z

It’s this stark portrait of a brilliant and in many ways well-intentioned man who is building these larger and larger fortresses around himself, to separate himself from society. George Packer: Don’t CEOs have any shame? 2013-05-26T18:00:00Z

These choices were stark, but, then as now, a middle path offered itself. Seneca Could Have Written the Anonymous Times Op-Ed About Trump 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z

In stark contrast to his online persona, his mother said in a phone interview, “young Jerome was quiet, shy and constantly bullied. But he was always happy.” Jerome Jarre: the Making of a Vine Celebrity 2015-01-28T05:00:00Z

A voice-over sporadically chimes in with verse during “Tired Moonlight” — the words, by the poet Paul Dickinson, are gritty, stark, aching. Review: ‘Tired Moonlight’ Quietly Paints a Picture of Small-Town Life 2015-09-16T04:00:00Z

The sets are full of empty spaces interrupted by chaotic messes; the lighting is stark and the sound cacophonous. ‘Killers: A Nightmare Haunted House’ at Clemente Soto Vélez 2012-10-03T20:25:37Z

For decades, on and off, the poet Robert Lowell suffered from extreme bipolar disorder; he composed many of his best verses while stark raving mad. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z

It’s a stark reminder that the Maya aren’t just a forgotten people from the history books. Mexico’s mysterious Mayan ruins at Palenque, now accessible from the air

Huset’s staid interior was in stark contrast to the decadence of the plates. Greeting the New Year in Earth’s Northernmost Settlement 2019-12-30T05:00:00Z

And if not hope, the stark, bleak conclusion vividly depicted the barren aftermath of human interference in nature. Review: Alexi Kenney at Weill Recital Hall 2015-04-01T04:00:00Z

They perform a nuanced and eloquent cover of Wyatt's "Sea Song" tonight, voices and instruments saturating the air with sound, in stark contrast to the a cappella just one song earlier. The Unthanks 2010-06-05T23:06:00Z

The theatre company also staged a stark drama about gangs in the heart of a community affected by the child sexual exploitation case in Rochdale. Reality show 2012-09-28T05:00:01Z

It’s stark enough, yet this dance merely grazes the surface of emotions without ever penetrating them. Dance Review: Rioult Dance New York, at the Joyce Theater 2013-06-07T20:28:49Z

"Christ's Entry into Brussels in 1889" twists Georges Seurat's sunny French promenade, "A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte," from a celebration of middle-class vivacity into a stark indictment. LACMA's 'Expressionism in Germany and France' an edifying mix 2014-06-14T04:00:00Z

That inward response to powerlessness sits in stark contrast with the earlier punk aspects of queer culture, which Mitchell came up through. John Cameron Mitchell on Hedwig, Caitlyn Jenner and how 'queer' has changed 2018-06-21T04:00:00Z

It’s a stark contrast from the last time we saw her in the tub, two episodes ago, when she imagined herself drowning. Hannibal recap: season three, episode three – Secundo 2015-06-19T04:00:00Z

In the darkroom, he manipulated light to create effects that ranged from eye-catchingly stark to soothingly gentle to perplexingly peculiar. Ray K. Metzker, Art Photographer, Dies at 83 2014-10-10T04:00:00Z

Few choices have brought into starker relief the complicated dynamics of Mrs. Trump’s fashion choices, which, in the absence of many public statements, often are read as the clearest indication of her character. The Year in Stuff 2017-12-13T05:00:00Z

But Lithgow's performance "provides windows of shamed, quiet lucidity that allow us to connect, touchingly and fleetingly, with his stark, raving character." John Lithgow, Annette Bening open in 'King Lear' in Central Park 2014-08-06T04:00:00Z

Ms. Maguire, who is married, also wrote a stark breakup song, ”Gracefully.” Two Dixie Chicks Form Court Yard Hounds 2010-04-24T02:45:00Z

And in that ambiguity, the stark differences between here and there, presence and absence, the screen and the dance floor began to blur. Perspective | This is what our nightlife sounds like in a pandemic 2020-03-23T04:00:00Z

It was the first masterpiece done in the new medium of oil, and the first to portray the stark realism of the everyday world. Getting around the medieval yet very modern city of Ghent 2016-10-18T04:00:00Z

And sometimes, like on his rising hit, the stellar “Brothers,” his sweet, twisty vocals mask something far starker: The Playlist: Lana Del Rey’s Smoldering Return, and 12 More New Songs 2018-09-14T04:00:00Z

Ms. Radvanovsky has calmed a voice that used to have starker edges, though her tone is still chalky. After 31 Years, Farewell to the Met Opera’s Grand, Gaudy ‘Aida’ 2019-03-01T05:00:00Z