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I had rarely had reason to enter my father's room prior to this occasion and I was newly struck by the smallness and starkness of it. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z
There was a stripped-down quality to her life, a kindling starkness, without parents and friends and home, the familiar landmarks that made her who she was. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z
The starkness of the room seemed to heighten the natural warmth of the occasion. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z
Even though they were out of the wind, the room did not feel much warmer, and Pinmei was surprised by its starkness. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z
The starkness of the paradox is reinforced by the diction and meter: short, simple words, a stressed monosyllable followed by six iambic feet* Most people are never going to die. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z
Alongside the clutter there is a starkness about the place that appeals to him: the floors are bare, the woodwork stripped, many of the windows without curtains to highlight their generous proportions. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z
Compton develops a similarly bold repertory of images, replete with spectacular overhead shots, crane shots, and expansive landscapes, and ranging from closely textured complexity to graphic starkness. Juleen Compton, a Director and Actor Whose Career Was Tragically Overlooked 2019-06-19T04:00:00Z
Nothing in this report is new, but its sheer starkness supports the growing call for a more vigorous international response to the outbreak. ‘Frontline’: ‘Ebola Outbreak’ and ‘Hunting Boko Haram’ 2014-09-08T04:00:00Z
But Hill's memory is staggering in its starkness: “There we were in the back of that hearse, Mrs. Kennedy and me,” he says quietly. “JFK: One Day in America” restores the humanity to one of America's most dramatized tragedies 2023-11-05T04:00:00Z
Men’s wear this spring turned its back on the recent trend toward monochromatic starkness, embracing instead a lighter, more romantic mood. | Masculin, Feminin 2014-03-25T15:30:14Z
The funereal starkness of this presentation is not a natural TV attitude. At the Border, TV Networks Find Eloquence in Starkness, Speechlessness, and Disbelief 2018-06-20T04:00:00Z
“The ability to see beauty in winter starkness is less developed there.” In this season of austerity, there’s a cold sort of beauty in decorating with twigs 2020-11-30T05:00:00Z
Shot in Utica, N.Y., and boasting locations that set a high bar for starkness, “Clean” has some real craft, but doesn’t quite satisfy as it toggles between bloodbaths and bathos. ‘Clean’ Review: Taking Out the Trash 2022-01-27T05:00:00Z
Later, there was a shock in the starkness of strings bowed heavily in unison. Review: At the Philharmonic, a Conductor Is the Star 2022-03-04T05:00:00Z
Warwick Thornton Australian director Warwick Thornton has crafted a superb movie – Old Testament cinema, with an almost biblical starkness in its cruelty and mysterious beauty. Prowling panthers, paranormal spies and vengeful ice-skaters: must-see movies of 2018 2018-01-02T05:00:00Z
Mr. Maxwell’s early work, like “House” and “Caveman,” was notable for its starkness of speech and affectless acting style. Theater Review: Richard Maxwell’s ‘Isolde’ Explores Primal Instincts 2014-04-13T22:03:33Z
For all its punky starkness, Spoon is also a roots-rock band of sorts. Spoon plays it both tight and loose at Lincoln Theatre
Designed with customary starkness by Neil Patel, the king of clinical austerity, the play unfolds on a kind of reflecting pool. Terrific actors face off in "Gruesome" play 2011-02-01T03:36:14Z
Think of the street-level starkness of Italian neo-realist works like Bicycle Thieves or Battle of Algiers, or the disillusioned anxiety of 1970s American paranoia thrillers. Shooting the Iron Lady 2011-07-10T21:50:01Z
In these instants of history, the starkness and immediacy of Klemm’s style ideally matches the subjects. In the galleries: Images of history, in black and white 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z
But while starkness is certainly part of this landscape, the look and feel of the production doesn’t really have a solution for the way the hot, red, barely repressed passion turns all that snow scarlet. A cold winter in Lookingglass 'Ethan Frome' but not much blood running through the snow 2011-03-06T20:55:54Z
The best thing about it is its starkness. 2009-10-16T08:50:00Z
This starkness throws into sharp relief Chekhov's questions about artificiality, acting and the future of the theatre. The Seagull – review 2013-04-20T23:05:42Z
I like the starkness of it—sudden silence while he delivers that line. How Orson Welles’s “The Other Side of the Wind” Was Rescued from Oblivion 2018-09-26T04:00:00Z
The starkness of the setting, and even the reduced underscoring of the orchestra, suit the moment. | 'The Gershwins? Porgy and Bess': Audra McDonald in ?The Gershwins? Porgy and Bess? - Review 2012-01-13T03:01:13Z
Hearing authors read their own work can be as disenchanting as seeing an admired actor out of makeup in the starkness of daylight. Perspective | Diane Keaton and Ronan Farrow show the challenges of narrating your own audiobook 2020-04-13T04:00:00Z
Even his whites were distinct: the powdery starkness into which his high register dissolved in “Vertige,” and the milkier hue in the deliberate, steady lullaby of “White on White.” Review: Taka Kigawa Masters the Conflicting Rhythms of Ligeti 2016-05-17T04:00:00Z
I felt my cramped religious framework of false dichotomies and moral starkness beginning to collapse. When Eve and Eve Bit the Apple 2016-11-18T05:00:00Z
Central to “Così” is its cruelty, the starkness with which it exposes the tenuousness of romantic attachments — and, by extension, attachments altogether. 22 Musicals, Plays, Concerts, Dances and Festivals You Can’t Miss This Spring 2018-02-20T05:00:00Z
A series of scenes and monologues extracted from the Beckett play “Endgame,” it is a work of utterly assured starkness — confident and patient. The Best Classical Music of 2018 2018-12-05T05:00:00Z
The juxtaposition of starkness, abstraction and realism might have worked well had Mr. McVicar left it at that. Review: At Met Opera, ‘Pagliacci’ Goes Vaudeville as ‘Cavalleria’ Turns 2015-04-15T04:00:00Z
Something more primal, almost Greek in its archaic power, is at stake in “Winter’s Bone,” and its visual and emotional starkness do no not feel like simple badges of authenticity. | 'Winter?s Bone': Jennifer Lawrence in Debra Granik?s Bleak Ozarks Film 2010-06-10T21:59:00Z
The starkness of those findings shook the music industry and led to promises of change, like a pledge by record companies and artists to consider hiring more women in the studio. For Women in Music, Equality Remains Out of Reach 2021-03-08T05:00:00Z
On “Roses in Winter” Mr. Giddens created small, rumbling hail storms, adding notes of terror, saving the sisters from their starkness. Music Review: Chapin Sisters? Old-Timey Sound at Living Room 2010-08-03T22:00:00Z
Hunger pains aside, one of Mikkelsen’s biggest takeaways from the shoot was the starkness and savageness of the landscape around him. Mads Mikkelsen: ‘One word wrong and you're a dead person’ 2019-04-25T04:00:00Z
“You don’t want to be assaulted by that kind of starkness first thing in the morning or right before bed, which is when you spend the most time in the bathroom,” Ms. Giannetti said. Bathrooms: Pretty in Pink, Again 2010-12-30T00:05:36Z
All these efforts represent an attempt to bring the starkness and psychological depth of the best Vietnam movies — “The Deer Hunter,” “Apocalypse Now,” “Platoon” — to the treatment of World War II. Television: No Enchanted Evenings in This Pacific Warfare 2010-03-05T18:56:00Z
There is a simplicity or starkness with the imagery, quite intentionally. Seeing Beauty in 'Talking Heads' 2015-01-13T05:00:00Z
The opera extracts roughly half of the play, meaning we lose some of the slapstick circularity; what’s gained is starkness, each episode standing in harsh isolation. Review: A 92-Year-Old’s ‘Endgame’ Opera Is Patiently Perfect 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z
By contrast, the climactic confrontation between the quartet of lovers acquires the starkness of Greek tragedy as they are ranged en masse against each other. Companhia de Dança Deborah Colker: Tatyana – review 2013-02-01T14:42:58Z
Her voice, which once had a chalky, loud, unwieldy starkness of tone that excited many listeners but turned off others, has mellowed in recent years. Review: In the Met Opera’s ‘Medea,’ a Soprano Stands Alone 2022-09-28T04:00:00Z
I enjoy the starkness and quietness of drawings. Demetri Martin's new book of drawings is 'If It's Not Funny It's Art.' Do we have to pick? 2017-09-12T04:00:00Z
She, too, seems at home in this kind of milieu, but, revealingly, two of her most striking portraits stand out because of their starkness. Ida Kar: Bohemian Photographer, 1908-1974 ? review 2011-03-13T00:05:32Z
And while there’s plenty of humor, one moment stands out for its starkness: The dancers, on their hands and knees, find stillness, and the room falls silent. Review: ‘This Bridge’ Is an Audacious New Dance Work 2019-01-10T05:00:00Z
The first thing you notice as you enter it is the contrast between the starkness of the white slabs and the rough, uneven surface of the earth. | Diamond in the Rough 2013-05-08T17:01:53Z
The starkness and magnitude of Finkel's material demand an unerring control of tone. The human heart of the matter 2010-06-11T23:05:00Z
Alas, I missed it at its lush summer best, but even in late February, its mountainous landscape was beautiful in its snow-dusted starkness. A Warm Welcome in the Caucasus Mountains 2015-04-08T04:00:00Z
In the film, that integrity and careful emotional engagement are set against the industrial starkness of the prison building itself and its embedded silences – the drama plays out with no background music. Alfre Woodard: 'We want all those with a stake in the death row business to see this film' 2020-07-19T04:00:00Z
The impact of that “View,” which presented a Brooklyn longshoreman’s doomed family within the starkness of an ancient Greek amphitheater, was such that I feared that this “Crucible” would suffer by comparison. Review: In Arthur Miller’s ‘Crucible,’ First They Came for the Witches 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z
That’s what makes the election so difficult to reconcile — that and the starkness of the choice. Read Hillary Clinton's 'What Happened' in context and with an open mind. What she's written says something about America 2017-09-15T04:00:00Z
Mountain Man stands out in that scene, for the plainspoken beauty of its vocal blend and the spooky composure behind its starkness. Music Review: The 3 Women of Mountain Man, in Perfect Harmony 2011-08-01T21:27:08Z
It’s really about the starkness of the chair sitting there, on nothing. An ‘Our Town’ Image as Sturdy as a Chair 2017-10-13T04:00:00Z
The astonishing landscape of New Mexico gives the show a western-film starkness and scale. AMC's Breaking Bad: Elements of Style 2011-07-14T09:15:00Z
The suggestion is that Lifehouse, an operation that long ago found its working formula, has regrouped with a new starkness; that the stakes are somehow higher, and the payoff more grimly satisfying, than before. New Music: Big Boi’s ‘Vicious Lies and Dangerous Rumors,’ and Lifehouse 2012-12-10T23:17:11Z
He’s not afraid of starkness or silence, and he knows how to spin a good yarn. New Music: The Game, Eric Revis and Ryan Blotnick: New Albums 2012-12-24T22:49:33Z
Images such as this communicate layers of complexity with a starkness that while simple is never banal. A Season in the Congo; Too Clever By Half – review 2013-07-20T23:05:43Z
The results evoke both the wonder and the starkness, even harshness, of the natural world — as well as suggest, inevitably, the specter of the climate crisis. 5 Classical Music Albums You Can Listen to Right Now 2022-09-29T04:00:00Z
Yet some of the most striking entries in this nine-artist show express starkness or isolation. Galleries: Big Brother is watching 2015-11-19T05:00:00Z
There is snow on the ground, and this accentuates the starkness of the black-and-white footage. The Shuttered Lincoln Plaza Cinemas Is a Cultural Crime Scene 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z
While recalling the starkness of Greek tragedy, “Innocence” is also among the first operatic barometers of our globalized age’s travails. A Festival Has a Monumental Premiere (and Some Other Operas, Too) 2021-07-12T04:00:00Z
And Tea Alagic’s production, staged in front of a white wall, favors starkness and grand statements over the less glamorous work of slowly developing motivations and believable plot lines. | 'Lidless': ?Lidless,? a Guant?namo Play - Review 2011-10-07T00:28:35Z
"We wanted to draw the audience's attention to the starkness of his new reality," said Nolan. Behind the Scenes with Batman: The Making of Christopher Nolan's Trilogy 2012-07-20T12:00:42Z
Evans’s simple, forthright approach, his clean compositional geometry, and the optical clarity of his pictures underscore the camera’s potential to record and describe the world with a starkness that is, at times, astonishing. A Bygone Time Captured Through the Lens of Walker Evans 2016-03-15T04:00:00Z
The flickering density occasionally dissipates into starkness, and occasionally accumulates into driving motion. Music Review: Axiom Plays Boulez and Stockhausen at Alice Tully Hall 2014-04-21T21:49:17Z
The mountain has its own note, a subterranean C natural: “the note of death,” Mr. Wuorinen called it, part of the effort to restore more of the story’s ominous starkness. Charles Wuorinen Adapts ‘Brokeback Mountain’ as Opera 2014-01-24T19:26:19Z
Paradoxically, the starkness of Georgia's color line also made the city a welcoming haven for Black people fleeing the harsh poverty and racial violence of the Southern countryside. Atlanta, crucible of democracy: How the city's tortured history got us here 2023-09-04T04:00:00Z
And yet, like Douglass at the celebration of a near identical milestone, our hearts are heavy with the starkness of unfulfilled dreams, and the distance between founding ideals and faltering reality. Faith in a better future for Israel endures beyond the fallibility of the moment | Op-Ed 2023-04-24T04:00:00Z
Mr. Blake’s portrayal of one of the killers, Perry Smith, received major acclaim for his sociopathic starkness. Robert Blake, ‘Baretta’ star acquitted after wife’s killing, dies at 89 2023-03-10T05:00:00Z
The starkness of that statement was the truth in the deadline. Column: A more mature D'Angelo Russell is ready to help the Lakers 2023-02-09T05:00:00Z
The particular power of “Filmmakers for the Prosecution” is that it suggests what it must have been like to behold such images, in all their starkness and horror, for the first time. Review: The powerful 'Filmmakers for the Prosecution' shows how cinema held Nazi war criminals to account 2023-02-03T05:00:00Z
Through her decades working in local, state and national politics, Bass was able to assemble a coalition that reiterated the starkness of this difference between the candidates. How Karen Bass prevailed against Rick Caruso's $100-million campaign 2022-11-18T05:00:00Z
While the starkness of these numbers has stirred a push for a worldwide transition to a plant-based diet, the average American still eats 55 pounds of beef a year. What Does Sustainable Living Look Like? Maybe Like Uruguay 2022-10-05T04:00:00Z
Nowhere is the starkness of these candidates’ positions more evident than on abortion, which has become a much more urgent litmus test on the right since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. How a new class of Republicans could push America to the right 2022-08-11T04:00:00Z
Being forced to use simple language distils her experiences down to the bare truths, adding to their starkness. The five-year-old Ukrainian learning to love Scotland 2022-05-14T04:00:00Z
But the starkness of the language — “We hold that Roe ... must be overruled” — takes the issue out of the realm of the theoretical. Opinion | Democrats finally have a message. Will they seize it? 2022-05-03T04:00:00Z
“Incredible, right?” said expedition leader Lucho Verdesoto, as I lifted my camera to capture the scenery, almost lunar in its starkness. Advancements in polar sailing allow travelers to explore Antarctica’s little-visited areas 2022-03-03T05:00:00Z
The starkness of the heightened risk for older people has dominated life for many. As U.S. nears 800,000 virus deaths, 1 of every 100 older Americans has died 2021-12-13T05:00:00Z
The starkness of the Texas decision — and the prospect that the Supreme Court could overturn Roe next year in a case involving a 15-week abortion ban in Mississippi — has sharpened the issue. With Abortion Rights Under Threat, Democrats Hope to Go on Offense 2021-09-19T04:00:00Z
The black-and-white photography is tenderly textured even in its starkness, as evocative with a diaphanous curtain in sunlight as with people working at night, and the nature all around them. Review: 'Faya Dayi' observes rural Ethiopia and the crop that transfixes its people 2021-09-16T04:00:00Z
But Greg Fell is "surprised by the starkness" of what the council found in Sheffield. Covid: The 'working poor' are hardest hit, Sheffield study finds 2021-03-11T05:00:00Z
But the starkness of this physical change also carries the idea of something that’s much less clear cut, something about the people who live in these places. AP PHOTOS: Tsunami scars linger a decade later in Japan 2021-03-07T05:00:00Z
"And I find it impossible to believe that he is not reconsidering his position on this, given the starkness of the doubles standard that he is applying without even any effort to defend it." MSNBC host bashes democratic and republican senators for opposing president biden's nominees 2021-02-24T05:00:00Z
New Orleanians were already fleeing the city in advance of the storm, but the starkness of Ricks’ message was hardly lost on those who were straggling or wavering. Editorial Roundup: Louisiana 2021-01-13T05:00:00Z
There are many moments in “Caste” that bring you up short in the starkness of their truth. The American caste system 2020-08-23T04:00:00Z
That study was just highlighting the starkness of the political geography of the pandemic. Trump’s foul-weather gear 2020-05-28T04:00:00Z
With so few people about, and so many businesses closed, its starkness has called out to me in black and white. AP PHOTOS: Lockdown journey through a silenced San Francisco 2020-05-23T04:00:00Z
But there’s a lot to be said for Dylan’s humble original, its brevity and starkness capturing the same end-times intensity in a different way. Bob Dylan's 50 greatest songs – ranked! 2020-04-09T04:00:00Z
“He wanted the starkness and the coldness of that moment,” Newman said. Composer Thomas Newman's '1917’ score plays as an opera for both nerves and emotion 2019-12-30T05:00:00Z
These are always in warmer tones, while the present has a bluish starkness. Review: Greta Gerwig’s ‘Little Women’ is a new classic 2019-12-16T05:00:00Z
What “The Lighthouse” most resembles, though, in its severity and its starkness, is a silent French rarity, Jean Grémillon’s “The Lighthouse Keepers.” “The Lighthouse” Is Salted with Madness 2019-10-18T04:00:00Z
The starkness and coldness of Norway itself is embedded in the bones of Norwegian black metal. 'Before you know it, it's not a big deal to kill a man': Norwegian black metal's murderous past 2019-03-22T04:00:00Z
Take simplissime, a white bowl filled with puréed potatoes that channels nouvelle cuisine in its starkness. Review: Tesse is a Sunset Strip charmer that deserves more attention 2019-03-07T05:00:00Z
Suddenly the remoteness, and starkness of the environment becomes more apparent. In Magnificent Desolation 2019-02-24T05:00:00Z
They don’t glorify violence so much as lay bare the starkness of lives caught in a sequestered world of cruel codes and unforgiving pecking orders. Cultural Divide: How Alabama rapper Rubberband OG navigates racism and violence on his hometown streets 2019-01-03T05:00:00Z
Polling on the question shows that starkness of the dilemma — while impeachment is extremely popular among Democrats, the majority of Americans are against it by 51-33. Democrats have an impeachment dilemma 2018-12-11T05:00:00Z
Given the starkness of that reality, Alliss spent more and more time in the commentary booth, cementing a relationship with the BBC that had begun part-time in the early 1960s. The BBC's 'Voice of Golf' celebrates 50 years of Masters commentating — and has something to say about it - Golf Digest 2018-04-07T04:00:00Z
Some of the questions asked highlighted the starkness of the violence students felt they now faced. At fierce town hall, Florida survivors take NRA and politicians to task 2018-02-22T05:00:00Z
Bahloul said people didn’t talk a huge amount about U.S. politics, despite the starkness of it, because they didn’t want to get derailed. How the National Prayer Breakfast sparked an unusual meeting between Muslims and evangelicals 2018-02-08T05:00:00Z
It isn’t an easy listen, but Elverum conveys his grief with starkness and potency. The best albums of 2017: the full list 2017-12-05T05:00:00Z
As a now retired professional photographer I have to say that the black and white photos show the starkness of the situation. Opinion | Puerto Rico in the Dark 2017-11-04T04:00:00Z
But this “black” thing, in all its starkness, felt more striking. A moment that changed me: realising I was black | Micha Frazer-Carroll 2017-08-18T04:00:00Z
“Live flowers add color and take away from the starkness of the grates,” she said. Selling a Home in the City? Turn Those Quirks Into Assets 2017-01-20T05:00:00Z
I think subconsciously the starkness and simplicity of the cover image against a white background seeped into how I designed De La Soul Is Dead. The greatest record sleeves – as chosen by the designers 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z
The starkness is softened by a grove of 400 swamp white oak trees. We’ll never forget 9/11. How should we remember Ground Zero? 2016-09-09T04:00:00Z
“It’s my favorite place on Earth. I feel at home there, which is bizarre because it’s so arid. … The beauty is in its starkness.” The essential guide to all 59 U.S. national parks 2016-08-15T04:00:00Z
The immediacy and starkness of the contrast between the candidates obscures the historical realignment hinted at in their own biographies: she used to be a Republican and he used to be a Democrat. How Women Changed American Politics 2016-06-20T04:00:00Z
It was all the more powerful for its starkness. Alone in the Alps 2016-04-11T04:00:00Z
In every city and in every country there are poor parts, but America stands out for the starkness of its inequality. With so much poverty hidden in plain sight, you have to ask: is this still America? | Brigid Delaney 2016-03-20T04:00:00Z
I was struck by the starkness of the room: a postcard on the wall, a desk, a pen and a few sheets of paper, and that was about it – no books, computer or telephone. Barry Hines obituary: author of A Kestrel for a Knave 2016-03-20T04:00:00Z
But the starkness of “Brothers” highlights Mr. McCraney’s focused writing and his confidence in actors to deliver the lines while also savoring the silences. Two Reunions, Bittersweet and Foreboding, in ‘The Brothers Size’ 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z
Detroit’s socioeconomic decline and ensuing decay helped to grant the city’s music a cool starkness; Hamilton’s parallel slide manifested itself in the affection its electronic musicians have for that sound. Cold Ontario nights: the creative rebirth of Junior Boys 2016-02-04T05:00:00Z
Parents discuss the game beforehand and often there are customs, which wrap the starkness of winning or losing in ceremony. Should You Let Your Child Win at Monopoly? 2015-12-16T05:00:00Z
Rozita Green, chief strategy officer at the foundation, said the “starkness” of the disparities is a wake-up call. Achievement gap in D.C. starts in infancy, report shows 2015-12-10T05:00:00Z
Though there are strong support systems in disciplines such as MMA and boxing, in the end all that matters is the starkness of one fighter tangling with another. Ronda Rousey learned a painful truth: an unblemished career is extremely rare 2015-11-16T05:00:00Z
In the race for City Hall 2016, it might also revive some pretty basic class instincts and reinforce the starkness of the choice available. What is Zac Goldsmith's pitch to London voters? - BBC News 2015-10-02T04:00:00Z
The starkness of this language jumped out at me — “stalks” and, especially, “dehumanized,” a term we associate with subjects of nefarious experiments or victims of unspeakable abuse. Re-Re-Re-Reintroducing Hillary Clinton 2015-07-15T04:00:00Z
The starkness of that demand has been enough to create some measure of change, purely by creating an atmosphere of awareness and constant urgency around an issue that was previously ignored. ‘Our Demand Is Simple: Stop Killing Us.’ 2015-05-04T04:00:00Z
The starkness of the source material was replaced by black comedy. Getting to know Dr Strangelove thanks to author Peter George 2015-03-29T04:00:00Z
What is extraordinary about this choice is its starkness, of course, but also that in a democratic society we are making it without benefit of an informed, full-throated debate. What would Paul Krugman do: Imagining the plan which defeats the ultra-rich 2015-03-29T04:00:00Z
The starkness of these accounts prompts some questions. Police Dog Bites Black Man 2015-03-18T04:00:00Z
The very incompleteness of the verses can heighten the starkness of the emotions—a fact that a number of contemporary classicists and translators have made much of. How Gay Was Sappho? 2015-03-09T04:00:00Z
Even many conservatives have conceded the need for a review, given the starkness of the case. After the Eric Garner Decision | The New Yorker 2014-12-07T05:00:00Z
The starkness accentuated posture and gesture, which he manipulated to dramatic effect. See How Egon Schiele Cast Portraiture In His Own Image At This Exhilarating Neue Galerie Art Exhibit 2014-10-31T04:00:00Z
The beautiful starkness of Parker’s recording – the space he creates – allows the song to breathe. Beatles cover versions: 10 of the best 2014-10-01T04:00:00Z
Chance’s sparkling flow is a perfect match to the starkness of Blake’s production work. Music's finest odd couples, from Gaga and Tony Bennett to MJ and Macca 2014-09-23T04:00:00Z
They comment in earnest: “I wish it had a higher contrast” and “The starkness is working.” Is This the MySpace of Fine Art?
“The Pietà, in its simplicity, and its starkness, I don’t think I have ever seen anything as powerful,” Mr. Campbell said. Around the Unisphere at the World’s Fair, Lives Changed 2014-04-18T16:00:57Z
But the starkness of our patients’ immediate needs are hard to ignore. Well: When Doctors Give Patients Money 2014-01-30T16:07:08Z
Christie and Paul represent the starkness of Republicans’ choice heading into what could be the most consequential presidential election for the party in more than three decades. Is GOP big enough for Chris Christie and Rand Paul? 2013-08-18T15:56:00Z
Naughty Dog captures the starkness of it all in vivid detail. 'The Last Of Us' Review: This Is The End, Beautiful Friend (PS3) 2013-06-13T14:40:00Z
Still, the starkness of the design troubled me. In a Tiny Brooklyn Kitchen, Room for Lots of Ideas 2012-10-17T22:20:46Z
The starkness of the scene and the chaperone evoked a Soviet-era interrogation, and Lendl, who has thickened in middle age and kept his hair in a buzz cut, looked like an Ostrava detective. Can Ivan Lendl Lead Andy Murray to Tennis Greatness? 2012-06-20T21:25:05Z
Their exchange is quite startling in its starkness: “If I do her any hurt, sir, there’s a law to punish me?” Counting Down Dickens' Greatest Novels. Number 8: Hard Times 2012-01-29T23:35:23Z
But the tree that wore them, standing in stripped starkness that month—if stark means strong—shall enter dazzling splendors when the days of ice storms come. Minstrel Weather 2012-01-24T03:00:25.640Z
Then the eyelids closed, and the face lost the horrible starkness of death. For Sceptre and Crown, Vol. II (of II) A Romance of the Present Time 2011-10-13T02:00:49.420Z
“We all gasped at the starkness,” said Goosby, who oversees the U.S. Ending AIDS Price Tag Starts at $6 Billion as Donors Pull Back 2011-09-12T00:05:38Z
As the meeting progressed, the starkness of just how disconnected the modern Wal-Mart is from the Wal-Mart that Sam Walton founded nearly 50 years ago became clearer and clearer. Has Wal-Mart Has Lost Touch With Its Populist Roots? 2011-06-27T23:25:50Z
But it is not just material differences that produce the starkness of the DSK case. Dominique Strauss-Kahn's Long Shadow in Washington 2011-05-18T17:55:00Z
The ad is in black and white, adding to the sense of starkness. Parodies proliferate of Woods ad with Dad's voice 2010-04-09T21:58:00Z
The young mountaineer was trudging along one day through a gracious woodland, which even, in the starkness of winter, hinted at the nobility that summer leafage must give to its parklike spaces. The Tempering
I arose; and in the darkness Wan beneath the haunted sky, I have seen it, cold to starkness,— My dead love go weeping by. One Day & Another A Lyrical Eclogue
Around him, under the airless sky of space, stretched desolation that he'd of course known about beforehand—but which now had assumed that special and terrible starkness of reality. Asteroid of Fear
The Berlin architect, no doubt in anticipation of invading armies, had exhausted his ingenuity in the fa�ade and the reception rooms, and the chambers above were left in a state of disturbing starkness. Command
A gull rose out of the murk with wings that tore it— Life's answer to the storm's terrible starkness. Sea Poems
But the light was searching, cynical, and the wayside scenes were revealed with the despondent starkness of a Russian novel. The Cup of Fury A Novel of Cities and Shipyards
He was very gentle with man and beast, but he dreaded the starkness of disillusion cropping through again. The Rainbow
Mellow now and tranquil in its day of fruitage it had the seeming of meditation upon the cycles of bud and leaf, sun and storm; the starkness of death and the miracle of resurrection. The Roof Tree
"Thou hast felt no Viking's starkness; Thou hast lost a Christian's throne." Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, September 30, 1914
Then, when he was five-and-twenty, he found himself at the edge of the world gazing in timorous starkness down into the abyss of the Great War. The Rough Road
I admire strength with anybody, but the starkness of the sagas shocks me. Gudrid the Fair A Tale of the Discovery of America
Such horror as Mr. Burke has imagined is almost impossible to portray convincingly, yet the author has softened its starkness into patterns of gracious beauty and musical rhythmic speech. The Best Short Stories of 1917 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story
Shann had tasted loneliness in the mountains, experienced the strange world of the river at night lighted by the wan radiance of glowing shrubs and plants, forced the starkness of the heights. Storm Over Warlock
After a little period of respite she let herself out of the door into the rain that had begun falling with a sobbing fitfulness, and went through the starkness of the woods. A Pagan of the Hills
Lanfranc had, however, possessed the king with certain general facts, which disposed William to give the accused a patient hearing, and when his "starkness" was not roused, William could be just. The Rival Heirs; being the Third and Last Chronicle of Aescendune
Land and sky were alike washed clean, to a starkness and nakedness calling for warm clothing out of doors, and well-stoked fires within. Deadham Hard
The starkness of the room was emphasized by the glare of arc and fluorescent lighting. Terminal Compromise: computer terrorism: when privacy and freedom are the victims: a novel
Her plain black dress gave her a starkness.... Tono Bungay
It showed with such starkness how hideously the Brandeis ledger sagged on the wrong side. Fanny Herself
Shall stiffness bind them, and starkness Enthral them, by field and flood, Till "the sun shall be turn'd to darkness, And the moon shall be turn'd to blood." Poems by Adam Lindsay Gordon
The starkness of the words, of the reality they spoke, flowed over him like icy water; he felt that he was sinking, strangling, in a sea grimmer than any about Cape Horn. Java Head
Along that hot road the spectre of Zurich pursued me, in all its starkness. Alone
All around, was spread the extraordinary desolation of stillness, that had so impressed me during my previous wanderings across its starkness. The House on the Borderland
That strange feeling of starkness never belonged to a human body soft with the pulse of life. The Maid of the Whispering Hills
Since I left my father's house I have felt the starkness of strangers, and now—now I can endure it no longer. The Ward of King Canute; a romance of the Danish conquest
And once I took my neighbour's wife, That was bound to an eastland man, In the starkness of my evil youth, Before my griefs began. The Ballad of the White Horse
But yet redeem'd it in days of darkness,   And shapes and signs of the final wrath, When death, in hideous and ghastly starkness,                 Stood on his path. Bulchevy's Book of English Verse
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