The phrase "a stark reflection of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe something that clearly and vividly represents or illustrates a particular situation, condition, or quality.
Example: "The rising unemployment rates are a stark reflection of the economic downturn affecting the country."
Alternatives: "a clear indication of" or "a vivid representation of".
Your article gave young people a stark reflection of themselves, if they choose to look at it: straight, no chaser.
And in light of subsequent events, "The Cherry Orchard" stands as a stark reflection of the way history has shaped the character of the Russian people.
But in a stark reflection of the company's difficulties, its commercial aircraft division made less money than a year earlier as its operating profit margins slid to 4.8percentt from 11percentt.
For Grady, which has served Atlanta's poor for 117 years, it was an excruciating choice, a stark reflection of what happens when the country's inadequate health care system confronts its defective immigration policy.
Emma McGuigan, the company's group technology officer, said it was a stark reflection of the challenges the tech industry faces when it comes to diversity.
Windows 8, in a stark reflection of how the technology business is changing, will rise or fall on how it is received in the consumer market.
A stark reflection on London fashion week's glamour rating: of all the A-listers in town doing the awards circuit this week, including Scarlett Johansson, Beyoncé and Justin Timberlake, not one bothered to grace the audience of a single catwalk show.
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.
But the nil asset valuation could scarcely be a starker reflection of the state of a market that plays such a crucial role in keeping older and disabled people out of hospital and care homes.
However, the drama surrounding its future is merely a slightly more stark reflection of the difficulties besetting many other top-rank orchestras in cities such as Boston, Cleveland and Pittsburgh, as well as other arts institutions.
Today, murder rates in these areas are barely a third of what they were in the early 1990s the starkest reflections of a nationwide decline in crime.
