Sentence examples for or starker from inspiring English sources

His visual style may overfeed the eye with emotion but doesn't sicken it of fantasy — doesn't offer any plainer or starker alternatives.

There could be no better or starker example than child nudity for the benefit of newsworthiness.

3. Exchange does not have to be "simultaneous". An exchange can be simultaneous (i.e., simultaneous swap) or non-simultaneous (i.e. deferred or "Starker Tax Deferred Exchange").

Same color or stark change?

His ideas are repeatedly referred to as "abstract", "hard", "utopian" or "stark".

Her dressmaking can be lavish or stark; stately or subversive; tactile but conceptual; demi-couture or, in the case of her recent collaborations with Payless and Target, populist.

When the play's other characters lament or scorn Lear's infirmity or dotage or stark raving madness, you don't know what they're talking about.

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.

One can create visually powerful spaces with hanging votives, translucent "clouds," shafts of light, sheets of cascading water or stark concrete walls that will all make fine memorials.

The eight-minute ride lifts you nearly half a mile and inspires, depending on your temperament and proximity to a window, rapture or stark terror.

The pale concrete floors and white walls read as either chic or stark, depending on whether you're sitting in the cramped back room or up front at the gorgeous planked communal table.