Sentence examples for stark acceptance from inspiring English sources

Behind the piece lies a stark acceptance of mortality: in one of the most moving gestures, extinction is suggested by a yellow cloak wrapped around a man's face.

Like the graduating class speaker, Chris Payton, his words full of recognition of the irrevocable hurt he had caused to his victim and to his family, graduates reflected stark acceptance of what they had done wrong and gratitude for the transformative experience in a place where hope often goes to die.

The tokenism of her complete comfort with and acceptance of Will is so stark that I would classify her as a magical crip whisperer.

Still, the decision to nationalize Allied Irish represents the government's acceptance of a stark reality — that banking problems in Ireland did not lie just with Anglo Irish, but had contaminated the sector as a whole, so much so that there was no other recourse but for the state to step in.

Fig. 2 Schematic representation of the longitudinal phase-space acceptance of a Stark decelerator for guiding (ϕ 0=0°, left) and deceleration (ϕ 0=70°, right).

After Sept. 11, 2001, stark fears gave way to compliance and acceptance, but now many people seem to feel that the government measures are more about reaction than protection.

Fig. 7 Longitudinal phase-space acceptance (white curve) of the Stark decelerator for ϕ 0=0°, together with a schematic representation of the phase-space area of the molecular beam pulse at the entrance of the Stark decelerator for a Nijmegen Pulsed Valve (a) and a Jordan Valve (b).

In the search for economic viability (and social acceptance) many are left with the stark choice of intensification or abandonment; ultimately meeting neither market demands nor ecosystem services.