Sentence examples for stark and powerful from inspiring English sources
The results are stark and powerful.
In Georgia, Levan Koguashvili's Quchis dgeebi (Street Days), a tale of heroin and corruption in Tbilisi, offered stark and powerful neorealist drama.
"I Only Have Eyes for You" was written for a nineteen-thirties musical, but three decades later the Flamingos transformed it into something stark and powerful, stripped of its show-tune origins.
In the pipeline for the coming year are Julien Duvivier's "Pépé le Moko" (1937), Jean Renoir's "Bête Humaine" ("The Human Beast," 1938) and Henri-Georges Clouzot's "Corbeau" ("The Raven," 1943), a stark and powerful film that greatly influenced Hitchcock.
Hanoi Masters offers a window into the stark and powerful beauty of traditional Vietnamese music, and into the nature of music as a salve and response to this most savage of wars.
Mr. Obama had just laid down a stark and powerful gauntlet, challenging the country to live up to the expectations of 9-year-old Christina-Taylor Green, whose death on Saturday was an emotional punch to the gut for so many people across the country.
Lorca, a consummate artist, musician, dramatist, and poet, captured the stark emotions and powerful effects that characterize traditional song and ballad forms.
His explanations of complex environmental phenomena — the jet stream has always been a particularly tough one for me to grasp — are clear, and while some of the visual aids are a little corny, most of the images are stark, illuminating and powerful.
A stark, emotional, and powerful message about creativity, the ageless human body and the aging paradox took place with little need for an introduction or explanation.
Today's curtain of razor wire doesn't have such neat termini, but it is a stark and equally powerful symbol of a modern failure of European unity.
It all guides the audience through the story: Christopher Akerlind's lighting, with towering shadows and powerful stark-and-sudden changes; Nico Muhly's haunting music; and Matt Tierney's booming but subtle sound design that suggests distance and internality.
