Sentence examples for stark cold from inspiring English sources

In making his case for more defense spending, Mr. Rumsfeld spoke in the stark, cold war terms of strength and weakness.

LED bulbs tend to generate a stark, cold light – a world away from the warm, yellowish light we are used to from incandescent bulbs.

It's lovely because it blooms against stark cold.

Politics is also delaying the bills, with Russia's ongoing vetoes of UN resolutions against Syria feeding into the hands of American politicians inclined to see Russia in stark Cold War terms.

By striving to neutralize China's current arsenal, a missile defense system would encourage Chinese leaders to conclude that the United States and its allies still saw that nation in stark cold-war terms, leading China to stockpile even more missiles.

The image is undoubtedly stark and cold, but it somehow manages to come across as rich, even beautiful.

When the nurse entered to call him through she found him stark naked, cold and uncomfortable, but sitting politely on the chair.

Mr. Bondy's high-concept staging featured stark, spare, cold sets and dispensed entirely with many of the familiar theatrical touches that audiences count on: Tosca placed no candles by the body of the villain Scarpia after murdering him, and did not exactly leap to her death at the end.

Juliet downs a tincture to make her "stiff and stark and cold, appear like death," to leave her family's warring tribal politics and live happily ever after with her lover.

We can't sit here and wait and continue to ask, please treat us like human beings, and yet somehow when people want to look at this, they want to take out all the history around it, all of the obvious bias that's been shown, and they just want to look at it from a very stark and cold way, and you can't do that in this situation.

If there is a formula to the genre, it often includes a cold, stark setting and a grizzled detective figure who consumes too much coffee and junk food.