Sentence examples for stark discovery from inspiring English sources

For American college students, a generation that grew up in a period of virtually unalloyed prosperity, for whom Vietnam is a history lesson and the cold war a dim childhood memory, the attacks on the World Trade Center were a sudden, stark discovery of their nation's vulnerability and the scope of anger in the world.

Thirteen years ago, two teams of astronomers and physicists independently made the same stark discovery: Not only is the universe expanding like a vast inflating balloon, but its expansion is speeding up.

Wolff, in stark contrast, maintains that discoveries and conclusions made in practical philosophy are necessarily based upon prior conclusions drawn from ontology or metaphysics.

As an explorer, Stark could claim no major discoveries, but her acute observations and her surveying skills had earned her professional respect and, for cartographic contributions, a Royal Geographical Society award.

This is in stark contrast to other methods that display allelic discovery rates of about 70% or less (Zong et al, 2012).

The great archeological discoveries of the modern era were Stark's abiding interest; she read Marco Polo's "Travels" the way Schliemann had read Homer to locate Troy.

There are few published biomarker discovery datasets and even fewer in public data repositories, in stark contrast to widely available microarray and next-generation high-throughput genomic data.

Invariably, a key piece of evidence gets thrown out (TV lawyers seem unfamiliar with witness lists and discovery, and are always stunned by these third-act twists), and Stark blisters his deputies.

There is increasing evidence of a strong interplay between protein phosphorylation and protein ubiquitylation [ 35, 36], but the discovery that PINK1 directly targets ubiquitin at Ser is perhaps the starkest example of how these two major systems of post-translational modifications converge.

Among the biggest surprises here is the discovery that Richard Avedon shot the dramatic cover for Fresh by Sly and the Family Stone and the stark portrait of Simon and Garfunkel for Bookends.

Both Trumbull's stark, straightforward portrait of his parents and Charles Willson Peale's "Benjamin Franklin," a portrait that includes references to Franklin's writings and his discovery of electricity, reflect American values.