Sentence examples for stark emphasis from inspiring English sources

It is severe, old-school modern dance characterized by a stark emphasis on the body's weight; no complaints there.

With Herder's stark emphasis on individuality in aesthetics, over against universality, the supplanting of the Enlightenment with Romanticism and Historicism is well advanced.

The drama, in its stark emphases on choices that contemporary life renders all the more difficult, proves even more revealing of the city's latter-day losses, as well as its gains.

But by sidestepping the reliance on the bond market, the new borrowing has placed a stark new emphasis on this crushing problem.

Mr. Gold's stylized staging of this landmark play, which opened on Thursday night at the Laura Pels Theater, places a stark, literal emphasis on the oppressive intimacy that causes constant conflagrations when the raging fire within Jimmy Porter (Mr. Rhys) meets the kindling of his wife's meek disengagement and his best friend's cordial neutrality.

As first among the Fauves — or Wild Beasts — he, along with Georges Braque and André Derain, revolutionized painting with a new emphasis on stark color: color for color's sake.

The stark departure from the old emphasis on team spirit shows a bit of desperation.

While Mr. Asmussen's views on monetary policy are not well known, he comes from the same tradition of German economics as Mr. Stark — one that puts an emphasis on price stability and is skeptical of efforts to help countries that run up too much debt.

There she began to teach her methods of silent contemplative prayer and of passive acceptance of God's initiative in one's moral transformation, which was in stark contrast to the traditional emphasis on the active cultivation of piety and morals.

JD, a local rival which has just completed its own successful IPO in America, is coming after Alibaba aggressively with an "asset-heavy" e-commerce business model akin to Amazon's a stark contrast with Alibaba's emphasis on maintaing "asset-light" platforms like Taobao that leave warehousing, inventory management and so on to others.

[Page A14.] The new emphasis is a stark change from the 1980's, when educators and policy makers fretted over the fate of even America's best schools in international competition, and it is in striking contrast to other domestic policy issues, like health care, in which middle class concerns drive the debate.