It illustrated, in particularly stark form, the political strategy of the Bush administration before Sept. 11.
They simmered even as the country was created after World War I and assumed stark form under Saddam Hussein.
It was in a very stark form, but, like Bob said, as soon as it started bluffing against me, I realized that this was the most incredible thing I had ever seen.
In stark form, the debate was: Does language shape what we perceive, a position associated with the late Benjamin Lee Whorf, or are our perceptions pure sensory impressions, immune to the arbitrary ways that language carves up the world?
That idea, in a less stark form, is how readers typify their reasons for subscribing: a family habit of taking the "Manchester" Guardian, followed by a spell working abroad in development or teaching, then retirement or emigration (often to Australia, New Zealand or North America).
Its stark form, uncharged with meaning except what the viewer reads into it, and flat picture plane -- which he saw as the device that divorced his pictures from the illusory depth of perspective -- enabled him to escape the confines of "illustration" in his documentary work and progress to the "realm of ideas," he later put it.
Luther forced him to confront issues that he would have preferred to leave undefined, specific questions about grace, sin, and evil that Luther raised in stark form.
The reason not to steal, on this account, is not that stealing is bad in the sense that it should be minimized but rather simply that stealing is forbidden no matter what the consequences (this is admittedly a stark form of deontology, but there are less stern versions as well).
A particularly stark form of this dilemma is faced by what is perhaps the most widely accepted post-Kripkean alternative to descriptivism, namely Millianism, which holds that what a name contributes semantically to the propositions expressed through the use of sentences containing the name is just the name's referent.
