Sentence examples for stark manner from inspiring English sources

Sum, his bestselling collection of short fables ("You will not read a more dazzling book this year" tweeted Stephen Fry) asked us, in the most rigorous and stark manner, to be careful what we wish for in the afterlife.

At the age at which you are entitled to think you can achieve anything, to be confronted with the alternative, and in such a stark manner, is cruel and unjust.

Having covered up for Chevalier in 1943, in the 1954 hearings Oppenheimer betrayed him in the starkest manner.

The signature bright colors of Nokia's generally matte-finish smartphone and tablet devices also genuinely do announce themselves in almost as stark a manner as depicted in the promo video above when spotted on the street.

CARLIN--George, 71, a brilliant artist who used comedy to speak in a quite honest, stark, and innovative manner about the nature of life.

Schrödinger did not break new ground, as has been pointed out by Perutz (1987), but rather gathered together several strands of research and stated his questions in a stark and provocative manner.

"I met [her] on a couple of occasions and was much taken with her manner of stark lugubriousness tempered with high and subversive irony - just like her books".

The service started off in a somber manner — a stark contrast to one of Mr. Wright's foot-stomping and hand-clapping gospel numbers — but as the afternoon wore on, congregants joined in a rousing rendition of his song "We're Gonna Make It".

Even today it is difficult to look at the Disasters, because Goya catalogues the brutality and fatal consequences of war in such a stark, confrontational and unflinching manner.

In actual fact, the bigwigs in both parties will sweat bullets throughout the entire convention week, in mortal fear of some party representative exhibiting their party's intolerance in too stark and noticeable a manner.

This is in stark contrast to the manner in which traditional toxicological studies and risk assessments are carried out, which have primarily focused on single chemicals at higher than environmentally relevant doses.