"stark need" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it when you want to emphasize the urgency of a certain requirement or necessity. For example: "The refugees face a stark need for food and medical supplies."
Her desire to leave her urban life behind is also motivated by stark need: five months pregnant, and preparing for single motherhood, she needs a job that comes with health insurance.
Yet with life expectancy for women still longer than men, at an average of 79.5 for men and 83.3 for women, there is a stark need for women to save more, and to make plans and provisions in the event that they are left alone.
But the plethora of developments around the national parks right now illustrate a stark need for a national conversation that helps publicize these places and helps us come to agreement about how we will fund, maintain and protect their essential character into perpetuity, and why it is vital to do so.
Most chavs have a stark need to reproduce, and it is drilled into them from childhood that it is the only reason to live - how else can you make money without having a job.
These documents, arguably, highlight the stark, remaining need for human moderators on social networks.
But the stark humanitarian needs should lead us to reform and strengthen, not disband, the peacekeeping contingent.
This case raises in a stark way the need for the legacy issues of the past to be addressed in a victim-centred way.
City, in stark contrast, will need a considerable improvement from last season if they are to achieve their minimum target, namely to reach the knockout stages for the first time.
The tragedy of Richard Keys's hour on TalkSport radio today was that few attempts at self-exculpation have ever demonstrated with such stark clarity the need for the existence of Max Clifford.
Making no apology for setting out in "stark terms" the need for urgent reform, he warned that bank lenders owed £1.4bn by the group – which lost £2.5bn last year – could force fire sales of its prized businesses to get their money back, or increase the borrowing rate they charge on their loans.
"It doesn't matter if it's really formal or informal," says Stark, "but you need people who are communicating closely and working towards a common goal".
