Sentence examples for stark opposition from inspiring English sources

"stark opposition" is correct and usable in written English
You can use it to describe two contrasting ideas or opposing sides. For example, "The stark opposition between the two candidates made it difficult to decide who to vote for."

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Pickford's uncanny business acumen stood in stark opposition to her screen image.

This was in stark opposition to what was going on in Europe.

The novel has never stood in such stark opposition to the culture that surrounds it.

Kill! Kill!," a Meyer exploitation film that, in stark opposition to the director's later works, featured no nudity.

But it suited Malevich to suggest that the genesis of suprematism lay in this stark opposition of black and white.

Yet Russia gets its hackles up at the slightest possibility of regime change, placing it in stark opposition to western powers.

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But a little later in child development, those stark oppositions give way to more subtle comparisons.

Rust and Bone, by Craig Davidson (Picador, £10.99) Stark oppositions often pack the punch in these gritty tales about American tough guys on the ropes.

It is not so much a fusion of styles as a series of stark oppositions: serenity v violence, classical v digital.

At mid-century, apart from Baudelaire, who advocated the most romantic possibilities of painting, the most prominent critics tended to think in terms of stark oppositions and distinctions often beauty and ugliness and thus often failed to achieve an adequate dialectical criticism.

But the great strength of Buruma's book, which is part reportage, part essay, is to demonstrate that such stark oppositions are not only inadequate to describe what is happening, but liable to inflame hostility to a degree that will become unbearable for us all.

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