Sentence examples for stark room from inspiring English sources

One faculty adviser took a student shopping for posters, curtains and a throw rug to make her stark room cozier.

"I didn't know the gun was loaded," she said, resting under a red-and-gold blanket in a stark room with a bare concrete floor.

Seated in the corner of a stark room carpeted in Persian rugs, he was helped to his feet by aides to shake hands.

In his black-and-white addresses to the camera, interspersed throughout the series, Titus is in a stark room with a bare light bulb hanging from the ceiling.

But Yu said he spends more time in his study, another stark room with a laptop computer on a clean desk.

A stark room contains models of tufa towers — unearthly pillars of limestone — left exposed at Mono Lake in California, after water was diverted to Los Angeles in the 1940s.

The ones with glamorous, sexually ambiguous young creatures in stark rooms, striking languorous poses and speaking enigmatic nonsense?

"Staff are also quick to point out that the stark rooms accommodating some of South Africa's most violent criminals – mostly murderers and rapists – are a huge improvement on the previously overcrowded and filthy wards".

Understaffing, stark rooms, poor care plans and sedation used as a first, not last, resort; were among the issues found when commission staff visited dementia units.

More than a decade ago, John Updike lamented the looming extinction of print by commemorating the value of a book's physicality: "Shelved rows of books warm and brighten the starkest room, and scattered single volumes reveal mental processes in progress," he wrote.

Good ATMOSPHERE Stark dining room with ancient Roman touches.