"starkly aware" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe a situation or feeling of being acutely conscious of something, usually due to it being strikingly clear or obvious. For example: She was starkly aware of the tension in the room.
Now, however, they were starkly aware of the appeal of a newly redone interior.
I am often starkly aware that I'm participating in something truly amazing, yet at times incredibly challenging and humbling.
WE became starkly aware of Mike Tyson's appetites when he chewed off part of Evander Holyfield's ear three years ago.
Spectators watching David Beckham at Wembley on Wednesday night - or Andrew Flintoff in the West Indies - are starkly aware that a clock is ticking down on their careers.
Perhaps more than anything, the uncertainty of war has made these grieving partners, spouses, mothers, fathers, sons and daughters more starkly aware than ever of their own terrible losses.
Now, however, as a middle-aged single parent soon to catapult into freelance life, I am starkly aware that the last time I was freelance it was 1992, and I was flat-sharing in Crouch Hill.
This side of peril is particularly relevant to cancer: '[The] dying cancer patient may make us starkly and disagreeably aware that a similar fate can befall us' (p.66, [ 19]).
Ujumbe, who loves music and singing, is fully aware that her childhood starkly differs from adolescents in other parts of the world.
Dredd was no doubt already aware of these problems to some extent, but the letter succinctly and starkly listed them at a time when Dredd was already growing disillusioned with the system due to his feelings of guilt in respect of the dubious and underhand methods he had used to subdue the Democratic March in 2109.
Viewers who are reminded of work by Robert Mapplethorpe should be aware that Mapplethorpe saw Mr. Dureau's work before he began taking his own astutely idealized, sometimes starkly erotic images of black men.
This week, the Colts seem aware that there is almost nothing to be gained by speaking candidly about facing the Jets again under starkly different circumstances.
