There are neat stacks of femurs and units that contain whole bodies, still intact and starkly white.
“We are called to put an end to economic and social inequalities”—a perhaps admirable but starkly utopian goal.
But Jones, like most outrage-provoking commentators, starkly divides opinion.
The terrain is at once starkly modern, and strangely retro in a pre-feminism Mad Men sort of way.
On-screen, going dark means Lena will become a starkly powerful evil witch.
It was a wild attempt to secure proof of the starkly impossible.
The day of reckoning came, and the "fat of the land" stared us starkly in the face.
But life is life and starkly real if not essentially earnest.
Then in that seething funnel there was waged a starkly fantastic conflict.
And the promontories of the sea gate were starkly clear in the growing light.
Old English stearc "stiff, strong" (related to starian "to stare"), from Proto-Germanic *starkaz (cf. Old Norse sterkr, Old Frisian sterk, Middle Dutch starc, Old High German starah, German stark, Gothic *starks), from PIE root *ster- "stiff, rigid" (see stare).
Meaning "utter, sheer, complete" first recorded c.1400, perhaps from influence of common phrase stark dead (late 14c.), with stark mistaken as an intensive adjective. Sense of "bare, barren" is from 1833. Stark naked (1520s) is from Middle English start naked (early 13c.), from Old English steort "tail, rump." Hence British slang starkers "naked" (1923).
