starkly
in a harsh, grim, or desolate way: Working in the slums confronted us starkly with the sufferings of others.
extremely simply, sparely, or austerely: Even in wealthier households, bedrooms were starkly furnished, with just a bed and perhaps a chair and a small table.
in a blunt or sternly plain way, without softening: To put it more starkly, your great-grandmother was a common criminal.
in a way that is highly contrastive; distinctly or sharply: The case presents two starkly different views of mobile device targeting by advertisers.
completely or utterly; downright: We both know that it's starkly impossible to hide an operation as big as that from a spy system as good as theirs.
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How to use starkly in a sentence
With the promise of a shuffled lineup next spring, the Nationals could really use stark improvements from Robles’s spot in the order, whether it’s seventh, eight or near the top.
A bulked-up Victor Robles had a down year. He’ll look to fine-tune his game in winter ball. | Jesse Dougherty | November 12, 2020 | Washington PostStarting Thursday, I plan to watch almost every minute of the Masters — perhaps I will take breaks to eat — and probably enjoy the golf as much on television in stark November as in person in azalea April.
In a grim year, a November Masters is something to be thankful for | Thomas M. Boswell | November 12, 2020 | Washington PostShe’s a stark change from her predecessor Kassandra, who could charm any room of people and whose humor was infectious.
All the ‘Assassin’s Creed’ games, ranked | Elise Favis, Gene Park | November 11, 2020 | Washington PostAfter all, when the power goes out in Don DeLillo’s new novel, “The Silence,” the guests at a Super Bowl party in Manhattan immediately go stark-raving mad.
Jonathan Lethem’s ‘The Arrest’ imagines a kinder, gentler apocalypse | Ron Charles | November 10, 2020 | Washington PostThe statistics paint a stark picture, but it’s a disparity that I’ve faced on a personal level too.
Startup fundraising is the most tangible gender gap. How can we overcome it? | Walter Thompson | November 9, 2020 | TechCrunch
It reveals starkly what we are up against when it comes to Erdoğan.
Turkish President Declares Lawrence of Arabia a Bigger Enemy than ISIS | Jamie Dettmer | October 13, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThere are neat stacks of femurs and units that contain whole bodies, still intact and starkly white.
Did the Virgin Mary Warn Rwanda’s Holiest Town of the Genocide? | Nina Strochlic | April 20, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST“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.
Feminist Flagellant: Liz Jones’s Surprising Brand of Tell-All | Emma Garman | July 22, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTThe terrain is at once starkly modern, and strangely retro in a pre-feminism Mad Men sort of way.
How Americans Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Philandering Politicians | Michelle Cottle | July 5, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTThe brassy noonday fervor, blazing from an unclouded sky, starkly revealed every detail.
Cursed | George Allan EnglandHis very deficiencies bring out starkly certain qualities that lurk suppressed and hidden in us all.
The Outline of History: Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind | Herbert George WellsHe folded his arms and rose starkly from the chair, his beard all a-bristle, his deep little eyes glaring.
The Keepers of the King's Peace | Edgar Wallacestarkly exposed and black under the foot of these cliffs were the mouths of several caves.
Tales of Space and Time | Herbert George WellsHe knew starkly that this time he would have to go through with a killing, or else give up this line of research.
Man of Many Minds | E. Everett Evans
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