Example sentences for: starkly

How can you use “starkly” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Set on a promontory where the Yangzi and Jialing rivers converge, this starkly industrial city of smokestacks is crucial to transportation and commerce in southwest China.

  • This became patently clear during the Sino-Japanese War of 1894–1895, in which the inadequacy of the Chinese army was starkly displayed.

  • In some cases, senior management's interest had been generated by an incident that starkly illustrated the organization's information security vulnerabilities, even though no damage may have actually occurred.

  • In starkly austere but elegant contrast to the Royal Bank’s exuberance is German Bauhaus master Mies van der Rohe’s five black steel towers for the Toronto Dominion Centre (between Wellington and King Streets).

  • Critics see this biopic about Robert E. Howard, the author of the Conan the Barbarian stories, as an occasion to wax confessional, particularly on the subject of the writing life: "It's rare to see the basic conditions of a writer's existence--the solitude, the panic, the neediness, the unhealthy self-absorption--portrayed so starkly," says The New Yorker 's Terrence Rafferty.


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