But Man Ray has made the image startlingly modern, the solarization giving the figure a stark, clean, metallic quality.

And he's been paired with an artist whose style is perfect for bringing the cold, stark and dingy quality of the backdrop to life.

Trees planted in front and back have diminished its stark quality.

According to the filmmaker, he was drawn to the book's dialogue that was "almost poetic in its carved-out, stark quality."

Mitch felt instinctively the stark monastic quality of the furnishing and decoration was postwife.

That event has a stark, surreal quality that shows up in the rest of the story as well.

The novella has the stark black-and-white quality of the classic Italian neo-realist films.

It had a stark quality not normally found in an adolescent.

These works are in striking contrast to the stark, realistic qualities of his early work.

The Bertoia chairs, with their steel basketwork design, have a stark, no-nonsense quality.