A stark sense of hesitation washes over her, and her voice grows softer and more full of doubt as she finds herself unexpectedly falling in love with her sworn enemy.

She found one in her dungarees pocket and dabbed her eyes with it, feeling a stark, terrible, overwhelming sense of loneliness.

There is a stark sense of living death in Robby's account of Herbert's office retirement party.

It's at the Met and gives a stark, almost agonizing sense of how he carried his obsessive, draftsmanlike self-correction right into what should have been the final stages of a painting.

Facts which had never before left their stark common sense, suddenly figure as Eleusinian mysteries.

The entire film has overtones of isolation and segregation especially between men and women and has a stark sense of avant-comedy in the vein of Guy Maddin or William Klein films.

More than a decade on, this has been realised in the starkest sense.

Realistic with the stark good sense of men who risk their lives for pay, they knew such an impromptu assault on the city's works could only end in massacre.

Autonomous' choice in your stark sense is only available to monsters of selfishness or people with no normal human ties.

He was not a religious man, but he maintained a stark sense of good and evil, castigating others, as well as himself, for transgressions.