| After the lush greenery of that beautiful country, the starkness of northern Namibia provided a jarring contrast. |
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| The essence of all these plays is in the absolute starkness, as in Noh drama or Yeats. |
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| The black whorled band framing the title is aggressive in its starkness and stylization. |
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| It sounds like the opening line to a Jean-Pierre Melville scenario and the film has a similar starkness to it. |
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| Only the clean lines of the stage design serve to evoke the starkness of the northern landscape. |
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| The political arena often produces heated exchanges and the starkness of the voting system produces winners and losers. |
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| Although perhaps longer than necessary, the film gains power from its starkness. |
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| Though it opens and closes with the starkness of words on a page, or in part because it does, the film focuses the viewer on that which is not said, not sayable. |
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| The starkness is only slightly alleviated at Rocky Saddle, where a few gum trees sit atop a ridge. |
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| It did not prepare me for the starkness and grayness of the depressing environment in Clichy, home of SCI offices. |
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| In La Chambre blanche, eleven performers are enclosed in a strange white room that evokes, in turn, the intimacy of a bedroom, the starkness of a mental hospital, and the isolation of a fortress. |
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| While predecessor Tobey Maguire is a fine comedic actor with self-effacing googly eyed charm, there are moments in The Amazing Spider-Man 2 that require a starkness and delicacy that might have been beyond him. |
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| In short, the ballad method of narration is directed toward achieving a bold, sensational, dramatic effect with purposeful starkness and abruptness. |
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| However, if, on the contrary, it is the starkness of rock you are looking for, our skilled craftsmen will inlay specks of mica, like those found in a glistening stone or the inside of a shell. |
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| While the second half of the exposition is in major, the hollow starkness of the opening has permeated us so strongly that this major only serves to amplify the despair. |
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| The development returns to and intensifies the puzzling, daring starkness of the opening harmonies, and then dissolve into a recapitulation in the subdominant rather than the usual tonic home key. |
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| The trick is to combine just that starkness with warmth, with atmosphere. |
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| After the starkness of Passiontide the beautiful colours and the scent of the decorations. |
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