| 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. |
| 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. |
| Only the clean lines of the stage design serve to evoke the starkness of the northern landscape. |
| Although perhaps longer than necessary, the film gains power from its starkness. |
| After the lush greenery of that beautiful country, the starkness of northern Namibia provided a jarring contrast. |
| It did not prepare me for the starkness and grayness of the depressing environment in Clichy, home of SCI offices. |
