| She turned her face to the voice, to find an expression of stark terror on her crewman's countenance. |
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| Over the weeks, I've detected a stark difference in the quality of the news delivered to the elite and to the masses. |
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| At the riverside, hawthorns, oaks, beeches and other trees stand stark and bare. |
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| The white of the barren room was a stark contrast to the blackness of the hole, up through which drifted faint scuffling sounds. |
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| The walls and sea floor consist of stark boulders and rough seams of rock uncolonised by sedentary species. |
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| So the stark ontology of the mechanical philosopher is established a priori by appealing to a notion of intelligibility. |
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| Not many though write with such stark conviction that the music moves, scares and excites you all at once. |
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| His self-sacrifice and idealism are also in stark contrast to the corruption and cynicism evident in modern Ireland. |
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| The dark, boxy back room sat in stark contrast to the unusually bright Melburnian day outside. |
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| Once known as the Enchanted Isles, the Galapagos to first time visitors are a meld of mysticism and stark reality. |
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| Someone somewhere could probably explain the stark slave realities behind turning old '80s pop songs into beatbox sample fests. |
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| Our notions of order and disorder stand in stark contrast to the dynamic artistry of the integral beauty of things as they are in nature. |
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| The cluster of dive boats in the water stands in stark contrast to the jagged Sinai mountains and Bedouin tents on the land. |
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| The findings, in terms of ethnicity and social class differences, are stark. |
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| Her desire for religious toleration was in stark contrast to the bigotry that riddled French society. |
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| Likewise, flower boxes can hang on the deck's railings with azaleas and begonias brightening up that stark wood deck. |
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| Liverpool's weakness was most stark just before half-time when the Belarusians created four chances inside two chaotic minutes. |
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| A black sky stretched out above me and cold stars gazed down with torpid light that dulled and burned a stark yellow. |
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| One piece decries the stark split tearing the country, and another seems to pine for a sort of folksy patriotism. |
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| Many now face a stark choice between closure and raising fees to a level which may be beyond low-paid parents. |
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| The ease of transplantation of tobacco stands in stark contrast to the caffeine crops. |
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| Most people are likely to think of winter landscapes as pictures made up of stark contrasts, of dark tree trunks and branches against white snow. |
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| Adventure travelers love trekking along the coastline as they enjoy the stark beauty of the area. |
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| It was in stark contrast to the Wasps who trooped off the field just thankful to have got through the season. |
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| Now we have a stark reminder that this law is serious, that it can bite, and that its effect is undeniably discriminatory. |
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| Deborah expressed regrets about the stark separation of classical ballet and modern dance. |
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| We hope that the sentence will stand as a stark warning to anyone considering abusing the special responsibilities of charity trusteeship. |
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| If you took out black-on-black crime the difference would be even more stark. |
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| Whether shot in stark monochrome, or with heavily filtered colour coding, they always feature handheld camerawork that is queasily mobile. |
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| A car driver approaching from a side street gave me a stark glance, wondering if it was safe for him to pass. |
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| Now the silence settled over the garden was thick and heavy, a stark contrast to the chirping and tweeting he was so accustomed to. |
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| His ideas inform the stark images of rural wastelands, twilit amusement parks and whiskey bottles that augment the musician's songs in the film. |
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| She's done so through her now trademark silhouettes, large black paper cut-outs set against stark white walls. |
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| The kitchen and bathroom are stark white, very simple and linear, but it creates a nice balance. |
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| Whilst not as stark as rumours suggest it is in the countryside, children in the capital do look quite thin and underfed. |
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| Walnut doors and skirting are complemented by stark white walls and most bedrooms contain fitted wardrobes. |
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| But most Democrats who are on the ballot in competitive races this year skittishly avoid such stark imagery. |
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| The slums and shanty towns stand in stark contrast to the multi-storey towers and the glamour of Bollywood. |
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| Nonetheless, I don my armadillo bolo tie and head to the stark suburban neighborhood on the south side of Prague. |
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| I am so caught up in thinking about the stark contrast that I don't hear the voices murmuring softly behind the door. |
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| The stark, unembellished style reflects perfectly the silence and sense of infinite time and space. |
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| Jackson was all angles and possessed a stark thinness suggestive of angry starvation, whereas his sister was sleek. |
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| War-torn Germany is provocatively portrayed with bombed-out buildings and spontaneous marketplaces arising out of stark, rubble-lined streets. |
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| But this stark, unforgiving wilderness has proved to be a land of bountiful plenty for one Scottish company. |
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| By using blue filters that mute the intensity of bright colors, he gives his film a stark, wintry feel. |
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| Gradually, stark slide guitar and viola accompaniment emerge from the track's shadows, building until the song's group chorus. |
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| She most likely thought I was stark raving bonkers as I told the tale of my worries about leaving the gas on. |
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| The alternative, which is of course always possible, is that half the town has gone stark, raving bonkers. |
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| I'd driven the poor chap over the edge of biographical desperation with my stark boringness. |
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| Sometimes, stark images can speak for themselves and even narrate untold stories. |
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| It is either an unrealisable wish-list that will prompt howls of derision, or a stark reminder of the size of the job facing us. |
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| Some of the newer houses and their roadside walls need plant screening to overcome a sometimes stark appearance. |
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| The unroofed abandoned cottage reminds the visitors of the stark choice between survival and holding home and hearth. |
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| The sun bled stark white light over the court and it bounded off pasty nets that fluttered a little. |
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| Gene Wilder is brilliantly understated as the Waco Kid, a stark contrast to the neurotic nebbish Leo Bloom in Brooks's The Producers. |
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| On arrival at the location we were met with the stark sight of solitary raw breeze blocks. |
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| This stark picture was part of what I thought was a pretty effective answer to the President's SOTU address. |
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| What makes Fight For Your Life so stark is the venomousness of the racial hatred that it manages to touch upon. |
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| It is Newman's ability to capture the riots' confusion, noise and incoherence that make the passage so stark yet believable. |
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| A Paul Nash-like landscape of stark black verticals against a black ground was created. |
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| The lion made no answer, the stark terror in his eyes saying everything that needed to be said. |
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| Piercing blue eyes glare from under thick, black lashes while naturally rosy cheeks appear vivaciously stark against elegant, pale ivory skin. |
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| The entire room, as well as the adjoining powder room and bedroom, was papered in stark white. |
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| But the threat of a ban on fishing for cod, whiting and haddock brings home the stark reality. |
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| A matching cloak fluttered from around his neck, standing out in stark contrast to his golden hair. |
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| A square window in a stark white door slides open, framing a nurse in a white room wearing a white nunlike getup. |
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| Even on stark issues like abortion, there can be no simple equation between the church and any political program or party. |
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| Beneath his watchband lies a strip of pink, tender skin, a stark contrast to his nut-brown tan. |
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| And above everything, a vivid blue sky, framed with stark clouds, and a lazy line of planes on the long descent over the city into Heathrow. |
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| I reckon we have removed about 15 years' growth all at once and the result is a rather stark wall of bare twigs and branches. |
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| Gray chairs and a dull gray carpet give the visiting area a stark, lifeless appearance. |
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| The room was as extravagant and stuffed with furniture as the hall had been stark and bare. |
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| But all around the edge, there were giant oaks and maples, stark, bare and black, and a few pines, as green as ever. |
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| The figures are life-size cut-outs, silhouetted against the stark white walls, which gives them a three-dimensional sculptural quality. |
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| Having a patio garden calls for a bit of ingenuity so a well positioned tub of flowers can soften a very stark and bare corner. |
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| The film itself has a more stark and severe look through much of it than the original, but it looks terrific here. |
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| Then the trees finish and ahead, rising to the skyline, is a stark, beautiful and bare valley clad in rough grasses. |
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| Architects are proposing to soften the buildings' stark functional appearance using metal, glass and canopies. |
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| Yet the stark reality of statistics, and the facts themselves, reveal a quite different story to the one we have come to accept. |
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| His evidence in chief stood in stark contrast to his evidence on cross-examination. |
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| In fact, in stark contrast to his colleagues in the game, he is a model professional who does not smoke, drink or abuse women. |
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| He outlines the stark consequences of industrial relations breakdown, and asks the negotiators to use the holiday break to reflect. |
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| Although slightly worn looking and grubby, they were a stark contrast to the appearance of the slaves they watched quietly shuffle past. |
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| Nevertheless, the thought of having my words printed for anyone to read sent stark terror into my heart. |
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| The sheer excitement, energy, and also stark terror of that moment must have been nearly overwhelming. |
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| This morning, I trudged through the knee-high drifts of wolves to bring you a picture which sums up the stark terror facing this country. |
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| Traditionally the life of a soldier involves long stretches of boredom punctuated by brief and seemingly unending moments of stark terror. |
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| Eliza stared up at the older man who was standing by, stark terror and fear in her eyes. |
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| As she drew the curtain, she revealed a sight that sent stark terror down my spine. |
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| One can only imagine the stark terror experienced by these young people during this horrendous event. |
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| Slowly..they began to disrobe themselves..till they stood before me..as stark as the day they were born. |
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| It mixed stylised, stark movement, rhythmic ensemble sequences and wonderful characterisation. |
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| Powerful and stark, Scottsboro reminds us of the continuing impact and importance of our country's tradition of dissent. |
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| Many were powerful, stark and moving but none so beautiful as Yervant Gianikian and Angela Ricci Lucchi's films. |
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| To play Geoffrey Chaucer in A Knight's Tale, he made his entrance stark naked. |
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| He further noticed, there was a guy who would sit in his room with the door open, stark naked, eating brownies, while standing on his head. |
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| After a while you can spot criminals so easily that they might as well be stark naked. |
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| Sometimes I look at something, and suddenly I'm more convinced than ever that the world has gone absolutely stark raving mad. |
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| We'd just experienced the razzmatazz of Canadian football and third division football on cold, wet Saturday afternoons provided a stark contrast. |
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| Dyke's hands off, relaxed approach, is in stark contrast to the style of his predecessor, John Birt. |
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| This stark honesty and candor serves to highlight the absence of emotional detail elsewhere. |
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| The opening scene of the ballet is a landscape of stark blue sky and ochreous sun-baked hills with Pan's grotto in the foreground. |
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| But the stark, dystopian science-fiction tale has become a cult oddity if not a classic. |
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| Anderson cuts back the distracting noises and crumbling static to reveal a stark paean about Odyssean fortitude. |
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| The Andean sun bears down, harsh and strong, in stark contrast to a chilly wind blowing from the mountain. |
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| Beautiful, wavy red hair cascaded down her back and contrasted sharply with the stark white mask she wore. |
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| I am hectored by this stark materialist warning each time I start typing something to post when supposedly at work. |
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| The landscape provides a stark contrast to the more popular south, boasting lush green vegetation, orange groves, and vineyards. |
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| This is the stark reality in a city where cutthroat competition between textile businesses is the order of the day. |
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| The retro, aircraft styling of the exterior is in stark contrast to the modern interior. |
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| This valley of hellish heat and human misery is also a place of stark, sublime beauty. |
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| The glitz and glamour was in stark contrast to the mostly dull, overcast weather. |
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| I consider that even in the subtopian clutter of modern towns and cities, a stark beauty can sometimes be found. |
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| In the United States, stark latitudinal changes in vegetative cover were prominent during the transition from Pleistocene to Holocene conditions. |
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| This was in stark contrast to Monday when school officials were forced to cancel classes after parents padlocked the gates. |
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| From the stark opening chords to the unsettling harmonies of the Adagio, the orchestra is assured. |
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| No barrier divides them, but the transition between gardened avenues and ramshackle Swazi township is stark. |
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| As for the proposal, the stark image of the piazza is hardly sympathetic to the trees already on the bank of the Foss. |
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| Many feel cold and stark, which may seem synonymous with sanitary and hygienic but are not. |
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| The architecture sometimes feels a bit stark and soulless, but it's clean and dust free. |
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| But boil away all the froth and you are still left with a residue of stark imbalance in the treatment of the two sides. |
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| They find themselves on a stark, dead planet surrounded by a ruined landscape and petrified flora and fauna. |
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| The book is a stark reminder that the strongest economic boom in US history did not ameliorate widespread impoverishment. |
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| Once stark, empty stores are filled with the things that few can buy, but the mere presence of such luxuries is a comfort. |
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| The many juvenile harriers working the mound wore their orange winter plumage, a stark contrast to the hawk's black, white, and brown feathering. |
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| But at the same time, and often in stark contrast to Goethe, Schiller displayed an inextinguishable sense of the tragic. |
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| The formal references made by this stood in stark contrast to Rhode's relative casualness and the informality of his performance. |
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| This is in stark contrast to the feverish construction activity at the two sites only a few weeks ago. |
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| In stark contrast to Hawaii, colonial law in Fiji enforced a distinctive Fijian way of life. |
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| That doesn't mean you have to like it, but music this stark and astringent seems astonishing in these rigidly conformist times. |
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| He drinks in her delicate features, the fine curve of her jaw, the long lashes veiling her stark blue eyes. |
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| This castle, built in 1622, stands in stark contrast to the English and Scottish architecture of the planters further west in the province. |
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| Comparisons between international law and domestic criminal law do indeed appear stark. |
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| This is in stark contrast to the poetic elegance used to describe the Medieval town of Oxford or the polished sophistication of Singapore. |
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| It was a stark contrast to 12 months ago when the area was cordoned off by police. |
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| Within the series of Fluro artworks, Darragh contrasts the fluorescent colour with the stark white walls of the gallery. |
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| When it comes to the stark lack of footfall, Cooper claims that plans are in place to improve the situation. |
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| I find his poety stark, cold and fairly confronting in it's simplicity and I think this echoes the suffering of the ordinary footslogger. |
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| Thrust together amid the stark, craggy cliffs of the Irish countryside, the three women confront old quarrels. |
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| They looked deserted, stark against the sky with snow sitting untouched on windowsills and the crumbling crenellations. |
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| The situation this day is in stark contrast to those experienced by the founding fathers of Southeast Asian countries. |
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| In stark contrast to so many other dictators, he never encouraged a cult of personality. |
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| It was colored white, a stark contrast to the fuliginous coloring of its companion unit. |
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| Its face, beneath a shaggy fall of raven black curls, was delicately shaped and as stark as bone, with no hint of rosy cheek or kind intention. |
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| He grew up wanting to emulate the majesty of Visconti, the stark realism of Rossellini and the full-blown melodrama of Vincente Minnelli. |
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| So stark were his recent fulminations that I had to rub eyes and re-read his latest expressions of outraged dignity. |
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| An average director would have to punctuate this scene with music or a cutaway or anything to distract us from the stark image. |
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| The brutal cut-outs stand in effective stark contrast to the gentle, slow art of pinhole photography. |
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| It stood in stark contrast to the gaiety and celebration of the previous day at Lake Burley Griffin. |
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| As a stark background, the war-torn Russian populace bitterly voices its utter misery. |
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| Now the parents are issuing a stark warning to other parents, urging them to keep a watchful eye on their children. |
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| This stark and achromatic poem is a world away from the graceful and well-tuned lyrics with which Campbell began his career. |
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| The piece abounds in quotations from Balanchine's leotard ballets, as the master's abstract works are called because of their stark costuming. |
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| His philosophy stands in stark contrast to a business ethic built solely on the acquisition of profit. |
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| The sealed road wends its way across the stark Anti-Atlas and startling scenery appears after Igherm while descending the Akka Valley. |
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| In other words, there are stark differences between the cultures of Adivasis and Dalits. |
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| For Peckinpah, the film was a stark departure from his blood-drenched action westerns. |
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| In stark contrast to the days in which this unseen force served, the boats have now been raised as monuments for all to see. |
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| The prologue opened with a stark black, steeply raked stage with just a chair for Swallow. |
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| Ivory seems to be the colour most brides-to-be are favouring as white may be a little stark in terms of matching accessories. |
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| She slid it open and the first colour she saw was white, a stark, blinding white. |
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| His style is stark and angular, relying heavily on the use of flat colour and silhouettes. |
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| Wimbledon's demise is a stark reality check of where soccer is going in a free market. |
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| She's a master of surprise, able in the wink of an eye to transport the reader from tranquil normality to stark terror. |
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| For you, then, those weeks from just before the winter solstice up until the spring equinox are filled with stark meaning and symbolism. |
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| That is the stark fact facing health chiefs as they meet today to discuss ways of redressing the balance. |
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| On such a stark platform, it isn't until half a dozen songs in that the band really comes alive. |
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| Such Biblical allusion was in stark contrast to the welter of less printable comments being bellowed by the faithful. |
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| He was pale, his freckles stood out in stark relief against the white backdrop of his cheeks and his reddish hair was aflame. |
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| Crimson coated her palm and fingers, standing out in stark relief against the pale of her skin. |
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| Soft candlelight from the hallway played upon the slumbering girl, shining on her hair, and lancing off her stark, milky-white shoulders. |
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| The sound of nearby gunfire interrupts the inspection, a stark reminder of the dangers never far away. |
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| Despite the stark words of the various codes regulating ministerial and MSP conduct, the MSPs of various parties will let the First Minister off. |
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| Philosophically, the term suggests an organic wholeness in stark opposition to the age of mechanical reproduction. |
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| Here, the stark, leafless trees are showing their first spring life, thrusting forth buds of triumphant red. |
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| In Germany huge swathes of the Black Forest died, leaving the stark outlines of leafless conifers in place of the formerly rich vegetation. |
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| In stark contrast to the Anglophile sentiments professed to in the Daily Telegraph, the Hale interview was militantly anti-British in tone. |
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| Tadao Ando's stark concrete walls, for instance, assume the remarkable potency of mass transformed by nature when animated by changing light. |
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| I've stopped in Greenland at least 100 times over the last 25 years, and I'm still dazzled by the stark, primitive beauty of the place. |
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| Liberalism, not conservatism, was the default ideology because Roosevelt made his arguments in stark and clear ideological terms. |
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| The music is stark and odd, composed largely of out-of-tune singing, rhythmless guitar plucking, and merciless assaults on a piano. |
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| The night climb is stark affair, halogen lights casting deep black shadows on every part of the cliff face that isn't brilliantly lit. |
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| It is a book of hard-won wisdom and stark pleasure in the form of 500 lyrical aphorisms and epigrams. |
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| The black fatality of those words seemed to stand out, stark and clear in the deep night, as though limned with her own life's blood. |
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| Her hair is so long that it frames her lithe body beautifully, forming a stark contrast to her fair skin. |
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| Some people are simply not earning enough money to live on and must make stark choices between eating or heating. |
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| Mike Norton, a rookie border patrolman, is a stark contrast to the gentle Melquiades. |
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| It is at this point, where rosy promises of performance are linked to stark dollar amounts, that hackles rise. |
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| The stark and simple truth is that we need to re-assert public control on the runaway consumption of Ireland's main recreational drug. |
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| It is certainly wild, even deserted in most places, but the stark lunar landscape is only part of a rich and varied wilderness. |
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| It certainly will prove a stark contrast to recent league aways the Hatters have enjoyed at the likes of Molineux, Maine Road and Hillsborough. |
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| The interviews with taxidermists were horrifying, astonishing, strangely touching and stark, staring bonkers. |
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| He, by stark contrast, was scabrous and confessional, sexy, vernacular, and totally unpredictable. |
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| Greenland is a country of stark contrasts, where ice and sunshine, greenery and snow are partners against a backdrop of fjords and mountains. |
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| The company performs within an amphitheater of stark, branched miniature tree skeletons painted white. |
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| Rob and I walked slowly along the rows of stark white granite tombstones, each engraved with a Canadian maple leaf. |
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| This runs in stark contrast to the temptation to privatize every resource and turn it into a profitable market. |
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| Down at the foot of Lonsdale Avenue and Esplanade, behind a chain-link fence, the bones of the old Versatile Pacific Shipyard buildings are a stark reminder of the past. |
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| Our adversarial political system, coupled to a five-yearly electoral cycle, is sadly blinkering many politicians and commentators to one stark fact. |
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| This is the only print zine I know of around today, which is a stark difference to the dozens of underground zines that were around back in the day. |
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| He knocked at the 85-year-old woman's door at her home in Sheepridge, Huddersfield, stark naked claiming he had been mugged and his clothes stolen. |
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| Empire State presents a stark black silhouette of the famous landmark against a featureless white sky with an ominous black cloud or shadow impinging. |
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| If you compare that with how difficult it is to find a solid consistent outperformance in the American equity market, the contrast is pretty stark. |
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| The image is almost stark, with the bare stone floor and walls, the simple sweeping plane of the ceiling above, and that remarkable suspended coil of steps. |
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| There is much pedantry, but every so often there is stark beauty. |
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| But it turns out the NSC vetted the written testimony in advance and did not object to his stark line. |
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| When I found it, I discovered I was standing in the corridor outside Nina's room, stark naked, with the need to relieve myself becoming more urgent. |
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| Out of the rigours of this harsh clime emerged a religion of stark simplicity which enjoined good thoughts, good words and good deeds, and respect for the environment. |
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| Bored with the look of your home that seems too stark for your liking? |
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| I swear if I had to stay home every day that I would go stark raving mad. |
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| Hung on a stark frame, it was a mould of her long, lithe body. |
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| Assuming, if you will, that I'm not stark raving mad, there clearly has been some sort of change in the way these sorts of comics are written and drawn. |
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| The artist Alessandro Raho usually drapes his subjects in theatrical clothes but with Dame Judy he has opted for a simple white jacket against a stark white background. |
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| It should be stylish yet classic, sleek and modern, but not stark. |
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| If you lived next to some of these sites you would go stark staring mad. |
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| It all marks a stark change from the rancour of the 1990s, when the two cities were locked in what seemed a never-ending dispute over air pollution. |
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| A recent Pew Poll graphically likewise portrays the stark national divide, and the granular differences are gaping. |
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| The contrast with Russell, who continued the main line of British empiricism, in terms of what might be called the standard analysis, logical atomism, couldn't be more stark. |
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| Lifesavers have issued a stark safety warning after a family's frolics ended in the desperate rescue of a small child whose rubber dinghy was swept out to sea. |
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| In stark contrast to the closed area of the courtyard or the hidden service realm the southern aspect of the house opens itself entirely to the mature garden below. |
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| That was the stark choice outlined by City of York council leader Steve Galloway last week when details of next year's central Government grant to councils were announced. |
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| This is in stark contrast to France, which has taken a color-blind approach to immigration, with newcomers expected to adapt to the culture of the host nation. |
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| But Dr Fox said the decision to release the patients' details stood in stark contrast to Mr Blair's insistence on protecting the medical confidentiality of his own family. |
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| Good god, he really has gone stark raving bonkers, hasn't he? |
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| This is a blatant lie, and a stark example of aggressive male chauvinism. |
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| For in Lynch, much more so than in the work of Cronenberg, the Coens, or Greenway, we confront the beautiful image in stark relation to facticity of the real. |
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| The stance of the residents is a stark contrast to those who feel the project will give a much-needed shot in the arm to the cross-border economy. |
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| Madhu Oberoi's acceptance of her son's career is in stark contrast to Sarada Nair's initial reaction on learning of her teenage son's desire to join the Armed Forces. |
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| These images, videos and messages became a lifeline between two worlds and a stark record of the distance between them. |
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| The fun of the episode, however, stands in stark contrast to its conclusion. |
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| With some areas, the differences are stark in terms of where this windfall lands. |
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| This is in stark contrast to Abbott who in a relatively short life has been through university in Australia and overseas, the seminary, business, journalism and politics. |
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| Shots of the desert are breathtaking, while the battle scenes are also wonderfully portrayed, depicting the stark isolation the soldiers faced being massacred. |
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| In stark contrast to Copi's consciously sub-literary chaos, Jean Rhys's exquisite novel Wide Sargasso Sea is a profound and thought-provoking artwork. |
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| For several moments, the group could only gape at the fierce, stark beauty of the arid desert landscape, the awesome power and majesty of the barren land. |
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| His criticism of the movie stands in stark contrast to the praise it has received from others. |
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| The Asian fusion restaurant is in the Cathedral Quarter, it's exquisite interior in stark contrast to the insalubrious back street it's located on. |
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| A battery of psychological tests administered to me at this time tells the story of my mental status in a stark manner that clearly outlines my assets and deficits. |
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| The old couple that owned it were nauseatingly obsequious, in stark contrast to the indifferent attitude people in the City had towards each other. |
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| That reaction demonstrates the ticklish situation the press finds itself in during wartime, when the interaction between press and government comes into stark relief. |
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| It has given me countless days of joy, a few hours of frustration, a couple minutes of stark terror, and it was even responsible for introducing me to my wife. |
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| The stark, naked idiocy of this notion keeps me up at night. |
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| Despite the stark imagery from the famines of the 1980s, it is well endowed with large areas of cultivatable land as well as mountain ranges, swamps and rain forests. |
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| Sitting in stark contrast, the Scherzo follows with its bold chordal character, leading to the finale which accelerates to a presto before drawing to a close. |
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| This stark palette fades to sepia, then finally emerges into full color. |
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| Keep in mind that blondes and dark-haired brunettes look stunning in hair jewels that are silvery, brilliant white crystal or diamond or have stark white hues. |
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| Then, as a group, they cried out in stark terror and rushed away. |
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| The stark contrast of the nice little pocket book with this harsh reality prevents the reader from becoming totally overwhelmed by how gruesome our reality is. |
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| Halfway down the hill Hector Pieterson was shot and fell, on 16 June, and the spot is now commemorated with a stark stone memorial to the 12-year-old boy. |
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| This campaign will witness a stark battle of dueling strategic viewpoints. |
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| Tocqueville, by stark contrast, does not believe that approach can prevail. |
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| Its stark outline on the abandoned battlefield offers some protection. |
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| The run-down ones stand out stark and skeletonized, yet still meaningful and inspirited like the collected rocks of Stonehenge and the exposed walls of Indian ruins. |
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| This tragedy serves as a stark reminder of the dangers of drunk driving. |
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| Courtney stands in stark contrast to Bianca Del Rio, whose crown it is to lose. |
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| To be sure, there is often a stark dichotomy between so-called opinion leaders and rank and file believers. |
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| The last six months have been a stark reminder of the brutality that lurks at the boundaries of civilized society. |
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| The film opens with a CGI recreation of the flood, featuring aerial shots of the devastation, filmed in stark black-and-white. |
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| In stark contrast to my failure with umbrellabirds was our success and satisfaction of our session with my most-wanted Eurasian bird, the wallcreeper. |
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| But as a genre, Dude Lit has as many reliable attributes as chick lit, with some rather stark differences. |
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| A stark warning was issued this week when a mother and her baby were trapped in their burning home after arsonists torched their only escape route. |
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| The forum provided a stark contrast to the earlier leader's debate, as candidates argued with each other and the audience cheered, booed, and heckled the representatives. |
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| The fence will look truly stark and bare when it's gone, so I shall plant three or four vigorous climbing jasmines along it, water, and retire to a safe distance. |
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| Muscles stood out in stark relief, mute testimony to her effort. |
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| A meaty neigh came out of the man before him, stark naked and on all fours. |
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| The contrast with Ireland is stark, where most listed buildings in our provincial towns are distinguished by plastic windows and inappropriate new shopfronts. |
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| On Thursday afternoon last at 3.30 pm a small number of people were wending their way along Carlow's widest street, in stark contrast to a few years back. |
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| In stark contrast with the sunny personality of his predecessor, Tony Blair, Brown's demeanor is dour, recessive and technocratic. |
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| This stands in stark contrast to those who complain about the fragmented nature of American society, or the seemingly intractably opposed interests of some of its citizens. |
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| They lay stark naked, without a shred of dignity or decency in death. |
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| In whose interest does it serve to make such stark classifications? |
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| The season also throws up stark images of pedestrians, motorists and just about everyone scurrying for cover and kids wet to the skin plying paper boats. |
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| His constant worship of his wife stands in stark contrast to scandals of the domestic nature in other sports. |
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| In Indiana and Pennsylvania, the mismatch between spending and polls is even more stark. |
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| The government will ultimately face the stark reality of raising taxes, cutting spending or inflating the currency to decrease the impact of the debt load. |
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| His bleached Mohawk stood out in stark contrast to his bronzed skin. |
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| The stark reality of being a parent is that there are unfathomable dangers everywhere. |
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| Walk into a state-of-the-art data center, and the stark, white-tile, raised-floor visage doesn't appear substantially changed from the days of keypunches and paper tape. |
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| In this episode of 'darkroom,' we dive into a stark picture of the ensuing violence. |
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| The grim, red-brick health board building couldn't provide a more stark contrast to the French chateau to be used for the reception after Saturday's church wedding near Paris. |
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| She is one of the compositional geniuses of our day, an alchemist who sculpts the raw and powerful forces of nature into a music at once stark and dramatic. |
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| In its humble beginnings, Chart was once a stark eight-page, photocopied, black-and-white fanzine helmed by people who devoted a cover to Sinead O'Connor. |
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| Plante's memoir, American Ghosts, is no less powerful and no less stark. |
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| Although there has clearly been an electoral re-alignment away from the traditional class cleavages, this has not given way to a stark cultural divide. |
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| Yet despite this, his shots are stark, bare and almost devoid of emotion. |
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| The blank background beautifully reflects the tonal differences, conjuring up the stark light of the Mediterranean and the murky tones of America. |
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| I had never heard a voice like his, or lyrics so stark and powerful. |
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| Installed in a stark London gallery, Emin's work symbolized the beach hut as icon of the seaside. |
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| The stark glare reflecting from the screen spread a crazyquilt pattern of light and shadow across the vaulted ceiling above. |
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| The lack of hospital beds in the town is even more stark at the helidrome, where helicopters drop off patients for first aid and assessment. |
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| This isolated pocket of advanced economic development stood in stark contrast to the relative backwardness of most of the country. |
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| This is in stark contrast to many other countries, where the percentage is much higher. |
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| His rational approach to Gothic stood in stark contrast to the revival's romanticist origins. |
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| The early modern period formed a stark contrast to the medieval history of the town. |
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| Adopted at the age of three, Safiya was brought up fully aware of some stark realities, including her congenital disorder, phocomelia. |
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| Lee's film further offers many stark visual binaries as the successful culmination of Malcolm X's protest. |
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| This is in stark contrast to South Korea which had the same starting point when the Korean War finally came to a halt 60 years ago this week. |
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| Now, Ms Lockhart and Lee's sister Lisa believe he was killed by a rogue batch of valium and have issued a stark warning to others. |
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| Thus, grasping this stark reality, I am resigned to a certain amount of disruption as my jalopy splutters through no-go Birmingham. |
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| The platinum blonde wore stark bangs, making sure to shield her eyes at the well-lit event with a pair of dark rounded sunglasses. |
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