starkness

1 The starkness of the paradox is reinforced by the diction and meter: short, simple words, a stressed monosyllable followed by six iambic feet* Most people are never going to die.

2 The suggestion is that Lifehouse, an operation that long ago found its working formula, has regrouped with a new starkness; that the stakes are somehow higher, and the payoff more grimly satisfying, than before.

3 Warwick Thornton Australian director Warwick Thornton has crafted a superb movie – Old Testament cinema, with an almost biblical starkness in its cruelty and mysterious beauty.

4 By contrast, the climactic confrontation between the quartet of lovers acquires the starkness of Greek tragedy as they are ranged en masse against each other.

5 The first thing you notice as you enter it is the contrast between the starkness of the white slabs and the rough, uneven surface of the earth.

6 Her voice, which once had a chalky, loud, unwieldy starkness of tone that excited many listeners but turned off others, has mellowed in recent years.

7 The flickering density occasionally dissipates into starkness, and occasionally accumulates into driving motion.

8 Even though they were out of the wind, the room did not feel much warmer, and Pinmei was surprised by its starkness.

9 The room was decorated with stark simplicity.

10 I enjoy the starkness and quietness of drawings.

11 “Something more primal, almost Greek in its archaic power, is at stake in ‘Winter’s Bone,’ and its visual and emotional starkness do not feel like simple badges of authenticity.”

12 The first challenge of the writer is to channel a feeling, a sensation, into the starkness of a sentence that can at best only approximate the experience it seeks to describe.

13 This may have to do with the bright lighting — butchers need to be able to see to do their work — or the relative starkness of the atmosphere.

14 “The ability to see beauty in winter starkness is less developed there.”

15 The results evoke both the wonder and the starkness, even harshness, of the natural world — as well as suggest, inevitably, the specter of the climate crisis.

16 Those afflicted with the stark problem of how to keep on living.

受维持生计的严酷问题困扰的那些人们。

17 Think of the street-level starkness of Italian neo-realist works like Bicycle Thieves or Battle of Algiers, or the disillusioned anxiety of 1970s American paranoia thrillers.

18 The starkness of their living conditions shocked him.

他们的生活条件一无所有,他感到十分震惊.

19 It’s really about the starkness of the chair sitting there, on nothing.

20 In this distant and extreme terrain , the fundamental story of our time is being told afresh. Here it is possible to see , with a clarifying starkness, how tightly woven our new world really is .

在这片遥远且极端的土地，你经年累月积起的基本法则统统需要改写，在这儿你会看到我们的新世界被一种粗砺打磨得多么朴实无华。

1 率直

blunt candid candidly candidness

2 荒凉

wild stark solitary bleak inhospitable forlorn gaunt godforsaken desolation wildness

3 纯然

simple

4 简朴

simple clinical severe plain spare modest sparse Spartan unpretentious abstemious simply severely plainly modestly sparsely simplicity severity modesty plainness sparseness

5 僵硬

wooden stiff stark starkly stiffly woodenly stiffness rigidness stiffen

6 严厉

fulminous hard blue firm smart tough exact severe sharp crucial strict harsh bitter rigid imperative stern grim exacting pungent grueling astringent dour inclement unsparing strictly sharply keenly cruelly starkly roundly sternly stringently dourly humorlessly scathingly unsparingly austerely hardness rigor astringency stringency inclemency humorlessness austereness severeness hard as iron