Without embellishment

Usage examples of starkly.

It seemed strange to her, seeing its restlessness contrasted so starkly with the autumnal calm that lay elsewhere.

Maia took long, shuddering gasps as blurry shapes congealed into silhouettes and finally soot-streaked faces, starkly outlined by swaying bulbs.

Holy Orders than a boy of thirteen: a richly illuminated Book of Hours, a rosewood and silver crucifix worthy of a cathedral chapel, a relic of the martyred Saint Willim sealed in a crystal reliquary, and from Hubert, a starkly functional silver chalice and paten and a chasuble of creamy wool, surprisingly plain compared to the other gifts.

Never since his youth had Klein been left so starkly and so solitarily to his emotions.

The torches at bow and stern of the boat flickered in the sulphury breeze, sometimes casting only a dim red glow and at others flaring up to illuminate starkly every stone of the arched ceiling passing by close overhead.

I wondered if the visitors to the other rooms of the Museum realized, as I realized, that despite the blazing sunlight of tropical London, the shadow of Hassan of Aleppo lay starkly on that haunted building?

Brother Gorst nodded shyly and the harsh light glinted starkly off his fangs.

This craggy ridgeline rose starkly above the trees, a jumbled mass of natural rock pale in color and pockmarked by openings, steps, niches, overhangs, and what looked like windows carved into the upper reaches of the little crags.

The English phonemes sounded starkly alien as they echoed through his mind, and he wondered if he was even getting them right.

Beyond, a row of Lower East Side brownstones stood starkly in the brilliant afternoon light.

It was starkly bare, empty except for a large slab of veinless white stone, supported by four plain standards of the same immaculate stone.

And there, as if the big greengrocer in the sky, he who smiles favorably on all such hegiras, had finally come back into the office and noticed Arlo's button lit on the board, and sent her to him--there she stood, limned by the fluorescents of dalliance, lush in the simplicity of her skintight yellow ochre capris, seen through a glass starkly, wrestling with a grocery cart in the immense front window of Ralph's.

Clay tried to get a clear look at India outside, but all he could see in the starkly shadowed street were the crisscrossings of three-wheeled taxis and human-drawn rickshaws.

The strong slant of his cheekbones and his starkly defined mouth were heightened rather than blurred by his smile.

However, if to this picture of declining durations we add the factor of diversity--the recognition that each new human relationship requires a different pattern of behavior from us--one thing becomes starkly clear: to be able to make these increasingly numerous and rapid on-off clicks in our interpersonal lives we must be able to operate at a level of adaptability never before asked of human beings.