(adv.) Wholly; entirely; absolutely; quite; as, stark mind.
(v. t.) To stiffen.
Example Sentences:
(1) World leaders must reach a historic agreement to fight climate change and poverty at coming talks in Paris, facing the stark choice to either “improve or destroy the environment”, Pope Francis said in Africa on Thursday.
(2) Facebook Twitter Pinterest No shake: Donald Trump snubs Angela Merkel during photo op The piece of pantomime was in stark contrast to the visit of Theresa May in January.
(3) But as a former Eurocrat, he is well-versed in the weaknesses and believes it is right to highlight them in stark language.
(4) These achievements, and faults, will find stark contrast with Trump’s administration; certainly Trump’s nominations for key positions in his cabinet that relate to climate change have prompted alarm by experts and campaigners.
(5) An ethnic breakdown of other opinion-formers, from book reviewers to theatre critics, would be just as stark.
(6) Paul*, from Essex, a father of two daughters, has experienced those starkly differing standards.
(7) Friends of the Earth's executive director, Andy Atkins, said: "We can't continue to ignore the stark warnings of the catastrophic consequences of climate change on the lives and livelihoods of people across the planet.
(8) She went on to deliver a stark warning that leaving the single market would deter international investors from Britain and lead major companies to question whether they should relocate to mainland Europe.
(9) This was in stark contrast to my comprehensive school.
(10) Their differences highlight Northern Ireland’s often stark dichotomy between religious-based social conservatism and secular progressive liberalism.
(11) By global city standards even those are quite clean and orderly, but compared with the rest of the city they offer a stark contrast.
(12) Dig deeper into the funding numbers – the real story of national politics in the post Citizens United age – and the Tea Party realignment of the GOP stands out yet more starkly.
(13) The inequalities that have been allowed to emerge in this one street are so stark they recall an era as long past as the period of its houses.
(14) A glance at today's Sun provides a stark reminder that constitutional reform is no way to win easy plaudits from the papers that most voters read.
(15) Although the Kyoto agreement only measures production, the stark difference in the figures highlights a key controversy in negotiations about a new treaty – which will continue at a big UN meeting in Cancún, Mexico, in December : some developing countries, such as China, argue they should not be held responsible for emissions generated by consumption in rich nations.
(16) It is a stark contrast to expectations before the vote to leave the EU, when the next move in interest rates was seen as likely to be upwards.
(17) The next few days may well determine whether, this time, such loyalty will be in vain; but, while yearning for a clarion call and what was described as "vision" in this paper's leading article yesterday, I need to pose some pretty stark questions to Guardian readers.
(18) They included Lena Heady (Queen Cersei Lannister), Kit Harington (Jon Snow), Conleth Hill (Lord Varys), Rose Leslie (Ygritte), 17-year-old Maisie Williams (Arya Stark) and 18-year-old Sophie Turner (Sansa Stark).
(19) The orderly village of Agulodiek in Ethiopia's western Gambella region stands in stark contrast to Elay, a settlement 5km west of Gambella town, where collapsed straw huts strewn with cracked clay pots lie among a tangle of bushes.
(20) The next three years of negotiations on the treaty will be the hardest in the 20-year history of climate change talks because the world has changed enormously since 1992, when the UN convention on climate change was signed, and 1997, when the Kyoto protocol enshrined a stark division between developed countries – which were required to cut emissions – and developing countries, which were not.
Unadulterated
Definition:
(a.) Not adulterated; pure.
Example Sentences:
(1) The top 10 is light on unadulterated goodness, with only Pip and Joe Gargery from Great Expectations and Betsey Trotwood from David Copperfield representing the kinder faces among the Dickensian ranks.
(2) And it is not from excitement: it is from sheer, unadulterated terror.
(3) In the 3 mixture groups, blood F and bone F were lowered, while blood F was restored to normal level, but bone F was not nevertheless, the results showed that Al was in antagonism to the absorption of F. In the unadulterated Al groups, blood and bone Al did not parallel with the amount of Al administered.
(4) They were stimulated by puffs of odors of pure eucalyptol, unadulterated food, and EF and recorded in hungry and satiated states.
(5) So it would have been pure, unadulterated spin to announce some interesting female appointments first and thus change the angle of the story.
(6) Inhaling deeply from a large joint of unadulterated cannabis, Marcelo Vasquez grins at the imminent prospect of his outlawed passion becoming Uruguay's newest state-sanctioned industry.
(7) Is Google deliberately using Peston's blog to demonstrate how the European judges' scheme, aimed at enabling us all to shake off the candid photography of stag dos past, might result in unadulterated censorship?
(8) If we accept this description of asylum seekers (what Agamben calls homo sacer ) then the spectacle of members of parliament crying over asylum seekers who drowned off Christmas Island was nothing more than unadulterated narcissism: “It makes me, a powerful elected member of government, upset to see that the legal structure I help perpetuate causes an utterly powerless person to either drown or be tortured.” They are actually worse than North, who in Clarke’s novel at least has the decency to be ashamed at his failure.
(9) They were then tested for a preference between the cued environment and unadulterated wood shavings.
(10) In Phase 1, all rats were fed wet mash adulterated with increasing concentrations of quinine sulfate every other day, and fed unadulterated wet mash on the alternate days.
(11) Yet the celebration – even here in Tallahassee, Florida, where Seminole football is practically the state religion – is not unadulterated.
(12) Lincoln is measured, respectful and quietly reassuring; unadulterated awards catnip.
(13) This test has a virtual 100% true-negative rate as long as an unadulterated urine specimen is analyzed.
(14) His only agenda in life is to disseminate unadulterated facts in a hopefully unbiased way.” Another man approaches: “Got any spare cash?” He hasn’t, because he’s celebrity royalty.
(15) The results showed that the level of F in the blood and bone in the unadulterated F group was increased, especially F in the bone reached a level more than 10 times that of the control.
(16) Increasing the palatability of the alcohol solution by the addition of saccharin enhanced consumption substantially such that the blood alcohol levels (BALS) achieved were more than twice those of animals which had drunk unadulterated alcohol.
(17) Labour is simply stumbling falteringly toward something that voters can already plump for in unadulterated form by voting Green.
(18) Group LH consumed a significantly lower proportion of quinine-adulterated wet mash relative to unadulterated wet mash, displaying a steeper concentration-response function and a lower rejection threshold than did Group C. In Phase 2, Groups LH and C were maintained exclusively on quinine-adulterated mash for 20 days.
(19) What an unadulterated joy it is to see Bruce Dern leading a movie for a change – and a good movie, at that.
(20) This isn't scepticism, it's unadulterated denialism, the very antithesis of critical thought.