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• n  the quality of being complete or utter or extreme
  the starkness of his contrast between justice and fairness was open to many objections
• n  an extreme lack of furnishings or ornamentation
  I was struck by the starkness of my father's room

• No Country for Old Men, in the violence of the behavior it portrays, in the starkness of the moral conflicts it examines, has the potential to veer toward Tarentino-like hysteria.
• But filmmakers evolved a new "code," one that traded starkness for subtlety.
• The best thing about it is its starkness.

• absoluteness
• utterness
• bareness

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• The atrocities of our memories
  The poetic starkness of Juan Gabriel Vasquez' latest novel, “The Sound of Things Falling” — about the climate of Colombia during the onslaught of the drug trade — nearly resembles post-WWII European literature in that it is concerned with both memory and its shaping of individual identity, or rather the identity of an entire generation. Colombia during the 1970s and '80s was indeed a war zone ...
  Sept. 11, 2013 - San Antonio Express-News