Definition of "starkly" [stark•ly]

• With great contrast (adverb)

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• "It also has amazing cinematography, in starkly beautiful black-and-white."
• "Combining interviews with fictional and real-life combatants of the 1982 Lebanon War, filmmaker Ari Folman recreates various recollections in starkly dark vignettes that mix the boldly outlined and clean appearance of internet Flash cartoons with the fluidity of traditional animation."
• "And even Orange County Democrat Rep. Loretta Sanchez, who is fighting to keep her seat, got on Univision and pit her Latino base against their more conservative Vietnamese neighbors in starkly racial terms."