Starkly

Ziri took Rima aside and starkly asked her what she was doing there.

It's the year 2154, and the world is starkly divided between the haves and the have-nots.

The referendum is non-binding, but the result will have to be validated by a general election later this year, and the island nation's two major political parties have staked out starkly contrasting positions.

The dark mountains stood out starkly against the pale sky.

We initially came to this data collection technique through research conducted into the linguistic landscape at NIE which yielded an overwhelmingly English-biased signage which was starkly at odds with our own day-to-day experience at the institute.