0 the quality of being empty, simple, or clear, especially without decoration or anything that is not necessary: --
The alternatives are set before us with unusual starkness.
Despite the starkness of the furnishings, the room is quite comfortable.
Nothing shows the starkness of that betrayal more than the rhetoric on lone parents before and after the general election.
We do not realise with sufficient starkness the way in which this nuisance of aircraft noise gets hold of people.
I was thinking of getting their views and making use of the landowners and farmers, and not just of the starkness of an agreement.
The report highlights with frightening starkness the problems of microbiological resistance.
The other fact that has to be got over in all its starkness and in all its implications is the failure in our manufacturing industry.
Perhaps there was not sufficient precision or starkness in my reply about the disadvantaged.
It is the figures in their starkness which call for explanation.
We see now, in all its starkness and misery, the absurdity of the decision that was taken last year.
