Sentences with phrase «on stark display»

Hypocrisy is on stark display and it cuts both directions.

With nuclear power, that gradient was on stark display after the Fukushima nuclear crisis, with two passionate environmentalists, Bill McKibben and George Monbiot, drawing entirely different lessons from the post-earthquake events.

The brutal aftermath of the once euphoric Egyptian revolution is on stark display in a powerful New York exhibition that...

The clash was on stark display in March when Gallo and Hoffay, unbeknownst to one another, submitted to the council separate versions of legislation to tighten up the city's ethics rules.

For as much as Churchill's Secret War seems to zero in on decisions taken by the war - time prime minister and his adviser Lord Cherwell, the racism and sheer odium of both of whom is on stark display in the evidence presented by Mukerjee, this book is much more of an indictment of what colonialism was really about than the title suggests.

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And in Prunty's formal verse, there is the grief of «every static face» of the deceased soldiers of Afghanistan and Iraq, who appear in stark display each night on television.

Especially considering the stark contrast in performance Alex put on display in our divisional playoff.

Last night, the stark difference in reality between the views of IDS and the lives of the sick and disabled were on full display.

There were definitely moments I'd have welcomed text - advancing Animal Crossing gibberish over the stark silence consistently on display.

The achievement gap between middle - school students and K — 8 students is put in stark relief in Figure 1, which displays our estimates of the impact of attending a middle school on student achievement as measured by standardized tests in math and English Language Arts.

Despite its slightly stark looks, there's no shortage of creature comforts, with heated leather seats on all models, as well as dual - zone climate control and an infotainment screen that rises from the dashboard top to display navigation and media information.

When I tried to draw with my fingers on the tablet display in MS Paint, I saw a stark latency on the screen, as it was unable to keep up with my digits.

A stark example of this fact was displayed during the overall market downturn in 2002, when nondividend - paying stocks fell by an average of 30 %, while dividend - paying stocks only declined on average by 10 %.

Similarly, the distinctive and highly acclaimed inkjet - printed paintings of Wade Guyton on the first floor — with a suite of his striking flame canvases shown in a wood - paneled den and another of his stark white paintings on display in a barren, decrepit room — are testimony to this brand of work's seductiveness and popularity.

Their stark whiteness casts no «cinematic» shadow on its subjects, and in video perfection, imperfections of the subject are clearly and initially displayed.

Currently on view in two large galleries, stark works in sand colors, geometrics, in brown felt material, in bright neon, the exhibition displays art from the collection of Bridgehampton resident Leonard Ruggio, whose passion is minimalism, a midcentury movement that challenges our notions of the types of materials can be used in art, and in fact our traditional notions of beauty.

And its visual correlative — stark black enamel stripes arranged in a predetermined symmetrical pattern — is the work of a precocious smart aleck (whose youthful callowness is also on display in the title of the 1958 Black Painting, «Arbeit Macht Frei») demonstrating the true condition of the art form.

Displayed in stark white - on - white galleries, the sealed vitrines become hermetic environments for contemplation or even mourning as these silenced objects of ritual, play, and aesthetic devotion seem to have reached some form of transcendent afterlife.

James is known for his stark black paper - cuts, displayed without frames on white walls to insinuate shadows and depth in his 2D world.

Instead the focus is on deep blacks and brightness, thanks to an OLED panel - which individually illuminates pixels for a stark black - to - white contrast - and HDR10 capabilities for high dynamic range display (at a purported 730 - nits - not a measurement we can confirm, but it looks good to us).