Sentences with phrase «stark picture of»

If nothing else it paints a stark picture of Facecbook's regard (or lack thereof) for its users» personal data.

Norway's foreign minister, Jonas Gahr Stoere, painted a stark picture of the climate change in the Arctic and Antarctic regions.

Instead, they paint a stark picture of rising temperatures causing floods and wildfires, food and water shortages, damage to human health, and widespread disruption of services and destruction of roads, railways bridges and buildings.

«The World Bank itself has laid out a stark picture of what a world with four degrees of warming looks like, yet it continues to pump billions into projects exploring for new fossil fuel resources that must not be burned in any reasonably safe climate scenario,» said Elizabeth Bast, Managing Director of Oil Change International and co-author of today's analysis.

America's Most Endangered Rivers of 2018 highlights critical upcoming decisions and paints a stark picture of what's at stake.

Yousef Al - Mohaimeed's haunting and enigmatic novel, his first published outside Saudi Arabia after being banned there, offers a stark picture of that society.The central character of Wolves of the Crescent...

Recently, the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights (2018) issued a 150 - page report that paints a stark picture of the funding inequities that exist among state education systems.

The first act paints a stark picture of a man who desires to control his life to the smallest degree, living in a perfectly sanitized townhouse with a cadre of seamstresses who visit each day to make his designs a reality.

Like many westerns, «Django Unchained» latches onto a simple, stark picture of good and evil, and takes homicidal vengeance as the highest — if not the only — form of justice.

A report from the World Bank, also published this week, paints a stark picture of a 4 °C warmer world riven by severe heatwaves, floods and droughts.

The report, released today, documents some improvements but it paints a stark picture of an institution which is failing young people and a custodial operation which is unfit for vulnerable young people.

Well, it won't be so funny after I connect the dots and unveil a stark picture of a country whose impaired educational system is producing citizens that are not ready for the demands of a knowledge economy.

Mr Lammy - who has campaigned doggedly on the Windrush scandal - today painted a stark picture of the possible fate of those British citizens who may have been sent overseas.

Bolt's inspection report, carried out throughout 2017, paints a stark picture of a scheme that is causing real harm to migrants - both documented and undocumented - people from ethnic minority backgrounds, and society at large.

It is a stark picture of rank inequality; the backdrop for revolution, but also a mirror to the real world.

The indictment laid out a stark picture of how the Russians carried out the scheme, which the court filing said they undertook with the specific purpose of boosting Trump and denigrating his opponent.

Not exact matches

If one omits the happy ending of Stage 7 (which Joan Jackson could include because her study was done in an AA wife's group), and translates the language of the social scientist into the parlance of everyday living, one has a picture of the starkest interpersonal tragedy.

According to the Daily Mail Blair's hair loss in 2006 was a «stark reminder of the pressures of high office» when compared to pictures of his former self.

«These new stark picture warnings emphasise the harsh health realities of continuing to smoke.

The picture was a stark contrast to that of Singh as the gregarious founder of dozens of restaurants stretching from Water's Edge in Long Island City, Queens, to H.R. Singletons in Bethpage and beach concessions in Brookhaven and Oyster Bay.

As NASA's Curiosity rover scours the surface of Mars and beams pictures of the stark and desolate landscape back to Earth, we've begun to paint a picture of what living on the red planet might actually be like.

SeekingArrangement founder Brandon Wade's website greets you with the stark quote «Love is a concept invented by poor people,» next to a picture of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology grad, smiling coyly.

Zombie's sense of space is wonderful — in stark contrast to the first picture, where each kill is a magnificent but almost dreamily disconnected set - piece, here you feel as though Myers is moving willy - nilly from home - to - home in suburban Haddonfield, guided by voices.

Naturally, they haven't got much; and the rest of the picture is largely a comedy of stark, gruesome errors as both men discover just how drastically the single world has passed them by.

The glaring lack of non-white faces across the board — especially stark the year after the best picture victory for 12 Years a Slave — was bemoaned on social media.

The picture - postcard beauty of the imagery is in stark contrast to a storyline, which, for all Lili's courage and determination to find her true self, is often bleak in the extreme.

The picture is starker when looking at the participation of women in leadership roles — particularly for schools.

«The National School Boards Association is honored to partner with Fox Searchlight Pictures and Penguin Books to ensure that every public high school student in America has the opportunity to stare the stark realities of slavery in the eye through books and film,» said NSBA President David A. Pickler.

Duncan explained that results for the U.S. are «straightforward and stark: It is a picture of educational stagnation.»

With a land - speed record out of the picture, those intangible virtues become more apparent as we tootle north on Queen Kaahumanu Highway 19 through the stark, black lava fields covering the Kohala Coast's lap of luxury (boasting Four Seasons, Kona Village, Mauna Lani, and Orchid resorts), breaking due east at the Kawaihae Harbor (after lunch at Cafe Pesto) to climb swiftly into the blustery Kohala uplands through the vast Parker Ranch lands.

The stark contrast between buildings and the blue sky stood out in a picture of the New York City skyline.

Picture this, a coastal strip where stark beaches fold into undulating farmlands and two of Australia's top ten golf courses are carved out of the extraordinary landscape.

If you've seen pictures of the Untold Entertainment offices, you'll know it's a veritable shrine to the glory days of LucasArts graphic adventure games, back when story and character development and humour ruled the day (in stark contrast to today, when all three of those elements are routinely botched and butchered — almost deliberately, it sometimes seems).

The former explores two «narratives»: the first depicting a young Grenadian man, sat at the prow of a boat on the Caribbean, playfully taunting the camera in a pared down form of cinema - verité; the second a Grenadian cemetery, a stark, morbid flip - side to conventional picture - postcard conceptions of the island.

Imposing stark material and formal limitations, De Keyser was able to revisit in this body of work many of the major themes that occupied him throughout his nearly 50 - year career: inconspicuous things close at hand, the landscape of the low lands where he lived all his life and the partition of the picture plane.

The fiery red of the doctor's cloak contrasts brilliantly with a stark leafless tree behind him, while warm russet faces look out of the picture with a glow of winter cheer.

In the image on the right the polyhedron appears stationary, one of its stark white faces parallel to the picture plane.

This picture is pleasing on a whole host of levels, from the way the mylar's reflection approximates the veining of green marble to the stark haptic contrast between the metallic sheet and the rough fabric in the background.

Not only was Fontana's stark new dimension symbolic of the movement away from the picture and towards the mental act, his accompanying discourse of «the void» — which he spread personally across continents and generations — describes the appeal of the abstract white relief.

These radically unpopulated pictures, all shot from the same horizon line, are feats of technical precision and sublime beauty; their «emptiness» stands in stark contrast to the fullness of the political pictures.

Among the show's other notable works is George Condo's Homage to Manet, 1985, an oil painting that references the work of the great impressionist painter, and which stands in stark contrast to Andy Warhol's exploration of colour and blurring of commercial and fine - art lines in Reflected (Purple, Red, Green and Yellow on Black), 1982 (fourth picture).

Penn's pictures reveal a modernist instinct for stark simplicity whether he was photographing celebrities, fashion models, still lifes or people in remote places of the world.

Stylistically, her proclivity for stark backdrops and sensual palettes in her portraiture (she balks at the word «portraiture,» instead preferring the term «pictures of people») have linked her to David Hockney and Alex Katz.

Her pictures range in spirit from the stark, pared - down images of the 1960's, which sometimes consist of just two or three bright banners of color unfurled against the bare whiteness of the canvas, to the more baroque images of the 80's, whose dense, flooded surfaces at times suggest underwater scenes.

That Goldenberg gets the scientific facts wrong, and struggles to interpret them correctly, and fails to subject her own stark misapprehension to scrutiny, is only half the story — she then uses her own confusion to create a picture of political conspiracies against scientific truth.

What makes this so stark, and telling, is that it paints a picture of a budding company that has a whole lot of eggs in one basket, which happens to be another still budding company.

As you can see in the picture below, all but one of the cases are for the larger Galaxy S9 +, with a cutout for the dual rear cameras standing out in stark contrast to the single - camera cutout for the regular S9.

The recent events surrounding Exit Realty on the Rock seem to be in stark contrast to the picture of a Franchise Brokerage that was publicly projected as not being just any Brokerage within the Exit system — far from it!