In the end, all they could come up with was the striking but simple image of "buildings standing starkly on the landscape, like figures in the rain."

She stood starkly alone.

It had been stripped of its canvas covering by looters and stood starkly in the afternoon sun.

From the bows, she had a forecastle where a water-closet stood starkly between the chain locker and the cooking galley.

Each time she came here she marveled at how it rose up out of the landscape and stood starkly against the red soil and the hot white sky.

Above the sharply rising hillside, the grass on its sides cropped short by sheep, the Monument stood starkly.

A northwest wind tugged the last of the autumn leaves from the oaks and maples that stood starkly against the blue sky.

The statue of the unknown man stood starkly on its base in the center of the square.

The hair on her arms stood starkly erect.

The courthouse still stood starkly against the last light of the day.