There's a lightness about the look of silver jewelry that complements lightweight clothing, especially this year's stark black and white styles.

Even the art of still life in Spain, the bodegón, was often painted in a similar stark and austere style.

French designs, also dating from the 19th century, are being reproduced in styles both curvy and stark.

She could be called the mother of minimalism because her stark style since starting in 1981 has been so consistent, and her collection so pared down.

An experimental writer, Collobert wrote prose poems in a haunting, pessimistic, tense and stark style.

Gilded carving covered both the only chair-no one sat in her presence now-and the writing table, but in the stark style of Cairhien.

As a storyteller, Mr. Say has a stark, terse style.

She joined a Butoh troupe, studying the stark, morbid style of Japanese dance, and learned to keep her eyes open for 40 minutes at a time.

The room's stark style helped the captain to concentrate.

His work precedes that of Patrick Nagel, who had a similarly stark style.