6 sentences with “stark”

That day, the St Bartholomew's Day massacre, would live in infamy in French history as a stark example of religion-fuelled hatred.

In stark contrast to Roman tactics, Persia relied on cavalry rather than infantry, including both heavy, armoured spearmen and highly mobile mounted archers.

Perhaps the most fundamental belief of liberalism was that there should be equality before the law, in stark contrast to the old "feudal" (almost a slur to liberals) order of legally defined social classes.

Like the Greeks before them, the Romans also divided civilisation into a stark binary: on one side was Greco-Roman culture and on the other barbarism, although they sometimes made a grudging exception in the case of Persia.

In short, in stark contrast to the advances in astronomy that demonstrated that the Earth is not at the centre of the cosmos, it was easier to overturn the entire view of the universe than to alter sex roles and stereotypes.

However, there is at least some evidence that gender divisions may not have been as stark as male commentators would have it - as noted below, at least one Greek playwright celebrated the wit and fortitude of women in their work.