starkness

Why not counter the starkness of the cityscape with color and fragrance unique to our region?

Despite the starkness of the messaging, the remarks from the civil defence minister and military chief are being seen as a wake-up call.

But Hill's memory is staggering in its starkness: “There we were in the back of that hearse, Mrs. Kennedy and me,” he says quietly.

Paradoxically, the starkness of Georgia's color line also made the city a welcoming haven for Black people fleeing the harsh poverty and racial violence of the Southern countryside.

And yet, like Douglass at the celebration of a near identical milestone, our hearts are heavy with the starkness of unfulfilled dreams, and the distance between founding ideals and faltering reality.