Satellite imagery spanning four decades reveals a stark retreat and thinning of this once-massive ice formation.
Nothing seemed to flourish on this exposed height except bracken, sheep, and boulders that, from a distance, resembled sheep; there was no tree, scarcely a shrub; the immense contours, stark, grim, and unrelieved, rose in melancholy and defiant majesty against the sky: the hand of man could coax no harvest from these smooth but obdurate slopes; they had never relented, and they would never relent.
Already that part of the Green Forest where he had chosen to live had many bare stark trees, killed that Prickly Porky the Porcupine might live.
" "We might all have been found frozen stark and stiff this morning," remarked the Story Girl with apparent relish.
Blame was out of the question—advice was not needed—sympathy was mocked by the man's stark agony.
The sky was sharp and blue; the snow diamonds sparkled insistently; the stark trees were bare and shameless, with a kind of brazen beauty; the hills shot assaulting lances of crystal.
The lattice, flapping to and fro, had grazed one hand that rested on the sill; no blood trickled from the broken skin, and when I put my fingers to it, I could doubt no more: he was dead and stark!
I sent for Kenneth, and he came; but not till the beast had changed into carrion: he was both dead and cold, and stark; and so you'll allow it was useless making more stir about him!
She was suckling a new-born child, and another child, stark naked, was playing at her feet.
Of course Valancy must be stark mad.
In another flash of desperate, stark honesty she owned to herself that she was merely envious.
She came at once upon a handsomely engraved and colored frontispiece—a human figure, stark naked.
Here, then, is the problem which I present to you, stark and dreadful and inescapable: Shall we put an end to the human race1 or shall mankind renounce war?
"She notes the stark contrast between the typically lithe light and muscular physique of a dancer, and the softer, rounder contours of a pregnant woman, and delights in it.
Pandemics such as coronavirus are the result of humanity's destruction of nature, according to leaders at the UN, WHO and WWF International, and the world has been ignoring this stark reality for decades.
But there are stark differences within regions.
Nearby, a neon cleaner wrasse also wears stark stripes.
The numbers are even more stark when broken down by age group: 91% of baby boomers said they tip restaurant staff, while only 81% of Gen Xers and 72% of millennials said the same.
That is the stark warning of meteorologists around the world, who say the next-generation wireless system now being rolled out across the globe is likely to disrupt the delicate satellite instruments they use to monitor changes in the atmosphere.
Interestingly, there was a stark gender difference in the way the text messages were perceived.
