I have come to the world, stark naked; am I to go back, in a blink, in the same stark nakedness?
But the Chinese gender ratio at birth is much more stark.
The virtual collapse of the company destroyed his career, and was a stark case study of how real companies cannot prosper simply by sacking staff, using bullish accounting policies and playing M&A games.
Greenery in offices boosts work output by 15 percent, and challenges 'the lean philosophy' which holds that stark, uncluttered buildings are best for concentration.
Add to this that Gray, the new man, had his face tied up in a bandage for a cut he had got in breaking away from the mutineers and that poor old Tom Redruth, still unburied, lay along the wall, stiff and stark, under the Union Jack.
Because in the real world, you had to look for a job, and competition was stark.
But the contrast could not be more stark.
She was, however, happy to hold a tiny replica and beamed as she met cast members, among them Kit Harington who plays Jon Snow, Lena Headey who plays Queen Cersei Lannister and Sophie Turner who plays Sansa Stark.
There is a stark beauty to all of this.
His clothe sour with years of sweat And animal contact, shock the refined, But affected, sense with their stark naturalness.
--Lord Eddard Stark ,.