starkness
Noun
Meaning
The quality or state of being stark.
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Also in the 1980s the band Frankie Goes to Hollywood released a political pop protest song Two Tribes a relentless bass driven track depicting the futility and starkness of nuclear weapons and the Cold War.
Themes In Contemporary Literary Criticism, the editors state that "Frost's best work explores fundamental questions of existence, depicting with chilling starkness the loneliness of the individual in an indifferent universe."
There is something powerful to me about paring the elements of a story down to this degree—like removing the flesh and the muscle to reveal the angularity and starkness of the bones.
The blue hue serves to soften the starkness of the images, giving a dreamlike mood to the rapidly shifting number of worlds that they visit.