1.   Each beetle is photographed against a stark white background.

2.   Her later paintings were characterized by stark white backgrounds.

3.   Her agent of change is an unlikely one, but undeniably powerful -- lustrous color photographs of imperiled plants and animals set against stark backgrounds of black or white.

4.   Positioned in front of a stark blue background, Allen initially fidgeted with the collar of his seersucker jacket and nervously jiggled his earpiece.

5.   Stark background.

6.   In a stark background of unemployment, poverty and domestic violence, they easily lure women with promises of prosperity abroad.

7.   Most Hong Kong newspapers ran large front page pictures of Deng, and printed headlines with stark black backgrounds.