1.   Gone are the gray industrial carpeting and the stark white walls.

2.   Sam sat looking at the stark white walls.

3.   Stark concrete walls have been softened by a show of fresh flowers.

4.   Casting a despairing glance around at the stark walls of the interview-room in the police station, she took a deep unsteady breath.

5.   Also featured are works by Warhol, Rodin, Mattise and Picasso in a contemporary museum with light wood floors and stark white walls.

6.   But along Tresser Boulevard, GTE presented only the formidably stark concrete wall of a parking garage.

7.   In Geneva, it is testing a new dealership design whose stark white walls warmed by cherry wood accents and tile floors evoke an Italian boutique.

8.   The handful of Jews employed by the organization work on rented furniture and there are few wall hangings to mar stark white walls.

9.   The mahogany paneling and vivid red, blue and gold fabrics had given way to temporarily stark white walls, waiting for a coat of paint.