It rises starkly from steep slopes topped by crags and its striking appearance is emphasised by detached isolation.

It was the unmistakable exterior of a military jail, complete with two tall bamboo-built watchtowers containing searchlights, rising starkly above gray stone walls 15 feet high.

Rising starkly out of the ocean, Corvo has no beaches, no hotels and no restaurants.

The building was a thousand feet in height rising starkly from a square base two miles on a side.

Farther still, where the ridges rose starkly against the skyline, he heard the low thunder of chopper blades.

Guard towers rise starkly against the cold, overcast sky from each corner of the grounds.

All at once, the realization rose starkly.

It rises starkly on a 150-foot-high rocky hill in the middle of town, the supposed exact geographical center of the Canton of Ticino.

Cat and Jack stood still, side by side, the outlines of the great house they would now never live in rising starkly up behind them against the gray clouds and lightning.

Mountains of black plastic garbage bags rose starkly off the gray concrete, uncollected for days due to a strike.