It is a stark admission from the man in charge of a squad that has been assembled so expensively over the past decade.

Bracing at the stark admission, Riker leaned forward, his voice taking on a hint of menace.

The stark admission echoed in the vast silences of the room.

It was a stark admission of failure, unusual in summit annals.

Surprised by the stark admission, Soong lowered his head until he could study the battle-scarred Andorian over the rims of his mirrored glasses.

"I see," La Forge said in a soft voice, finding himself taken aback by his friend's stark admission.

The computer's stark admission of inadequacy fired Kirk into new, creative thought.

Albright once told me, "I'm not that smart; I work very hard," a stark admission she says here she came to regret.

Mr. Sarkozy's stark admission broke a cardinal rule in this country: flaunting one's ambition and one's wealth is, uh, gauche.

It was a stark public admission that the commitment to change voiced by Arab leaders risks becoming just more words.