At last she found herself staring at stark truth, in the form of a simple final message.

But the stark truth was that Kate was all she had.

"If I shielded you from the stark truth, it was to ease your fear."

Here must be a time of openness, of stark truth.

I clouded the stark truth as we often do for our children.

The stark truth of black letters on a blank screen makes it hard to hide.

We have to face the stark truth that nuclear proliferation remains the major threat to world safety.

The stark truth is that social democracy became a victim of its own success.

There are stark truths that none of us like to think about.

And the stark truth was that there was no comfort to be had.