Even without the steam - it disappeared a few years later - the valley is surreal and starkly beautiful.

His face shone unadorned like a star, starkly beautiful.

He had a starkly beautiful face, lean and chiseled and cold.

The druid, starkly beautiful in her terror, sat up in the bed.

She was starkly beautiful, with hair like fine-spun iron, and stern purpose on her visage.

The 20th and early 21st centuries have, in fact, done little to alter the remoteness of this starkly beautiful region.

The scenery was starkly beautiful, ancient and full of mystery.

The journey proceeds through starkly beautiful desert, and the images are startling.

While the once groundbreaking animation now looks a little clumsy in these days of full body motion capture, it remains a starkly beautiful experience.

The desert is starkly beautiful with its endless dunes and scrubby little bushes.