In Norwegian Wood, the colours – all rich, golden amber tones when Naoko, Toru and Kizuki are together in high school and harsher, bluer hues when the story takes a harsher turn – are little short of beautiful.
New York has taken an especially harsh turn in its homeless policy: it is now refusing emergency overnight shelter to certain families who have no place else to go.
Page A6 TWITTER PROJECT'S HARSH TURN A Swedish experiment in social media democracy went sour after the latest average citizen allowed to post a week's worth of thoughts to a national Twitter account made comments about Jews that many found objectionable.
If anybody was sowing chaos in Washington this weekend, it was not the protesters but President Trump, with his "shithole" comment and the subsequent harsh turn on immigration that he and his allies in Congress had taken, thwarting talks to move a budget and resulting in a government shutdown, which began at midnight on Friday.
Then Xing Li's life takes an even harsher turn: the school bullying escalates and her uncle requests she assist him in an unthinkable favour.
You are going over steep bridges, making all these harsh turns.
They struggle to stay together despite the constant intrusions and objections of their parents, but their lives take some harsh turns, including Deanie's suicide attempt and institutionalization. Splendor in the Grass refuses to provide the kind of contrived, happy ending that one might expect, and its sobering story line creates a number of dramatic sequences for its talented young leads.
Then, toward the end of the picture, by some trick of the light, the rain began again, and the people waved and swam, as if they were drowning fast, and the sound broke down with a harsh cry that turned into a wailing, like the wind in the top branches of a tree.
The lawsuit is the harshest turn yet in one of the most bitter buyout fights this year.
It can take a harsh, complicated reality and turn it into bite-size portions that are easier to digest.
