Sentence examples for a harshness from inspiring English sources

And some of her rapid staccato phrasings took on a harshness that began to grate.

She treated him with a harshness that often crossed over into cruelty.

"You claimed us not to need it," Lucy said, a harshness in her voice he'd not heard before.

"We are hearing comments and a harshness and, I think, openly racist claims we haven't seen before".

His creations had a harshness to them as he bent the trees to near their breaking point.

Simons's Flemish accent stills sits heavy – slightly phlegmatic, guttural sometimes, there's a harshness to it that's entirely untainted by his success.

The resulting conflict is largely played for laughs, with nods to Woody Allen, but there is a rude harshness in Delpy's approach, a taste for close confrontation, which both sours and enlivens what might otherwise have drifted into an easygoing comedy of manners.

Apart from mechanical liabilities — including a lateral lisp that produces a slushy "s" sound — Giuliani was impaired by a native harshness that proved resistant to the remedies of his political advisers.

There was a desert harshness to the sound, in keeping with the Middle Eastern focus.

There is a comic harshness to the book's physical descriptions.

Despite a surface harshness, his films were compassionate in the tradition of his fellow Frenchman, Jean Renoir.