The phrase "a somewhat harsh" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe something that is moderately severe or unkind in tone or manner.
Example: "The teacher's feedback was a somewhat harsh critique of the student's project."
Alternatives: "a rather severe" or "a slightly tough".
While offering a somewhat harsh portrayal of an Iranian family's shattered life, it is not a political film.
Typically these have been treated with a somewhat harsh, perhaps risky, traditional surgical procedure, but Bath's innovative device employs a faster, more accurate, and minimally invasive technique.
He said that he felt rusty and that his game "wasn't there 100 percent," but that seemed like a somewhat harsh self-assessment.
Terry not missed, but Cahill not the answer The big decision by Jose Mourinho was to drop his captain John Terry, a somewhat harsh decision given the struggles of the players supposed to be offering him protection.
It was a somewhat harsh scoreline on Gary Johnson's Championship side, who were looking to reach the fifth round for the first time since 1949.
For quite some time now, I've been a somewhat harsh critic of A Song Of Ice And Fire author George R.R. Martin, whose books serve as source material for HBO's Game Of Thrones.
Dr. Feynman took a somewhat harsher view of NASA procedures than did the full commission's report.
The new Camry handles almost as well as the Accord, whose owners have accepted a somewhat harsher ride in return for surer footing on the road.
Reviews of the original film suggest a somewhat harsher environmental message (for example, a sequence showing several extinct species has, um, disappeared), but the poor bluefin tuna have survived the Disneynature editors if not the nets of bottom-trawling fishing boats.
The story picks up in a somewhat harsher and more repressive America.
Trevor Noah came under a bright and somewhat harsh spotlight when he took over Jon Stewart's hosting chair at Comedy Central's "The Daily Show". The South African comedian was relatively unknown in America, and he received mixed responses in his first weeks.
