The phrase "an excessively harsh" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe something that is overly severe or strict, often in a critical context.
Example: "The teacher's feedback was an excessively harsh critique of the student's work."
Alternatives: "an overly severe" or "an unduly strict".
"The main thing is that they not be turned into martyrs by an excessively harsh verdict," he said.
Newsweek: "What's the difference between disingenuous and dishonest?" Obama, sticking with his euphemism to avert an excessively harsh charge: "You'll have to ask her".
While this was arguably an excessively harsh judgement, a trophy return of a single League Cup between 1995 and 2000 was hardly a resounding riposte.
The feared scenario makes her feel sad and disappointed (premotion); however, she is aware that she may be engaging in an excessively harsh interpretation and therefore that she needs to wait to find out whether the anticipated negative social consequences will occur (i.e., there is an awareness that she needs to wait for disconfirmatory evidence).
Criminal law reform – The ACLU seeks an end to excessively harsh sentences that it feels "stand in the way of a just and equal society".
The subcommittee's report ran into heavy criticism from immigrant rights defenders and reformers, who have long pressured ICE to abandon privatization, saying the trend exaggerates the worst flaws of an overgrown and excessively harsh civil detention system.
They recoil when a reviewer seems excessively harsh, and sometimes assign malign motives to the reviewer when it happens.
Although Ecclestone sat on the WMSC panel that decided to ban Briatore, the Briton admitted in Singapore last weekend that he thought Briatore's ban had been excessively harsh – a stance that subsequently drew criticism from Sir Martin Sorrell, who is a shareholder of F1's commercial rights holder CVC.
But even if the allegation were correct, the lawyers said, "a sanction of disbarment would be excessively harsh, impermissibly punitive and unprecedented in the circumstances of this case".
"A sanction of disbarment would be excessively harsh, impermissibly punitive and unprecedented in the circumstances of this case," wrote the lawyers, David E. Kendall and Nicole K. Seligman of Washington.
But the airlines moved quickly to protest the proposal as excessively harsh and menacing to a system of controlled overbooking that they say makes the reservation system flexible and helps bring down their fares.
