Sentence examples for brutally harsh from inspiring English sources

Conditions in the Arctic remain brutally harsh, but the warming weather is creating new opportunities.

Get the Federer love....Not sure I get the brutally harsh treatment for Djokovic.

The news media are brutally harsh in their assessments of athletes these days.

Some of the brutally harsh tactics employed by security forces who rushed in to clear Tahrir Square beginning on Saturday were captured on video.

Among minorities, the Bahai — seven of whom were arrested recently on charges of spying for Israel — have suffered brutally harsh treatment.

"It was such a surreal sight – so serene and quiet, but a stark vision of how brutally harsh life can be," he wrote.

The work was brutally hard, and conditions harsh: 15,000 sugar slaves – one in four transported – are estimated to have died in Australia, most buried in unmarked graves.

They are both Glaswegians, both Scots brought up in the harsh, often brutally honest code of miners and shipyard workers there.

Three other altarpieces are associated with Caravaggio's time in the city: a harrowingly direct Flagellation of Christ, a harsh and brutally simplified Crucifixion of St. Andrew, and The Madonna of the Rosary, a picture so sweet in mood and so awkwardly theatrical that he probably painted it earlier in his career, around 1603 04, and took it to Naples with him from Rome.

The lives that the dwindling numbers of modern nuns lead are also a far cry from that described in Karen Armstrong's account of convent life in the 1960s when prostrating yourself on the floor for some minor transgression was the only break in a harsh, almost brutally contemplative routine.

Hurricane Sandy caused many layers of destruction across New York, some too brutally seen under the harsh spotlight of loss, others more hidden, their own kinds of sadnesses becoming more visible as the weeks went on.