Sentence examples for deliberately harsh from inspiring English sources

Conditions in the workhouses were deliberately harsh and degrading in order to discourage the poor from relying on parish relief.

Perhaps, in Australia, it's even manipulatively so — a deliberately harsh depiction of a societal divide that is actually more complex and nuanced.

Young has extensively briefed Guardian Australia about a system he says is deliberately harsh, breaks people's health, costs a fortune, compromises the ethics of doctors and is intended to place asylum seekers under "strong coercive pressure" to abandon plans to live in Australia.

This is one of the early, deliberately harsher, cruder, more dada photographs, in which Man Ray allows us to see Duchamp's all too masculine features, the long chin, the big nose, the hawkish profile.

So the "DIY nostalgia" of an item such as an oil can is coupled with fabric softener then displayed in a deliberately "clinical, harsh setting – like a hospital product".

But by deliberately applying a harsh interpretation of the new rules, the council claims "it can be argued that none of the Gypsy and Traveller households living on the public site in Newham meet the new planning definition of a Gypsy or Traveller, as they do not travel for work purposes or have not ceased to travel temporarily".

White House aides were divided this evening on the question of why Mr. Bush had deliberately directed his harshest remarks toward Israel today.

Federal courts have already found the state's harsh new requirement was deliberately racially discriminatory.

For decades, health experts, tobacco control advocates and others have argued that the tobacco industry deliberately adds menthol to mask the harsh taste of cigarettes.

Yet Turner defends and even romanticizes his harsh father, saying that he deliberately instilled insecurity: "He thought that people who were insecure worked harder, and I think that's probably true.

SYDNEY, Australia — Asylum seekers and refugees being held on Nauru under Australia's harsh immigration laws are being deliberately subjected to suffering to deter others from trying to reach Australia, human rights researchers said after visiting the tiny island nation.