Sentence examples for harsh and rigid from inspiring English sources

Sonically harsh and rigid, they were considered largely unsuitable by serious musicians, and they trickled into thrift stores, garage sales and pawn shops.

Still, as the numbers fall, Albany's three most powerful leaders -- the governor, Mr. Bruno, and the Democratic Assembly speaker, Sheldon Silver -- say the basic sentencing grid of the laws remains fundamentally flawed, unduly harsh and rigid.

Why so long?" Gov. George E. Pataki and Democrats in the Assembly have long agreed that the 29-year-old laws are unduly harsh and rigid, imposing longer minimum mandatory sentences for some first-time, nonviolent drug offenses than for rape and manslaughter.

If these same people had been exposed from early youth to great masterpieces of literature and had learned through them to appreciate the tremendous diversity of human mores and beliefs held by other groups, with the same degree of sincerity that they themselves possess, they would be less likely to be as harsh, intolerant, and rigid as they are.

Yet even they find the harsh life of brutal training and rigid hierarchy hard to endure.

In trying to reestablish compulsory state service, he made it more rigid, harsh, and militaristic.

These are happening amid habitually tight censorship and harsher crackdowns on dissent, resulting in a society that is both dynamic and rigid, freewheeling and throttled.

I have flexible morality and rigid immaturity.

It was so traditional, archaic and rigid.

Judah: We're not strict and rigid.

Its management is unproductive and rigid.