'harsh controversy' is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it when you want to describe a disagreement that is intense, heated, and has drawn in a lot of attention. For example: The harsh controversy between the two sides of the political debate has been at the center of the public discourse for the past few weeks.
Germans are rediscovering as fashionable things that became deeply uncool in the 1960s: bourgeois values, big families, even Latin lessons.Europeans are never going to engage in the harsh controversies of America's culture wars.
Many observers rightly concluded that continuous debate – including harsh, personalised controversies – were key to the success of coming-to-terms with nazism in particular.
Harsh reactions to the controversy may have played a role in the decision by Hooker, and consequently Haynes, to leave the colony for new settlements on the Connecticut River.
Éloge de l'amour (2001; In Praise of Love), a narrative film that examined the nature of love and a life in film, stirred controversy over its harsh criticism of Hollywood filmmaking.
His second film Le Corbeau drew controversy over its harsh look at provincial France and Clouzot was fired from Continental before its release.
One reform that was immediately a subject of controversy was a harsh prohibition law, which criminalized the service of a glass of grog with a six-month jail sentence.
Darwin would make good use of the homologies analyzed by Owen in his own theory, but the harsh treatment of Grant, and the controversy surrounding Vestiges, showed him the need to ensure that his own ideas were scientifically sound.
The move aroused controversy here, drawing criticism so harsh from the nationalist wing of the Brazilian military that the head of the air force resigned.
The acting I.R.S. commissioner, Daniel I. Werfel, formally ordered an end to all such "lookout" lists on Monday when he issued an assessment of the controversy that has led to harsh criticism of the nation's tax collector.
