Yet both men saw their Lithuanian and Polish identities as complementary, not clashing.For Russians, Vilna had harsher echoes.
... for TOXIC ASSET, plus others including NEET, TARP, GREEN-COLLAR and DEFRIEND - for which the "official" Facebook term is "unfriend", but I suspect most people feel more comfortable with "de-"'s Latin sense of "away" than they do with "un-"'s harsher echoes of a Greek "anti", especially when they're not saying "this friend is now my enemy", merely "I have had my fill of her status updates".
"It sounded harsh," she echoed.
MacDougall's harsher judgment echoes, if less extravagantly, the revulsion against tartan kitsch, so memorably trounced by Murray and Barbara Grigor, which became fashionable in the Seventies.
Those harsh assessments, echoed by other councilmembers and council staff in somewhat nicer terms, come as no surprise to Wells, who says his colleagues bad-mouth each other all the time, but that he's proud of his legislative record.
There could be a more sinister purpose to this relentless bad news as well, particularly as it echoes equally harsh coverage of the United States and Ukraine.
One of China's most acclaimed authors, who is now a British citizen, has warned that its "increasingly harsh" political climate has echoes of the Cultural Revolution after authorities barred him from entering the mainland.
Ouch! Gibson's rant, though steeped in some truths about the country's growing obesity epidemic, echoes the harsh words of New York Times columnist Alice Randall last year.
His statement, harsh as it sounds, echoes what many are saying about Lil Tay's mom and brother, the latter of whom is reportedly managing her videos.
