"The Portrait of a Man" sends back an echo to Edouard Manet's portraits of men in dark suits, but the French artist's influence is easily overlooked in this harsh essay in realism, only thinly disguised by sketchiness.
In a harsh essay on Short and Sweet NYC, one performer, Belle Noir, even called her out for arriving late to a shoot and claimed that "Knox is actually a very tyrannical and rude person towards the performers and industry workers on most of her sets".
His criticism of music he disliked could be harsh, and in a valedictory essay published at the time of his retirement as senior critic, he explained himself unrepentantly.
In mid-August, Mr. Mbeki devoted his weekly Internet essay to a harsh attack on Ms. Madlala-Routledge, calling her a "lone ranger" who willfully ignored orders.
Even when his essays included a harsh criticism, he politely coiled it, tucked it inside, part snake, part rose, and the reader would feel the bite sprung silkily only at the end — in a balletic allegiance to both generosity and candor.
The attack was even harsher in an op-ed essay in The Sun written by two former federal prosecutors who compared Mosby to Michael Nifong, the disgraced and disbarred North Carolina prosecutor who rushed to judgment in the case of three Duke University lacrosse players wrongfully charged with rape.
If you do this a lot you'll eventually get caught and there will probably be a very harsh punishment, if it's a small essay, just do it.
Certainly, in some of his essays, A.W. Schlegel offered a harsh critique of Friedrich Schiller, who had been regarded, together with Goethe, as the founding father of Weimar Classicism; but this rivalry seemed to involve more than just strictly philosophical issues.
Do you have anything harsh (or not harsh) to say about that essay or any of Bonnefoy's writing?
Often, in essays or in interviews, he delivered a harsh critique of Venezuela.
Some -- like the British critic Clive James, writing about Believer editor Heidi Julavits' rambling inaugural essay for that publication -- think it means "harsh reviewing".
