The phrase "harsh passage" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It typically refers to a difficult or unpleasant section of a written work or a challenging situation. Example: The novel's protagonists had to overcome many obstacles, but the most intense and emotionally charged was the harsh passage through war-torn territory.
But this was the rare harsh passage in what is otherwise a fatherly letter to the church.
But the signature stretch of the course is the long, harsh passage through the Southern Ocean beyond the latitude of 40 degrees south.
For this issue, Ben traveled to the North Sea coastal town of Rostock, Germany, to profile Murder Eyez, an Arabic hip-hop star from Syria's most contested city, Aleppo, who two years ago made the harsh passage across the Mediterranean to flee his country's civil war and restart his career in the West.
This chemically defined system allowed the passaging and maintenance of cellular phenotype of this clinically important cell type, in the absence of harsh passaging and the need for biological substrates.
The critical, even harsh passages must be understood in this light.
The act's harshest passage specified fines and imprisonment for anyone "who shall monopolize, or attempt to monopolize, or combine or conspire with any other person or persons, to monopolize any part of the trade or commerce among the several States, or with foreign nations".
Un Prophète tells the tale of an illiterate Arab convict who endures a harsh rite of passage when he is recruited by the Corsican mob.
In "Baby Boy," there is even a "Man Who Shot Liberty Valance" morality that accepts the killing of a young, murderous monster as a harsh rite of passage because it makes the community a better place to be by permanently removing one more snake.
Yet, as the two of us have learned from each other, each of the two faiths has a rich oral tradition (the Talmud, and later books in Judaism, and the Hadith in Islam) that put into context, or mitigate, these seemingly harsh and inflexible passages.
Some legislators still pursued the passage of harsh antihomosexual legislation that included draconian punishments for those convicted of "aggravated" homosexual acts as well as homosexual expression, association, and assembly, although the death penalty was dropped.
In a typical passage, the harsh taste of poison is artificially sweetened by a dose of solemn, ersatz thoughtfulness: Our argument is that Obama's experience with Islam predisposes him to Islam in a way that is reflective of his political associates, his political advisors, and his specific policies regarding the Middle East.
