Sentence examples for harsh past from inspiring English sources

To contemporary readers, such a passage may seem a relic of a harsh past.

Once Lila finds sanctuary, looking back at her harsh past no longer retains the same dread, the same power... How could it?

On Monday, Cambodia took a significant step toward addressing its harsh past with the first conviction of a major Khmer Rouge figure in connection with the deaths of 1.7 million people from 1975 to 1979.

Out of the darkness of this former courthouse, a forbidding, squat, square building that is a relic of the Lower East Side's harsh past of junkies and streetfighting men, comes the small, frail figure of Jonas Mekas to answer the door.

Kishimoto added a harsh past to give him a side of darkness.

Being released from his harsh past bestowed in Dobby a generosity that he then showed to others.

But the Tibet crisis has shown a leadership that has seemingly stepped back into the party's harsher past.

The Conservatives fell short because many voters doubted the depth of the party's conversion from its harsh Thatcherite past.

Physically just a few miles from the Black Mountains and lush Herefordshire, it remains rooted in its own harsh industrial past.

In the past, harsh economic times have been the motor for mass emigration.

We walked in harsh desert sunlight past pastel-colored Jugendstil buildings, and climbed to a century-old Lutheran church perched on a forbidding outcropping overlooking the bay.