Sentence examples for harsh rather than from inspiring English sources

But the choreography remained harsh rather than sensual.

"We also wanted the legal community to appreciate that if we deviated from that position, it would be rare and based on prison being truly 'unduly harsh' rather than being merely unduly inconvenient".

This seems like such a reasonable proposal, in fact, that I'm a bit surprised that anyone to Obama's right (that is, anyone who thinks the plan is too harsh, rather than too soft) is arguing against it.

Like the 2010 Ben Roethlisberger punishment for off-field misbehavior - a six-game suspension for vile, though not criminal conduct - the league erred on the side of being too harsh rather than too light.

Others were harsher: "Rather than providing a platform for presentation of a corporate wish list, Representative Issa should be subjecting corporate claims to the withering scrutiny he promises for the Obama administration," the consumer group Public Citizen said in a statement".

He taught me to confront harsh reality rather than to submit to it passively.

In theory, the dissenting analysts added, the Iraqis could have sterilized the tank with harsh chemicals rather than steam.

They decided to endure life under the Isis harsh rule rather than face destitution in a refugee camp, and until last weekend thought they had survived.

In the Gibson household, for example, 15-year-old twins cannot stop assaulting their mother, albeit with harsh language rather than their fists.

Any backlash they have faced, they say, generally has amounted to glares and harsh words rather than physical attacks that have been experienced by their Arab-American brothers and sisters.

Novel process windows as highly intensified processing approach tends to fully exploit the kinetics (reactivity) while maintaining selectivity at an acceptable level through use of harsh conditions, rather than to domesticate chemistry that is common practice in the process chemistry of the past.