The phrase "harsh suffering" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It is typically used to describe intense or severe physical or emotional pain. Example: The refugees had endured years of harsh suffering, fleeing their war-torn country and facing hunger and persecution in their journey to a safer land.
In addition, there is profound sympathy among Arabs for the harsh suffering that Iraq's people endure under UN sanctions.
The harsh suffering of the African-Americans falsely accused of rape in Alabama in the 1930s does not, after all, seem a surefire subject for a musical entertainment.
"He was witness to the tragic age of big ideologies, totalitarian regimes, and from their passing John Paul II embraced the harsh suffering, marked by tension and contradictions, of the transition of the modern age toward a new phase of history, showing constant concern that the human person be its protagonist," Benedict said at the Mass.
The reality is that their lives are harsh, their suffering is considerable and, unless they die beforehand, their last terrifying moments are in a slaughterhouse.
Told in flashbacks, the parallel story of their forgotten war begins in a trench in 1942, develops in harrowingly beautiful scenes of harsh wartime suffering and ends in 1945 with mass executions in Oslo.
The new coalition government's programme, seen by Reuters on Saturday, reflected public pressure to ease the terms of a 130 billion euro ($163 billion) bailout saving Greece from bankruptcy but only at the cost of harsh economic suffering.
In Europe, austerity has driven the economies back into recession, with the countries enforcing the harshest cuts suffering the most.
While most industries are suffering harsh retrenchments, Hollywood is churning out a product that people still line up to buy.
"But no more harsh than the suffering of an innocent Jesus who died for the sake of a sinful world, and no more harsh than the continuing suffering of so many of those for whom he died".
Here we treat people as human beings.' In Norway the punishment for committing a crime is being denied your freedom, not suffering harsh and inhumane conditions once imprisoned.
The island gradually declined as the result of pestilence, emigration, and harsh Turkish administration, suffering severely during the War of Greek Independence (1821 29).
