Today we experience a lack of civility and its underlying fear and hate all around us, from the Middle East to our own country, as well in our own often troubled families, even within ourselves as we harshly criticize our own personal failings.
A casino floor can seem like a throwback to a time decades ago when personal habits were judged less harshly and physical fitness was not considered such a virtue.
The poem was received harshly, which was possibly just thinly veiled personal attacks over Smart being freed from the asylum just weeks before.
Your school may overlook your personal use, but will always harshly punish those who give them to friends!
As this essay demonstrates, Achebe can be harshly critical of his fellow Nigerians; he assumes personal responsibility for "setting down beside the glories" of the Nigerian past "every inconvenient fact".
At the time, Simone herself was still wearing her hair in a harshly straightened fifties-style bob — sometimes the small personal freedoms are harder to speak up for than the larger political ones — and, clearly, it wasn't time yet for such specifically female injuries to take their place in the racial picture.
On the Supreme Court, of course, Justices complain openly about the course that their colleagues sometimes take; dissenting opinions can be harshly critical, and sometimes seem a little too personal for comfort.
But then it started asking a lot of personal questions, and it created dependency and harshly exploited its leverage; eventually, the book world realized that Amazon had its house keys and its bank-account number, and wondered if that had been the intention all along.
The one-party state retains government control of the media and cracks down harshly on political dissent, but its population is allowed to develop more personal and artistic freedom.
Hannity went through his argument again, harshly criticizing the Obamas and Bidens for taking what he called multiple personal vacations in the first three months of 2013.
