Sentence examples for harshness in from inspiring English sources

To make clear: OK, we all know there is a pecking order here, and language is harsh, and the way they characterize each other is harsh, but the truth surmounts the harshness, in a way.

In certain cases, invasive plants may perform better than natives in harsh environments when the invaders themselves increase abiotic harshness in ways that favour conspecific recruitment.

"It's fine," he said, hating the harshness in his voice.

The photos capture its harshness in both beauty and lifestyle.

Having heard about that, I was almost disappointed at the absence of harshness in the portrayal.

"You claimed us not to need it," Lucy said, a harshness in her voice he'd not heard before.

In spite of the harshness, and in some ways the bluntness of Plato's critique of poetry, he not only put his finger on deep issues of ongoing interest, but also leavened his polemic in a number of intriguing and subtle ways most obviously, by writing philosophy in a way that can, with proper qualifications, itself be called poetic.

But in the mid-1970s he left pointed harshness behind in favor of full-throttle Neo-Romanticism, expressed at the time through a series of pieces based on Lewis Carroll's "Alice" stories.

And Simon Paisley Day's Malvolio catches all of the character's narcissistic self-love, while making you wince at the harshness that, in his supposed madness, sees him penned in a cage like some imprisoned stork.

Baldwin especially was blamed for its harshness, although in February, along with his advisor Peter of Blois, he was in Normandy with the king.

Her voice has a creaminess that allows for brilliance without harshness, as in the enchanting aria "V'adoro, pupille".