Sentence examples for harshness of a from inspiring English sources

Pelly, meanwhile, transposes the opera from the France of Louis XV to the Second Empire, giving it something of the harshness of a Émile Zola novel.

A murder is a murder: there is no precedent in our legal system to increase the harshness of a sentence based on the motive for the crime.

Despite a stated preference for "natural light", he employed a battery of lights, for choice "bounced" off a screen to mute the harshness of a direct spot.

"Anwar Ibrahim, who turns 70 next year, is surely not a hardened criminal that deserves the harshness of a prison sentence.

The reduction, which was most pronounced from January to April, appears to have partly reflected the harshness of a winter that was colder, snowier and longer than the past several years were and that discouraged insurgent attacks.

This may not have satisfied those seeking a socialist revolution, but it did mitigate the potential harshness of a social order in which status would have wholly given way to contract.

Addressing a banquet in the City of London, Britain's main financial district, late Thursday, the chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne, dwelled at length on the harshness of an environment that is, in his words, "as difficult perhaps as any our country or our continent has faced outside of war".

Despite the lack of such luxuries, Burkepile would still happily face the harshness of an extended stay at the submerged lab one more time.

The harshness of such a setup is moderated with liquid-filled bushings between suspension linkages and the one-piece unit body.

Given the basic harshness of boxing as a way of earning a living, no one could blame Owen or his father or his manager, Dai Gardiner, for going after the biggest prize available to them, but some of us always felt that the right to challenge Pintor in Los Angeles was a questionable privilege.

The ornateness, a defiant response to the harshness of life, is a moving assertion of beauty.