Sentence examples for if harsh from inspiring English sources

He's your trusty, if harsh, adviser.

But the judgment, if harsh, is founded on evidence.

For a while, the plan seemed effective, if harsh.

New York offered a welcome if harsh dose of reality.

Hearing this, Gualtieri's courtiers all declare that he is "very wise," if harsh.

For that trust, Rwanda can thank the austere if harsh leadership of its president, Paul Kagame.

But they will not be able to keep such promises if harsher austerity is the price of a deal.

The petition even threatens that the work of songwriters be "removed from all streaming services" if harsher anti-piracy laws not be enacted.

"All the evidence at the time was that awarding decisions were if anything harsh".

Between those works, the Attacca Quartet gave a hard-driven (if occasionally harsh) performance of Mr. Adams's String Quartet (2008).

In the main it reflects the sense of fatalism that was probably needed if the harsh circumstances of Bedouin life in the desert were to be endured.