Sentence examples for if not harsh from inspiring English sources
As it turned out, Klinsmann gave Donovan a pointed, if not harsh, reminder of that reality Friday when he pulled Donovan from the game at halftime after a lackluster showing in the first 45 minutes.
(And in matters of visceral response, the Female Gaze is every bit as harsh as — if not harsher than — the Male Gaze).
The suppression of critical voices is now as harsh, if not harsher, than it was during the fascist-dominated single party state that crushed Ali and so many others.
Media and law enforcement should be reacting to online discrimination with the same vehement opposition afforded to public transport bigots with equally, if not harsher penalties.
If that's not harsh enough, Huntington's victims are faced with a fifty-percent chance of passing the disease to their children.
Now, on the northern side of the Alaska Peninsula and the Aleutian Islands is the Bering Sea, reputedly one of the harshest and roughest, if not the harshest and roughest, on Earth, a state of grace that can overflow onto the Pacific side, right into the passage of AMHS - which explains why Yours Truly is struggling aboard in Homer at 10 P.M. in early June with two tons of Dramamine in hand.
Will it be harsh, not harsh enough?
His harshest talk was not harsh at all.
Besides, the system of dedovshchina has a built-in mechanism to make sure that it perpetuates itself: If old-timers aren't harsh enough on new conscripts, they themselves will be "demoted" back to the level of dukh.
The penalty struck some as unduly harsh, if not cruel.
