Sentence examples for on harshness from inspiring English sources

In contrast, Martel's novel insists on harshness.

Herlitzius's voice is not conventionally beautiful, its steeliness verging on harshness, but it delivers the musical goods.

Her deep contralto voice, sometimes verging on harshness, was a powerful instrument by which to convey the pathos of her simple songs of everyday life and emotion.

Section 2 Classroom Assessment Environment consists of two scales: learning-oriented assessment environment, focusing on classroom assessment practices that improve student learning and mastery of content materials (items 1 9); and performance-oriented assessment environment, focusing on harshness of assessment, grading, public evaluation and recognition practices (items 10 16).

And some of her rapid staccato phrasings took on a harshness that began to grate.

At a time when politicians try to outdo one another for harshness on immigration, he was pushing another approach — one that is more generous with visas and puts the 11 million or so illegal immigrants in the United States on a path to citizenship for the sake of national prosperity.

Even though the judges erred on the side of harshness, a penal sentence of four years amounts to one year for every 75,000 lives taken while Gröning was in Auschwitz.

Here, he may err on the side of harshness, for all Chechnya's dreadfulness as a state.

Fears that this judgment erred on the side of harshness led to a second debate, with Diodotus arguing for clemency, and Cleon, "the most violent man at Athens", opposing him.

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".

Under these conditions, the estimated range is between 8 and 48 m, depending on the harshness of the radio channel.