Sentence examples for overtly harsh from inspiring English sources
The International Olympic Committee does not look kindly on overtly harsh attacks by bidders, and occasionally it sends letters of reprimand to those who break with protocol, former bidders said.
Depending on who was commenting, writers described his catalog as split between the invitingly accessible (or the overtly commercial) and the unbearably harsh (or the rigorously high-minded).
When that version was exhibited in 1939 at the Baltimore Museum of Art, it was met with harsh criticism for being overtly racist.
There was nothing overtly sexist happening, but the atmosphere felt harsh, with criticism, mean jokes, and posturing that made me uncomfortable.
The legitimized violence of law enforcement is far harsher and less idealistic — or, so to speak, less overtly liberal — than education and social work, but it's inseparable from them.
Although Vedder and Pearl Jam never overtly referenced Israel, Gaza, or even the Middle East, the Jerusalem Post branded his monologue a "harsh anti-Israel diatribe".
And while feelings about religious freedom laws are bound to be complicated, the harsh reaction to Indiana's law suggests that mainstream America no longer condones overtly discriminatory treatment towards the LGBT community.
Harsh words are reminding some of Nazi persecution of Jews and Roma and of Czech wartime collaboration with it.Although overtly neo-Nazi parties are illegal, even respectable Czech politicians flirt with anti-Roma sentiment.
"It's not like the physicians were being overtly negative or harsh," said the lead author, Dr. Kimberly A. Gudzune, an assistant professor of general internal medicine at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.
