Sentence examples for so harsh as from inspiring English sources

I wouldn't be quite so harsh as Melanie Bellamy (see below), but it clearly is a huge leap up from economics correspondent to Today presenter, and Davis won't do it in a single bound.

Dr. Dean's attacks on Mr. Kerry -- on Wednesday he accused him of supporting "politically corrupt fund-raising mechanisms" and described him as being "so much like a Republican" -- now sound so harsh as to risk backfiring.

For many years, Pullman supplemented his writing income by teaching literature at a middle school and at Westminster College, both in Oxford, and he retains some of the traits common in favorite teachers: a sartorial trademark (red socks) and a goodnatured gruffness, calibrated to let the charming students know that they won't be indulged but not so harsh as to scare the timid ones.

The ever-more-clueless Lord Grantham encourages the family both upstairs and downstairs to handle her with kid gloves — or, as Branson (no one can bring themselves to call him Tom, even though he is now their brother-in-law and not their driver) puts it: "He sees her as a little woman who shouldn't be troubled by anything so harsh as reality".

It was considerably less mild than De libero arbitrio, although not nearly so harsh as Luther's attack.

The violence in this play -- though some downright physical -- is so harsh as to keep you flinching as the characters go at each other, the things they say infinitely more damaging that the rattle and crash of the pots and bottles constantly being thrown upstairs, outside, and right in the kitchen which doubles as a poker parlor.

He was then asked if he blamed the Pakistani government, to which he replied that he was reluctant to use so harsh a term as that, but he did have "certain questions".

But Mr. Tucker, he said, marshaled "a seriousness of purpose, an historical insight and a scrupulousness of method" to regard Stalin as a malleable human being shaped by a childhood so harsh that he created, as a defense, an inflated self-image.

For example, the newspaper said American interrogators were so harsh with the spy suspect known as Juan Lazaro, formerly Mikhail Vasenkov, that they broke three of his ribs and his leg.

But Mr. Andoe's paintings are neither so existentially harsh as Munch's nor so sociologically provocative as Mr. Clark's photographs.

It's no coincidence, Mr. Perea says, that children reared as he was grow up so harsh.