The phrase "something harsh" is correct and usable in written English
It can be used to describe an experience, comment, or action that is severe or unpleasant.
Example: "The criticism he received was something harsh that he wasn't prepared for."
Alternatives: "something severe" or "something tough."
There was something harsh and unforgiving about him.
It morphed from its jokiness, its playfulness, its metaphysical possibilities into something harsh, stern and unyielding.
There does seem to be something harsh at the heart of Schumer's comedy.
Despite being pretty and soft of flesh, she had something harsh about her, Jeb thought.
The main character, brought from Iraq with his squad to take part in a football halftime show, looks around him and thinks, "There's something harsh in his fellow Americans, avid, ecstatic, a burning that comes of the deepest need.
Having fought for these people, he looks at them anew, and finds them suddenly troubling: "There's something harsh in his fellow Americans, avid, ecstatic, a burning that comes of the deepest need.
It was past midnight, but I got a bucket, a scrubbing brush, and a box of something harsh-smelling called Soilax.
She added, "It demonstrates we are moving away from pliant sensuality" toward something harsher, "that we are not at a soft moment culturally".
So, Congress and Obama seem to be finally on the same page about something: harsher penalties that won't reach the hackers they were worried about and invasive "info-sharing" that doesn't come close to solving existing problems.
But in a book by journalists Felix Denk and Sven von Thülen, Detroit DJ Robert Hood describes how the "dark and murky" clubs of post-Wall Berlin, such as Tresor, transformed techno from "a fantasy-based electronic sound" to a more "reality-based" sound – more "brutal and assertive" as local DJs began intensifying the speed and abrasiveness of the sound into something harsher, more hardcore.
"For some of the ones that I feel are really blatantly harassing it seems to me that maybe there should be something harsher for it, but maybe not everybody agrees and maybe not even Microsoft agrees".
