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The part of the sentence "that seems harsh" is correct and usable in written English.
You could use this phrase to emphasize a seemingly negative statement or to express disagreement with a statement that someone has made. For example: My boss said I would be fired if I took a day off- that seems harsh.
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And that seems harsh.
That seems harsh — a more severe penalty, perhaps, than censure.
"Jenson has been a bit distracted this season, but that seems harsh".
(Humanitarian internationalism, in its interventionist form, has come in for a lot of criticism, but still — that seems harsh).
Detractors will say that most of those passes will have been short, sidefooted and sideways but that seems harsh.
If that seems harsh on a day when the energy secretary has announced a phase-out of coal, the most polluting of fossil fuels, then let me explain.
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— that seem harsh and don't do enough to fix root causes.
"You can either manufacture in comfortable, worker-friendly factories, or you can reinvent the product every year, and make it better and faster and cheaper, which requires factories that seem harsh by American standards," said a current Apple executive.
That seemed harsh at the time, but in retrospect, it was probably the most humane option.
To me, that seems ineffably harsh.
In an environment that seems so harsh, organisms have to retain their beneficial genetic resources to survive the external stresses of the environment.
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