Sentence examples for the harsh edge from inspiring English sources

But welfare reform has not addressed the poverty rate of jobseeker's allowance, nor softened the harsh edge to the system that Labour inherited.

Indeed, since Reagan, both political parties have cooperated to increase those programs and add others, and even our newest president felt obliged to soften the harsh edge of his label as a "conservative" by laying over it a veil of "compassion".

"The protest with humour has the advantage of both diffusing the harsh edge and also providing a vehicle... to make a protest, without being absolutely confrontational".

"The protest with humor has the advantage of both diffusing the harsh edge and also providing a vehicle... to make a protest, without being absolutely confrontational".

All the harsh edges of travel are softened by it.

The portrayal -- soft camera angles, smiling almost shyly -- seems intended to sand down the harsh edges.

The harsh edges of capitalism were once rounded in Europe under socialism's rose banner.

This gentle aging seemed to bring out its nuances while rounding out the harsh edges, yet it remained fresh and intense, a pure expression of sugar-cane subtlety.

Some of his stuff may verge on the laddish and un-PC, but there's something fundamentally nerdy and awkward about Darby that means the harsh edges never quite hit home.

What could be better than to channel the nationalist impulses into an art museum that would dazzle the world and blunt the harsh edges of ETA .. Gehry's museum is voluptuous.

Ironically, the summit finally agreed to adopt more room for manoeuvre in the application of the eurozone rule book, although this will do little more than soften the harsh edges of the austerity medicine.