Sentence examples for their harshness from inspiring English sources

The militias were notorious for their harshness, often imprisoning people they disapproved of.

The Draconian laws were most noteworthy for their harshness; they were said to be written in blood, rather than ink.

I'm not sure where my mother got the recipe, but the orange turnips sometimes known as Swedes were cooked with potatoes to soften some of their harshness.

But there was more to the mixture than that: the garlic and scallions looked raw but had lost their harshness and become easily digestible, and the base of the sauce was not oil but water.

One of the pleasures of Hardy's novels, which makes them so lovely in spite of their harshness, is his reconstruction of the folkways and landscapes of Dorset and surroundings, whose place-names he translated into Wessex equivalents: Dorchester becomes Casterbridge, and so on.

If one is not familiar with college football, the penalties that the N.C.A.A. and Penn State agreed on as punishment for the school's role in the Jerry Sandusky child-sex-abuse case will come as a surprise — not because of their harshness, but because of what was available for the N.C.A.A. to take away.

Even such a major liberal thinker as Hu Shi 胡適 (1891 1962) was willing to forgive the Legalists their notorious harshness and oppressiveness, hailing Han Fei and Li Si for their "brave spirit of opposing those who 'do not make the present into their teacher but learn from the past'" (Hu Shi 1930: 6.480 81).

The composers seem to have been attracted to clusters not for their potential harshness but as a way of skirting (or at least, obscuring) conventional tonality.

Employees often complain about the dreariness of their work or the harshness of their supervisors.

The Stark family, protagonists of this novel of bleak, frustrated lives in redneck British Columbia, are doomed to outsider status by their poverty and the harshness of their environment.

The students, asked about their professor's harshness, were indignant at the implied criticism of him.