harshness

How To Use harshness In A Sentence

• The Danish verb 'pule' is slang for 'fuck' with strong connotations of harshness. Reddit.com: what's new online!
• The narrative deals with events of boyhood, then courting, matchmaking, and marriage, and afterwards the unremitting harshness of life.
• While both manage to strike a balance between being suitably other-worldly and maintaining their audience's sympathy, their respective complaints at the harshness of the colonial yolks of their masters seem unfounded.
• Without special attention to the subject, teachers are apt to acquire certain characteristic faults of voice, such as nasality, sharpness, harshness, and thinness of tone, of which they are quite unconscious. The American Union Speaker
• I FIND astounding the harshness being handed out to two people obviously very much in love. The Sun
• Osborne Hamley is bitterly estranged from his father, but when Osborne dies and the secret of his marriage is revealed, Squire Hamley, repenting his harshness, adopts Osborne's baby son.
• The tranquil uses of red and orange brickwork, with their auburn hedges, mollify the harshness of the sky above Pissarro's characteristically low horizon.
• Then in a tone of abrupt harshness, he added, "Open these trunks!".
• Poor Law administrators in practice operated with considerably varying degrees of harshness or generosity.
• Ulpian would no doubt have been uncomfortable with the harshness of the jump from legacy to trust.