harsh
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Like Euripides, Ms. Hall finds Medea “uncompromising, harsh, skeptical, pungent, and yet often darkly humorous.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 25, 2026
Asked why he chose to be subjected to such harsh criticism for four years, Hillman said, “My father was on me from the time of T-ball. He said constructive criticism was good.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 18, 2026
In a Thursday note, Thill called the market’s reaction “too harsh and not reflective of fundamentals.”
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 17, 2026
He softened the usually harsh light by using a camera converted to infrared.
From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026
She endured harsh nineteenth-century medical treatments like bloodletting and blistering.
From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock
When voters began asking less for harsher courts, however, the election year effect declined.
From Slate ● Oct. 26, 2026
His greatest sadness was for Lacey, who should have had his name in lights but instead was part of a team scuttling off the pitch to the sound of boos and harsher criticism.
From BBC ● Sep. 16, 2026
At the same time, they have become progressively vitriolic toward anyone who notes that the era’s realities were much harsher than what was shown on Nick at Nite sitcoms.
From Salon ● Aug. 26, 2026
Others in the market offered a harsher assessment of Warsh’s performance.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 29, 2026
His eyes don’t grow any harsher, but they don’t quite soften either.
From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer
Jordanian King Abdullah II described the shooting as a terrorist attack and promised the harshest retaliation.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026
“Some of the harshest treatment of these girls was from other women, and that is something which I found very hard to reconcile,” O’Brien said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026
They formed an essential part of the survival strategies that enabled people to live in some of the harshest environments on Earth.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 10, 2026
Excommunication is one of the harshest punishments that can be given by the Church, effectively expelling the offender from the religion and excluding them from Catholic life.
From BBC ● Jul. 2, 2026
I came to understand that the way for an old donkey to survive a trek in the world’s harshest desert is for his master to treat him like his own grandmother.
From "The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams" by Daniel Nayeri
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