The harshness of his punishment was inhuman. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
I think the real cause of this online harshness is BECAUSE it is anonymous. From Wordnik.com. [My opinion on the whole Blizzard Real ID issue] Reference
Such harshness is a curious contrast with the leniency which advised the creditor to remit debts by way of alms. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference
D — — had none of that harshness, which is peculiar to many priests, nevertheless. From Wordnik.com. [Les Miserables] Reference
The Bishop of D. had none of that harshness, which is peculiar to many priests, nevertheless. From Wordnik.com. [Les Miserables, Volume I, Fantine] Reference
The Bishop of D---- had none of that harshness, which is peculiar to many priests, nevertheless. From Wordnik.com. [Les Misérables] Reference
Now, again, the harshness is softened, and the focus shifts to Coleridge’s positive attributes. From Wordnik.com. [william hazlitt | the man of letters « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground] Reference
The lips were full, yet possessed of the firmness, almost harshness, which is characteristic of thin lips. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 10] Reference
Because of this, the idea of harshness on the body to achieve higher states of consciousness came into existence. From Wordnik.com. [Xanax of the caveman: neuropsychology of unity of existence and prayers; Part II] Reference
Afghanistan would have become a strong Islamic state that would have applied Islamic law with a certain harshness. From Wordnik.com. [Councils of War] Reference
A memorial which he addressed to Napoleon sets forth in these manly terms the harshness and injustice of his treatment. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of Aaron Burr, Complete] Reference
His harshness is his fault, his one real fault; and his harshness also marks the point where his attitude towards his environment becomes unscientific. From Wordnik.com. [Books and Persons Being Comments on a Past Epoch 1908-1911] Reference
Kertész also sticks to it consistently, with a kind of harshness that makes it credible. From Wordnik.com. [Imre Kertész: A Medium for the Spirit of Auschwitz] Reference
Much of that metallic harshness which is found in the oil pictures of Homer is relieved in the water-colors and there is added to this their extreme virtuosity, and. From Wordnik.com. [Adventures in the Arts Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets] Reference
She still found it difficult to accept the waste of time and paper involved in Parliament, its "harshness", and the hierarchical structure inherited from the Westminster system. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
Too many of them have problems that are treated only with the kind of harshness that may be appropriate for some but won't save anybody from getting in trouble in the first place. From Wordnik.com. [President At Fundraising Lunch In San Francisco] Reference
The Minnesota gathering lacked that kind of harshness, but sustained booing greeted many of McCain's attempts to discourage the crowd's fear and anger. From Wordnik.com. [Pat Dollard | Young Americans] Reference
He looked at her with a harshness that chilled her. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
"There's a harshness in the earth here, isn't there?" he says. From Wordnik.com. [Puglia's Fiery Pizzica] Reference
"Their harshness will not wear well over time," Kennedy promised. From Wordnik.com. [How Kennedy Helped Save Clinton] Reference
Call it a long overdue date with the harshness of economic reality. From Wordnik.com. [Dan Dorfman: Wait Till 2012, Or maybe 2013] Reference
The harshness and the cruel lines around her mouth were dissolving. From Wordnik.com. [Dorothy's Mystical Adventures in Oz] Reference
He had been taken from place to place and treated with the greatest harshness. From Wordnik.com. [Army Boys on German Soil Our Doughboys Quelling the Mobs] Reference
The fatalistic harshness of the desert fits his temperament like handmade boots. From Wordnik.com. [Literary Lion In The Desert] Reference
Peters: Competition, flexibility and creativity, pressure to perform and social harshness. From Wordnik.com. [Seeing the Bright Side] Reference
In neither case could anything like disagreement or harshness be elicited, but the reverse. From Wordnik.com. [Fire Prevention and Fire Extinction] Reference
Yet when it hits a pothole, the body shudders with the harshness of an old British sports car. From Wordnik.com. [Chevrolet Uplander and owner (dis)satisfaction] Reference
Too much impact-harshness from the suspension, plus the body is not entirely well controlled. "". From Wordnik.com. [From the logbook: Nissan Maxima] Reference
The harshness of the punishments they sometimes mete out only seems incomprehensible to the west. From Wordnik.com. [Should British soldiers be dying for the rights of Afghan women? No.] Reference
The harshness of the life, though, is testimony to just how much harder life has become outside of uniform. From Wordnik.com. [The Fruits Of War] Reference
He practises his experience on youth without the harshness of reproof, and in his counsel his good company. From Wordnik.com. [Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters] Reference
But this thou must do, not scoffingly, not by way of exprobation, but tenderly without any harshness of words. From Wordnik.com. [Meditations] Reference
She reproached herself for her harshness toward him more than she had ever reproached herself for her weakness. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
But the formal announcement Tuesday and the harshness of the board's language underscored the depth of the problem at Metro. From Wordnik.com. [NTSB blames '09 Metro crash on track circuit failures, negligent safety attitude] Reference
We did not like to qualify the good report we had so far gained and maintained, by any exhibition of harshness towards the mob. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380, June, 1847] Reference
Its work is marked by crudeness and harshness, or at the best reticence -- splendor without softness or inoffensiveness without charm. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, December 1878] Reference
"Your daughter's virtue and pride are things to be despised, accursed," she says, "when bound in such an armour of harshness and cruelty.". From Wordnik.com. [When the Birds Begin to Sing] Reference
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