harshness

• “And for the future, he declares, the harshness is again inevitable: though the writer admits that social progress (including of course female suffrage, which he does not mention) is largely due to peace.”

  Militarism versus Feminism: An Enquiry and a Policy Demonstrating that Militarism involves the Subjection of Women

• “I think the real cause of this online harshness is BECAUSE it is anonymous.”

  My opinion on the whole Blizzard Real ID issue

• “I've done the same with Ambassador John Bolton frequently -- but beyond just reading his remarks, I try to listen to Bolton who despite some of his harshness is occasionally being flippant, or humorous, or answering complex questions in a roundabout way -- and that is what I feel Levy did in this case.”

  The Huffington Post: Steve Clemons: Conspiracism American Style: The Daniel Levy Debate

• “Such harshness is a curious contrast with the leniency which advised the creditor to remit debts by way of alms.”

  The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night

• “Now, separated as we are by long stretches of land and of sea from various parts of the Empire, our interest is apt to weaken; and perhaps sometimes by harshness from the one to the other, or by what we may regard as rebuffs, or lack of sympathy, our affection is apt at times to wane.”

  Canada as a Field for the Solution of Imperial Problems

• “Every insult that we offer and every throb of pain resulting from unnecessary harshness, is adding to the feeling in China and Japan that is accumulating into hatred and contempt, and into a revenge that will eventually come unless we can do something to stop it, and that is the miracle to which I have already referred.”

  The True Inwardness of the Yellow Peril

• “The governor, though I liked him not, was a most personable man with much grace of manner, which had additional value from a certain harshness of feature which led one not to expect such suavity, and he was clad most richly in such a dazzle of gold broidery and fling of yellow laces, and glitter of buttons, as could not be surpassed.”

  The Heart's Highway: A Romance of Virginia in the Seventeenth Century

• “Now, again, the harshness is softened, and the focus shifts to Coleridge’s positive attributes.”

  william hazlitt | the man of letters « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground

• “The lips were full, yet possessed of the firmness, almost harshness, which is characteristic of thin lips.”

  Chapter 10

• “Because of this, the idea of harshness on the body to achieve higher states of consciousness came into existence.”

  Xanax of the caveman: neuropsychology of unity of existence and prayers; Part II

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