harshness

harsh | American Dictionary

harsh
adjective[ -er/-est only ]
us/hɑrʃ/

harshadjective[-er/-est only] (UNKIND)

unkind or cruel:
harsh criticism

harshadjective[-er/-est only] (SEVERE)

severe and unpleasant:
a harsh winter
harsh lighting

Examples of harsh

harsh
The arithmetic was sufficiently unfavourable, even in the short term, that harsh measures were required.
That frustration expressed itself in harsh censure of a metropolis where success apparently had to be won at the price of personal honour.
The trade unions' complaints and demands concentrated on the low wages, the harsh working and living conditions and-of crucial importance-the exploitative kangany-system.
Complex sensing and actuation systems may be prone to failure in the harsh environment.
Similarly, parents who are understandably worried about the influence of older peers in such neighborhoods may be overly restrictive and harsh in parenting their offspring.
A genetically informed study of the association between harsh punishment and offspring behavioral problems.
Harsh tax enforcement in situations with poor service delivery may thus contribute to further undermining the legitimacy of the government and increase tax resistance.
Valves of the throat 173 categories: two involving modal vocal register, one with breathy vocal register and five showing harsh vocal register.
Others promote theory as essential for survival in an ever-evolving, sometimes very harsh, technology-driven marketplace.
The lessons were harsh but inevitable; this was an education in organizational virtue.
Their adaptations have made them robust and resilient to natural disturbances and harsh climatic conditions.
The harsh antiparty politics and discourse of the 1973 military dictatorship had proximate historical antecedents.
Along with the harsh conditions in the southern and western circuits, the distance justices traveled in those circuits could itself be grueling.
I proposed one year because the climate was very harsh, parasites and malaria were endemic, and there was very little food.
There was a latent risk of 'architectural overstretch' - an architect's dream that would sink on such harsh facts as land ownership, financial and legal control.
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