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Example sentences for: harsh

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Late in Stanley Kubrick's final film, Eyes Wide Shut , there's a harsh bit of piano music by the Hungarian-born composer György Ligeti: one high note plinking over and over, first slow, then hard and fast and cruelly untranscendent.
The harsh social vision of Acrobats makes one wonder why Renoir's critical reputation has fared so badly in recent years, particularly at the hands of such leftist critics as T.J.
Initially, the regime was harsh, with fear and ignorance causing victims to be treated more like criminals than patients; however, conditions improved over the years until the colony was disbanded in 1957.
On the other hand, perhaps, South Africa may even be able to get a clearer view of its harsh realities, and its uphill tasks, without his overarching charisma.
And Orientalism , with its harsh critiques of European philology and American social science, contributed to an epistemological shift in the American academy: Traditional disciplines were no longer to be taken for granted as the vehicles of objective knowledge but themselves became the objects of ideological analysis.