Example sentences for: harshest

How can you use “harshest” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • "Myanmar, arguably one of the world's harshest military regimes, is bound to crack down even harder on political dissidents after what happened," the paper argued, adding that Burmese dissidents could now lose their safe haven in Thailand since the sympathetic Thai government cannot be seen to support terrorist groups.

  • This is where rock turns into the feed-bag-for-morons, the opiate of the masses, that its harshest critics have always condemned.

  • In an interview Tuesday with Britain's Daily Telegraph , Kenneth Starr accused President Clinton of continuing to lie to the American people but reserved his harshest words for Monica Lewinsky.

  • "According to your will," he told Cavalieri, "I'm hot in the harshest winter, cold in the sun."

  • While the adaptation is respectful, it "mostly misses the humor, lyricism and emotional charge of Frank McCourt's magical and magnificent memoir" and unfortunately becomes "something resembling a conventional tale of a gifted young man's struggle to lift himself out of oppressive circumstances" (Todd McCarthy, Variety ). The harshest complaint: It's just "two hours and 20 minutes of beautifully photographed rain, mud, blood, lice, vomit, dead babies, and whining" (Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly ). The more upbeat take: The movie is "a thinner version of the novel, but you still get a drama that has you laughing and brokenhearted" (Desson Howe, the Washington Post ). (Click here to read an excerpt from the book.)


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