Harshness

Find a mean between harshness and indulgence.

Harshness should be avoided in those cases.

The harshness of Ukraine's laws is mitigated by the fact that one doesn't have to obey them.

I was shocked by the harshness of his tone.

The Arctic ecosystem is a source of inspiration for artists and writers who are fascinated by its beauty and harshness.

And yet these harshnesses are tenderness itself when compared with the universal harshness out of which they grow; the harshness of the position towards the temperament, of the means towards the aims, of to-day towards yesterday, of hereafter towards to-day.

She wakened in sharp panic, bewildered by the grotesquerie of some half-remembered dream in contrast with the harshness of inclement fact, drowsily realizing that since she had fallen asleep it had come on to rain smartly out of a shrouded sky.