harshness

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Harshness tempered with naïveté is central to its style and argument.

From New York Times • Apr. 11, 2024

Harshness in sentencing became a way to soothe the pain of grief-stricken families.

From Slate • Feb. 9, 2022

Harshness may cow criminals, but does not improve them: on the contrary, it only serves to irritate them or to convert them into hypocrites.

From Criminal Man According to the Classification of Cesare Lombroso by Lombroso, Gina

Harshness, tyranny, dissension, and even insult, seemed personified.

From The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay — Volume 2 by Burney, Fanny

And afterwards, 'Tis not enough no Harshness gives Offence, The Sound must seem an Eccho to the Sense.

From The Spectator, Volume 2. by Addison, Joseph