Word: harshly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...inexorable chord progressions and rhymes, and his best songs came out sounding ridiculously perfect, luminous in their wit and dazzling in their style. To come across right, they have to be done almost perfectly, too: unstylish style just comes out sounding like sweet bells jangled, out of tune and harsh--a bit like Paul Schommer's orchestra through much of the Loeb's Kiss Me Kate...
...innermost planet of the solar system, Mercury is almost always obscured by the sun's harsh glare. Under the best viewing conditions, it never appears as more than a hazy disk in earth-bound telescopes. Last week, as the Mariner 10 passed only 400 miles from the planet, some of the mystery about Mercury was finally dispelled. Radioing back the first close-up pictures of the Mercurian surface, the robot ship unveiled a bleak, cratered and totally forbidding world...
...more extreme than those on either the moon or Mars. At the height of the Mercurian day, they may reach 940° F., more than enough to melt lead. At night they plunge to - 350° F. No living things could be expected to endure such a harsh climate; yet scientists do not entirely dismiss the possibility of some day finding evidence that water-or even life-once existed on Mercury...
...country of few people, sprung from a harsh red earth that has nurtured pure beauty in twisted forms for eons. The Greek land is adamantine and you might expect it to be forbidding. But you are startled as you walk over stone and dry earth carpeted with pungent herb, faded green leaves and bleached purple flowers, because the land exhales the tolerance and beauty of what endures. Little rain falls, the earth is riddled with rocks that men have been heaving into meandering low walls for generations; the olive trees are strong and timeless but can't escape the battering...
...indictment spares no harsh words in describing the cover-up conspiracy involving the seven indicted Nixon associates "and others known and unknown." The aim of the conspiracy, the indictment claims, was to conceal the identity of the persons responsible for the Watergate wiretapping, as well as "other illegal and improper activities." Toward that end, the seven tried to prevent officials of the CIA, FBI and Department of Justice from transacting "their official business honestly and impartially, free from corruption, fraud, improper and undue influence, dishonesty, unlawful impairment and obstruction...