Word: harshness
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...quite good for it especially because we had two little kids—a two and a half year old and a ten month old. And you know the Aran Islands aren’t really great for a little kid.THC: They’re always harsh. It’s like a rock in the middle of the ocean.CS: Yeah. I would love to go but it’d be rough on the whole family. In a couple years maybe. Get them to appreciate nothingness. THC: That’d be a good value to instill in children...
...Thaksin supporters, as justification for keeping parts of the nation under martial law. Certainly, linking the New Year's Eve violence to elements close to Thaksin could benefit the military junta. "[The government] may have felt that if they cracked down hard against their opponents they would appear too harsh, and the public would turn against them," says Panitan Wattanayagorn, a security expert at Chulalongkorn University. "But now they can because people are angry...
This was not a request for support. This was a proposal made within the harsh reality of the nation’s affordable housing landscape, where funds to create new affordable units are scarce. Equally scarce are the government dollars that could prolong the lifespan of an aging facility like Charlesview...
...Save a Life.” The video, which seems to be about the death of the lead singer’s friend whom he wishes he could have saved, would be genuinely emotional if not for its overwhelmingly flat aesthetics. The dull tones of the suburban setting, the harsh industrial lighting, and the astoundingly homely cast effectively make the video dark and disturbing rather than moving...
...That view is still widespread in the Arab world today, but it's very different from denying the Holocaust. The idea that tens of thousands of Eastern European Jews would choose to move to the impossibly harsh environment of an increasingly violent Palestine in the two years after World War II out of anything but a perception of dire necessity reminds me of another myth - albeit a Zionist one - with which I was fed growing up: that Israel's Jewish majority was ensured when hundreds of thousands of Palestinian Arabs had "miraculously" chosen to up and leave their homes...