Word: harshness
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...Last week, in a highly secretive trial, a Guangzhou court meted out harsh punishments?including two death sentences?to those deemed to be the culprits in Sun's death. They included a nurse alleged to have ordered other inmates to beat Sun, and the inmates accused of complying. But the major accomplice in Sun's death got off free. The bulk of the blame for Sun's death ought to fall on a little-known system of administrative detention?that is, detention outside of the criminal justice system?whereby Chinese citizens can be locked up merely for being...
...roommates also often insert the letters “ier” into a word. This is particularly useful in curses, Justin notes—like “fierck,” for instance—because it softens statements that could otherwise sound harsh or hurtful...
Although such an action would normally garner harsh criticism, Barnes said that he saw the event unfold and recognized that the soldier had no other choice...
Perhaps such harsh treatment of others is a by-product of the harsh treatment to which many of us subject ourselves. Maybe a part of the meanness comes from the nature of academia, which advances by finding faults with the present body of knowledge. Or it could even be a symptom of having such a small proportion of students deeply adhere to some religious faith or other source of moral codes...
Soon after the decision was announced, McCarthy issued a harsh public statement against Pusey, telling the Boston Traveler in a letter that the new president’s political stance was “a combination of bigotry and intolerance behind a cloak of of phony hypocritical liberalism” and calling him a “rabid anti anti-Communist...