Word: harshness
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...while self-consciousness motivated her toundergo the surgery, Laura's father was driven bydifferent concerns. He was worried that hernose--which she says he characterized as Jewishlooking--would subject her to harsh discriminationin the workplace. After considering the weight ofthe decision to alter her appearance, Lauraeventually agreed...
...realized that there is one drawback to being on the cutting edge of slang: not a lot of other people understand what you're talking about. I tried to apologize to Wayne. "Sorry, Wayne," I said. "That was a harsh realm...
...curious way we're more likely to forgive cool guys than squares. At least they never promised to toe the line. That's why we're so harsh with ministers who fall from grace, like Jim Bakker and Jimmy Swaggart. Mark Twain once said that a man, if he's any good, never gets over being a boy. We like men in whom we can see the vestiges of the boy. You can still make out the flirtatious teenage horn player in Bill Clinton. Newt Gingrich--who last week deemed Clinton an "illegal man"--despite his love of dinosaurs, probably...
...been more skeptical. In 1993, shortly after the New York Times published a glossary of grunge slang from Seattle, a journal called the Baffler claimed that a prankster had hoodwinked the Times with the notion that grungesters used "swingin' on the flippity-flop" to mean hanging around, and said "harsh realm" rather than "bummer." I was forced to admit publicly that if I hadn't happened to read the Baffler just before a trip to Seattle, which was sure to include some browsing at the mother church of Eddie Bauer, I might well have replied to a floor walker...
...beginning of her hospital stay, with a grin on her face and a clenched fist in the air, she told me that she would beat the disease. Despite harsh chemotherapy side effects, opportunistic infections and pure discomfort, my mother was always the fighter...