Jerry West

I've always been a very harsh judge of talent because if you don't play the game on both ends of the court, and if you don't play hard every night, I'm probably not going to be in love with you as a player. I'm going to respect you because you're good, but these players are unique.

American Businessman

Jimmy Barnes

The music industry is quite brutal and quite harsh and can be spirit shattering, but it's an honour to be a musician because your job is to make sure people enjoy themselves; to make people forget about their troubles.

Scottish Musician

Jane Campion

I think women don't grow up with the harsh world of criticism that men grow up with, we are more sensitively treated, and when you first experience the world of film-making you have to develop a very tough skin.

New Zealander Director

Joshua Waitzkin

One thing about the business and investing world that I connect to very intimately is that there is little room to deny the harsh realities of your mistakes. A bad call can lose you many millions.

American Celebrity

Kevin-Prince Boateng

I know what's it like when everyone has a go at you, when criticism is harsh, and your family is part of it. This drags you down, and you can't get on with your life.

German Athlete

J. Michael Straczynski

It's really important to me to keep growing as a writer, to look for new challenges and be harshly critical of my own work in order to learn and tell better stories.

American Producer

La'Porsha Renae

I'm proud of my curves, my daughter, as well as the harsh past that helped shape me into the strong woman I am today.

American Musician

Nathan Phillips

Life's harsh. You can't escape what you are and what you project.

Australian Actor

Isabel Gillies

Life is funny, at the same time being totally harsh.

American Actress

Mahesh Bhatt

Indian Director

Used when actions or their consequences are extreme and possibly more than necessary.

Intensity in Actions

Describes someone's manner that lacks kindness, often feels cold or unfeeling.

Not Gentle

Highlights the severity or strictness of a situation, rule, or law.

Describing Extreme Situations

Refers to sounds that are uncomfortable or painful to listen to.

Unpleasant to Ears

Used when a sound is not only loud, but also grating or jarring.

Describing Unwanted Noise

Often used to describe weather or conditions that are hard to endure.

Environment Challenges

Relates to sensory experiences that are strong and potentially overwhelming.

Extreme Sensations

Indicates a manner of speaking or writing that is overly judgmental or disapproving.

Critical Tone

Using 'harsh' may affect relationships due to its strong negative connotation.

Interpersonal Harmony

 we were pushing aside these ice chunks trying to get into waves. It was an incredible experience, one I'll never forget, because amidst those harsh conditions, I felt like I stumbled onto one of the last quiet places, somewhere that I found a clarity and a connection with the world I knew I would never find on a crowded beach.

Chris Burkard: The joy...

 through thirteen years of relentless, harsh, and often brutal training. The Spartans prized physical perfection above all else, and so the students spent a great deal of their time learning how to fight. To ensure resilience in battle, boys were encouraged to fight among themselves,

This is Sparta: Fierce...

 sorry the DMV will go away the DMV I know what you say right now there's no way this guy's going to stand up here and make a case for the DMV well I don't know about you but I do not want to live in a world where harsh fluorescent lights endless lines terrible forms to

A funny look at the...

 and acting as food for deep-sea animals. Largely thanks to that, abundant life forms exist in the darkness, adapting to a harsh reality where only the weird and wonderful can survive. Fish with cavernous mouths, spiky teeth jutting from their jaws,

The otherworldly...

 i'm catherine jeffs and i was down in antarctica for the original frozen planet series filming for my winter episode it was really important for us to be able to show how incredibly harsh the existence is from our perspective but actually what's

Filming Antarctica's...

 to help their young survive the harsh, freezing climate. So how is milk made? In the uniquely mammalian process of lactation, a special class of milk-secreting cells known as mammocytes line up in a single layer around pear-shaped alveoli.

The science of milk -...

 This created a nasal chamber that warmed and humidfied the cold, dry air they'd breathe in northern regions. Apart from adaptations that helped neanderthals survive a harsh, wintry habitat, the species also developed large brains.

Neanderthals 101 PIPE...

 the wild and that number is still falling the harshness of the winter here hinders their increase in numbers it takes one of these females longer to raise her young to independence than it does a leopard in africa

Nail-Biting Leopard...

 of death and taking its last breath. Life can be harsh, and these brutal scenarios take place daily in the wild. Thankfully, we aren't there to witness it all.

Fatal Encounter with...

 the musk oxen and their calves get a reprieve for now but if next winter is harsh and the vegetation too deep under snow grazers like musk oxen will suffer

Harsh