"harsh" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Sandino had a harsh upbringing and this would influence him to fight for the rights and advocate for people that were suffering in poverty.
- He talked of his harsh, unsympathetic upbringing in which his often drunken father physically abused his wife and children.
- Rockefeller's harsh Baptist upbringing made him the perfect instrument of the marketplace, but it also set up a tortured cycle inside him.
- While stuck in a mountain, during the storm, Jess reveals that she never intended to be rude to Becky, but was unnerved by her because of her parents' harsh upbringing.
- Mr. Kerik's rise from a harsh upbringing to Cabinet nominee has much to do with his powerful patron, Mr. Giuliani, whom he first served as a bodyguard.
- However, many consider the novel to be social commentary influenced by Herbert's harsh upbringing in immediate post-war London.
- I had a very harsh upbringing and think that it has left me with a strong legacy of anger.
- (Mr. Wolff, who wrote about his own harsh upbringing in "This Boy's Life," is a colleague.)
- Hamilton considered this provision of alternative opportunities for the underprivileged as his highest political calling, because his own harsh upbringing had allowed him no choices whatever and very little opportunity.
- For example, Christmas rebels against his harsh religious upbringing.
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