Word: harshness
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...must return to earth as soon as possible if a leak can not be isolated. It is too early to say if that will be the case on this mission. "As NASA is often forced to admit, the Shuttle is an incredibly complicated machine forced to operate in a harsh environment," says TIME's Michael Lemonick. "If NASA put the Shuttle through all the maintenance they could, it could take a year to check a shuttle before each flight. Its really inevitable that things go wrong...
During the struggle for American independence, Thomas Paine wrote: "These are the times that try men's souls." He knew that the "summer soldiers" and the "sunshine patriots" would not withstand the harsh demands of the Revolutionary War. That quest demanded a commitment to liberty so strong and a belief in freedom so persistent that brothers would take up arms not only against the mother country, but against their Tory neighbors as well...
Ultimately, the film delivers a certain honesty and sensitivity that one cannot help but admire--especially by the harsh reality of the final scene, where the present in Bosnia comes painfully to the fore. For the movie admits, implicitly, a self-doubt, a possibility of failure, but one that encourages further introspection: such is the nature of serious search, a journey in the modern world...
Though scandal and imprisonment for "acts of gross indecency with other male persons" had not yet ruined him and his career, Wilde was already familiar with the cruel custom of ostracism when he wrote this play. The plot alone is a harsh indictment of sanctimonious contemporary values. His character Mrs. Erlynne (Marina Re) is one such outcast. Every high-born man in the city calls on the reputed courtesan, but the courtesy of an invitation to balls and parties is never returned, the honor of which Erlynne desperately wants to regain...
...career. His notoriously aggressive management style has left subordinates humiliated and emotionally bruised. He describes it as "bashing idea against idea to get stuff out of yourself and other people" and admits that to those unused to the process, his methods can seem "nasty...No, that's overly harsh. Or not harsh enough...