Word: harshness
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...Holiday's. It is a comparison that Lincoln, who has recorded two albums of Holiday's songs, encourages -- up to a point. Says she: "I can't imagine what it would have been for me if she hadn't been there." Like Holiday's, Lincoln's voice can be harsh. But she invariably finds the emotional center of a lyric, singing every syllable clearly enough to satisfy the standards of a BBC announcer...
...witness plays of the dreaming, free-associating, punning mind that seem fundamental to modernism. Iron, in the form of objects that could be almost randomly brought together, favored wit and invention. Gonzalez, though he could make small sculptures with the finesse of jewelry, loved the contrast between the harsh and the delicate -- rough-cut slabs and hammered plates from which, unexpectedly, a tuft of metal hair would spring with an insouciance worthy of Miro...
...took the Crimson an inning-and-a-half to adjust to a harsh and cold 30-mile-per-hour wind that was blowing in from right field--a wind that made Soliders Field feel and look like San Francisco's Candlestick Park...
That's actually too harsh. I think there are some of you out there who did make lasting connections during those four incredible days. And that's very nice...
Apparently "popular psychologies" aren't responsive to harsh economic conditions unless elites point them out. Clinton, he says, "developed a strong message about 1980s favoritism to the top one percent and unfairness to the middle class" and so "quickly became the Democratic front-runner." According to Phillips, Bush, as the "scion of a prominent investment banking family," didn't have Reagan's populist credential to counter Clinton's message, and consequently failed to win reelection...