The priest was being unnecessarily harsh with the girl.

It gives us the discretion to deal with individual cases without being unnecessarily harsh.

Needless to say, he was usually disappointed, therefore unnecessarily harsh in his judgments.

Those critical of the system say many treatment programs are unnecessarily harsh, and any deviation from the rules is punished.

Later he called back to say that his response had been unnecessarily harsh.

Her voice was unnecessarily harsh, over-compensation for the misery and tension.

Many such programmes are unnecessarily harsh and increase isolation by confining the patient to bed.

They have asserted that the plan is unnecessarily harsh, and perhaps worse, futile.

A few think you were unnecessarily harsh, but surprisingly, there's more of that in the Christian community than among the Muslims we have left.

Her voice was, it seemed to Ramses, unnecessarily harsh.