This exam is very severe.

The severity of this exam was beyond anything we could imagine.

I went to the shrine in Ise city.

I conducted an interview in a question-and-answer format.

He is totally illiterate and cannot read characters.

He was totally illiterate and couldn't even read the menu.

That proposal is completely unthinkable.

As a practical question, how are we going to fund this project?

He is observing stars at the observatory.

A new approach is needed to solve this set of problems.