But the spring optimists got a harsh rebuke this weekend.

He served in the War of the Sixth Coalition before a harsh rebuke from the emperor effectively ended his military career.

The three European countries have in the past resisted American pressure to deliver a harsher rebuke to Iran.

Her harshest rebuke would be simply "Your father would not have liked that."

This conception has therefore drawn harsh rebuke from some theologians.

She faced increasingly harsh rebukes and criticism as a pacifist.

The hive queen's thoughts abruptly changed from pleading to harsh rebuke.

Nonetheless, his treatment in the movies was a harsh rebuke for a man who had embraced Hollywood since his early adulthood.

The harshest rebukes come from what might be called the utopian left.

"God is not a golfer," one of the journals said in harsh rebuke.