"You took Lily and left the hospital so suddenly after Karen's death," the physician said, mild censure coloring his words.

If that vote failed, Mr. Clinton's hand in negotiating a mild censure would be immeasurably strengthened.

A second motion that offered a milder censure of the president passed 253 to 137, also with 18 abstentions.

For instance, says the paper, there is no evidence that the U.S. will propose even a mild censure of China for the upcoming meeting of the UN human rights commission.

Shepherd looked at him with puzzlement and mild censure, waved vaguely, and drove on.

In today's highly competitive armed forces, even the mildest censure would be a career-killer for someone of General Schwalier's rank.

Earlier in the day, Mr. Khasbulatov tried to push through a relatively mild censure of Mr. Yeltsin.

David looked at her in mild censure.

If he erred at all, it was by so painful a degree of self-distrust, that even the mildest censure would lead him to consider an indifferent action as a crime.

His cracked voice had a note of mild censure: "He didn't mean no harm, he's a cretin."