"I think this is a very harsh message," an official at the Japanese Embassy said.

My superior was going to send a harsh message to our office on Terra.

New Found Glory is a band that people enjoy listening to not because we give off this harsh message.

Yet the harsh and inflexible message worried him.

"Radio is more insidious, so you can have a harsher message."

So the words of his harsh message could hardly be more jolting.

It can seem a harsh message under the best of circumstances.

It is a harsh message that erodes self-esteem and motivation.

That is a harsh message for Wall Street's deal makers, used to operating by their own code.

As her secret attacker, he sent several harsh messages with each death trap.