This may seem a harsh statement, and it is not one that I am making in a glib manner.

This is a cruel and harsh statement, to be sure.

With eyes gleaming shrewdly, the physician replied to the prosecutor's harsh statement.

He and Keenan sometimes issue harsh public statements about each other.

China had initially insisted on a harsh statement that "condemned" and later "deplored" the attack.

Verse 19 is one of the harshest statements by Jesus.

That's a pretty harsh statement for a guy who pitched here for 10 years.

Some Israeli officials have made harsh statements of their own.

The government has made many harsh and distorted statements against me, and most people think I'm a spy.

He stood a couple of feet away, the distance between them a harsh statement.