That yielded a stinging rebuke from the usually soft-spoken Senator Bill Nelson, Democrat of Florida, who said Mr. Cruz, a Tea Party favorite, had gone "over the line" and "impugned the patriotism of the nominee".
The questions about soft money came only after she issued a strong rebuke of Mr. Arafat for not removing anti-Semitic references in Palestinian schoolbooks.
Her stage version is sharp witted, broad minded, steeped in art history, a woman with a soft spot for gay men, even for lefties, who would never be mean enough to – allegedly – rebuke the police for eating her Bombay mix, or – really – pay below the living wage at Windsor Castle.
Accusing the Israeli prime minister of being too soft on Hamas in Gaza, Lieberman broke up the Likud-Beiteinu partnership while continuing to publicly rebuke Netanyahu for refusing to take a strong position on Hamas and not stopping the projectiles coming from Gaza to south Israel.
This time he slammed his racket in disgust when Ferrer broke his serve to open the deciding set, while a soft volley to one of the world's top players prompted what is likely to be rebuked as an "audible obscenity".
While her words might be soft, they hide a sharp wit, often defusing a situation or disarming a suspect with a gently stinging rebuke.
In a powerful rebuke to his colleagues published in the Capitol newspaper Roll Call, Representative John Conyers of Michigan pointed out that while soft money "helps a bit" with get-out-the-vote drives, it is overwhelmingly deployed on expensive advertising for candidates who will reliably side with corporate interests.
His first love, Pattie Mae Wells ("She's my soft summer day"), deserts him; his decision to refuse service in Vietnam (a development never persuasively explained) means jail time and rebuke; the bottle becomes a self-destructive lure after he winds up in big, bad New York.
ReprintsThe rebuke was disingenuous.
He was expecting a rebuke.
