The phrase "severe critique" is correct and usable in written English.
You could use it to describe a critique that is harshly critical of a particular work. For example, "He received a severe critique from the professor for his poorly written paper."
Damrosch is a sensitive reader of Tocqueville's shifts of mood, of the way in which an aristocrat's passing snobbery or complacent amusement might quickly correct itself into solemn admiration or severe critique.
During the twentieth century, this neutrality thesis met with severe critique, most prominently by Heidegger and Ellul, who have been mentioned in this context in Section 2.0, but also by philosophers from the Frankfurt School (Adorno, Horkheimer, Marcuse, Habermas).
Moreover, based on their specifications of how best to control for this spatial heterogeneity, DLR and ADR have put forward a severe critique of the findings from much of the existing U.S. evidence on the employment effects of minimum wages using state-level panel data.
Barrett's essay "Lo que son los yerbales" is a severe critique of the exploitation of workers on yerba mate tea plantations.
Palestinian American theorist Edward Said agreed in his book Culture and Imperialism that Conrad criticised imperialism, but added: "As a creature of his time, Conrad could not grant the natives their freedom, despite his severe critique of the imperialism that enslaved them".
Somebody mobilized a small army of congressional allies, letter-signing and op-ed-writing former high officials, and Sunday-morning-talk-show guests, all of whom offered severe critiques of Comey.
So I got a pretty severe postmodern critique.
Counters are lined with executives, laborers and fishermen, agreeable but exacting in their expectations, severe in their critiques.
Hip-hop can be severe — it is a proactive folk music, in the sense that it critiques systems of marginalization, mandates change, expresses grief — but, despite its ferocity, it is rarely as self-serious as other popular genres.
Motivated to reaffirm Jewish principles during severe persecution of the Jews in Spain, he wrote (1397 98) a treatise in "Refutation of the Principles of the Christians," a critique of 10 principles of Christianity.
