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Sentence Examples
The actions and ideas inspired by millenarian radicalism in the early Restoration drew reproach from many.
When I chose to go away to Bombay and entered Hindi films, he never ever said a word about it, let alone gave any sign of reproach.
We have seen characters like this in many mob stories, the sadomasochistic psychopath who flaunts rank against reproach.
And she set an example that, you know, she was supposed to be like Caesar's wife, beyond reproach.
He just stands over my bed silently, watching me with this terrible reproach in his eyes.
This was an unmitigated good, and one that is politically above the reproach of critical interrogation.
She wants her actions, inactions, and mistakes to be above any legal reproach.
Women's presence in civil and political society is a veritable moral reproach.
He has told his fellow coaches that they have to be blameless, beyond reproach in everything they do.
She had faith in a motley of astrologers and psychics, and it is perhaps a standing reproach that they failed to signal danger.
I shall try to give no occasion for that, perhaps just reproach of their ill-mannered boldness.
Given these circumstances, Lorenzo's rhyming reproach to his Yankee public, if ungracious, is surely understandable.
The guys who made these selections are above reproach, they're unimpeachable, these fellows.
The rest of us can readily vouch for him as a man of total and absolute integrity, a friend above reproach.
There are deep wells of poverty in both which are a living reproach to their political representatives.
Depression causes anhedonia, self reproach, suicidal ideation, and indecisiveness.
And though it strewed the stage with disaster and disgrace, nevertheless, not even their closest intimates could presume to reproach them.
If you are running a trading operation, you have to be like Caesar's wife, beyond reproach.
He tells him that he is not there to reproach him, and John denies having done anything wrong.
She agrees, goes to his home, and realizes that he will not question or reproach her.
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I could scarcely reproach you for having undergone it without success, for those who emerge from it triumphant are very few.
But don't you dare to reproach me with one drop of blood or one writer in jail.
My consultants currently read Harry as a modern-day knight, peerless and beyond reproach.
Keighley people recognise that the character and honesty of the man is beyond reproach.
You aren't worth it, and the friendly overtures of others come as a justified reproach.
The ruling historiographers of science cannot be freed from the reproach that they have read Galileo's writings too selectively.
Stung by his reproach, she counters by reminding him that her lack of ardor is understandable given their night of lovemaking.
Then he turned towards the young lady to reproach her, but saw that she had changed colour and her face was pale.
Our research is thorough and objective, and Mary Meeker's integrity is beyond reproach.
This wasn't just a case of a few New York highbrows flaunting their refinement in reproach of Hollywood vulgarity.
Feeling, intonation, and expressiveness were all on par with the quality of the work itself, which is to say, completely beyond reproach.
While Lakshmi is the goddess of riches, her elder sister is the deity of poverty, indigence, odium, reproach and ignominy.
A strict two-seater, with the engine mounted behind the seats, the MR2 is a joy to drive as its handling and roadholding are beyond reproach.
His speech was precise, his mind analytical and his code of conduct above reproach.
They were well aware that, in order to retain social respectability, their sexual behaviour had to be beyond reproach.
I was still half asleep but I was awake enough to hear the reproach in the nurse's voice and I interpreted it as her suggesting I had neglected Gerald.
If our glorious leaders want to be so righteous and take the stance they have then in my mind they should be above reproach themselves, whiter than white.
Nowadays many would prefer to forget it, lest its memory serve as a reproach against those who were witting or unwitting apologists for appeasement.
I therefore shall not follow the example of LeGallois, in trying to justify physiologists in the eyes of strangers to science who reproach them with cruelty.
The characters often look up to the gods for guidance, speak of them and reproach them for putting such a predicament onto mortals of flesh and blood.
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Some of his published works have met with strong criticism and reproach.
Aunt Alice frowned slightly at this reproach against her motherly duties, but the sorrow in her beautiful eyes could not be from this reproach alone, it was too deep.
These guys obviously have tons of ideas, and the arrangements and influences are all beyond reproach, but the record lacks the irresistible gravity of top-notch post-rock.
The sports players become the heroes and the country creates a pedestal where the athlete is beyond reproach and untouchable and this leads to all matter of problems.
Mutter's musicianship is beyond reproach, and she and the Trondheim Soloists go beyond and beneath and behind the notes to realize Vivaldi's creativity.
The master of the ship gives him a look of reproach, but says nothing.
The assumption that the Windsor matriarch, alone of her tribe, offered a symbol impervious to scepticism, reproach, censure, even simple boredom, has been dispelled.
A man of any rank may, without any reproach, abstain totally from tasting such liquors.
A generation later this reproach no longer had any common currency.
His determination to help matters is beyond doubt and above reproach.
She spoke very gently, full of compassion for the boy, velveting her reproach for me.
Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and a derision to them that are round about us.
My father made no reproach in his letters and only took notice of my science by inquiring into my occupations more particularly than before.
Many of his choicest years of life were employ'd in wrangling, and receiving and racquetting back reproach, accusation and sarcasm.
By all means possible they procure to have gold and silver among them in reproach.
Hence it came to pass that gradually and by corruption the name Gepidae was coined for them by way of reproach.
Are you justified to reproach him in public even if he hasn't crossed any incondonable limit, just committed a petty folly?
Not terribly conflicted by the part she must play, she seems beyond reproach, as effective and inscrutable in battle as she is as a gobernadora.
Londoners, and all within the sound of Bow Bell, are in reproach called Cockneys.
As he moves towards a conclusion, he sounds an extended note of reproach.
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The principal reproach that Hartmann makes against Schleiermacher's theory is religious alogism, the blindness and amorphousness of naked feeling.
The slightest hint of smugness would have had the nation leaning over our shoulders to blow out the birthday candles with a gale of reproach and disapproval.
Examples from Classical Literature
It is, at any rate, the immediate penetralium in which the mystery that is still the aspiration, if not the reproach, of physiological science lies concealed.
The interrogation, which seemed almost to cover a reproach, irritated the adjutant.
Tell me that you submit to my arguments, and do not reproach me for using such.
He glanced at her and their eyes met, the reproach in his own belying his words.
She looked up, so happily, that I began to reproach myself for my boorishness.
A bucca was the highest title of reproach that Puckinharn had in his vocabulary.
Is not simplicity, as we take it, cousin-german to folly and a quality of reproach?
I have no wish to comment upon that past with which you reproach me so cruelly.
He spoke with deference, but nevertheless there was a touch of reproach in his tone.
At all events he had exposed himself to reproach, by acting in diametrical opposition to the professions of his whole life.
This Hebe, Mr. Gordon greeted with a loving kiss, which the kissee resented in a very unequivocal strain of disgustful reproach.
Grief and amazement were blended in galliard's glance, and also, maybe, some reproach.
This he said to reproach Antonius, who had the house that had belonged to the father of sextus.
Of all things, Honorius could not bear that his father should reproach himself.
Why, a soliloquist in a crowd can hardly but be overheard, and without much reproach to the hearer.
I was mad enough and wicked enough to defend my conduct, and to reproach my father with the illiberality of his sentiments.
He became lax in his attendance at the synagogue, incurring the reproach of the family.
The inefficiency and ineptness of the Secretary of State have been a reproach to the country.
But this only subjected me to reproach, as having a prepossession in his favour which I would not own.
Antipathies, indeed, survived, and men even in the 10th century called each other Roman or Langobard as terms of reproach.
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I had already forgiven you, even before you ceased to reproach and taunt me.
Make them a reproach, and all that pass by them to loll out their tongues at them!
In any case, the mansuetude of the good emperor was in this respect shielded from all reproach.
Sieys wrote from Berlin to reproach Talleyrand with trafficking in his honour.
Mrs. Gammit felt abashed at her ignorance, but gratified, at the same time, by the reproach of metropolitanism.
You are bitter, Rosa, you reproach me with the only unalloyed pleasure which I have had in this world.
Whatever force we give to the reproach of want of elevation, etc., the only impossible theme is the unartistic.
So that his costume was beyond reproach, and he wore it with as much ease and unconstraint as he displayed in his old coat.
He decided, for his own peace of mind, that he had nothing with which to reproach himself.
Would that the conduct of England had been at this time free from reproach!
The vulgar, wherever he passed, were instigated to reproach and vilify him.
However, that I surrendered your keeping to a papistical infidel is my own blame, and I do not reproach you.
Those who did not hold the predestinarian theory were branded with reproach by the names of free-willers and Pelagians.
Do not let us recriminate, Lady Kirton, or on some scores I might reproach you.
Emancipation has ridded the country of the reproach, but not wholly of the calamity.
He could find no surcease only in the oft-repeated exclamation of reproach.
No one will reproach you with your mistakes or call you a confounded, clumsy meddler.
The senior partner was regarding the rebel with grave-eyed reproach.
Frou-Frou was a beast of medium size, not altogether free from reproach, from a breeder's point of view.
What a frightful reproach there was to him in that simple sentence!
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I had long been under reproach for my slackness in this matter.
If I ever could reproach her with her infamous condition, I would go anywhere to do so.
The elegist deplores this grievance as part of the reproach of his people.
Her eyes were full of half serious reproach, of laughter and enticement.
Dark it was, but she made no mistake, the familiar sag and screeching reproach of the front gate welcome under her hand.
Yet all this terrible reproach is only founded on an erratum!
There were words of reproach, encouragement, unbelief, execration.
She had done well to reproach him for his frivolity and want of purpose.
There was her husband's reproach looking at her from the external things around her which he had provided for her external existence.
Before that grieved organ-tone of reproach, Kitty's eyes filled.
But not a word of reproach came from the lips of vara Kavannah.
I am not the man to reproach anyone on the score of imprudence.
Then, at last, outspeaks Oedipus, and from reproach bursts into curses.
For there was something very like dumb reproach in wark's face.
It is hard for those in power to bear a well-founded reproach.
The fire of Dorothea's anger was not easily spent, and it flamed out in fitful returns of spurning reproach.
Surely the king would reproach me with nothing, but he would laugh at me, while squandering my millions, and with good reason.
Wyndham turned on him a look terrible in its dignified reproach.
Everyone else may sulk when a word of reproach is addressed to them, and may make the professors afraid to find fault with them.
There was Robert's reproach making itself felt by a quicker, fiercer, more overpowering love, which had awakened within her toward him.
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One might just as soon reproach any of them for coming unclothed into the world.
Ah, don't let your conscience reproach you later, but when you've killed me, write me, at least, as one that loved her fellow-worker.
Bayard looked up at him with dying eyes, full of pity and reproach.
The toast was piping hot and the fried eggs were beyond reproach.
Needless to add, I took care before leaving to lift, forever and adequately, this source of reproach.
A bold, a blamable journey, for which they reproach themselves at night.
Monsieur le vicomte, I will push my interrogatory no further, and reproach myself with having carried it so far.
I wanted to make Joe less ignorant and common, that he might be worthier of my society and less open to Estella's reproach.
I get awful homesick for them, all the same,' she murmured, as if she were answering some remembered reproach.
And it was his idea, vaguely formulated, that his corpse would be for those eyes a great and salt reproach.
Succeed or fail, I will have no remissness to reproach myself with.
He spoke calmly, however, without austerity, without reproach, and she revived a little.
The look was kind, yet with some reproach at this unfilial rejoicing.
The presence of the tall ghostly figure, moving slowly through the halls, he took as a reproach to himself.
He did not mind the entreaty, but the tone with its delicate note of pathos was like a reproach.
Mingo was a term of peculiar reproach, as were Mengwe and Maqua in a less degree.
The slight reproach to which the virtue of patriotism is commonly liable, the noble are most likely to incur.
As the time passed Sabine began to reproach herself for her cowardice.
The father looked at Mary with a reproach that was pathetic.
That was the uneasy corner of Lydgate's consciousness while he was reviewing the facts and resisting all reproach.
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Architecture also, with few exceptions, has long been our reproach.
It affected him as the ignorance of a companion, otherwise without reproach, touching some rudimentary branch of learning would have done.
To this reproach there is always one response which deludes women.
He walks straight to Higgins, and accosts him with vehement reproach.
She looked intensely grave, and I had never had such a sense of losing an advantage acquired as on my consciousness that she addressed me with a reproach.
I reproach myself, most bitterly, for having been so unfortunate as to cause the dissension that occurred, although I did so, I assure you, most unwittingly and heedlessly.
Where the Opposition that has not hurled back the branding reproach of Communism, against the more advanced opposition parties, as well as against its reactionary adversaries?
Your retrospections must be so totally void of reproach, that the contentment arising from them is not of philosophy, but, what is much better, of innocence.
Kutuzov, who was already weary of Bolkonski's activity which seemed to reproach his own idleness, very readily let him go and gave him a mission to Barclay de Tolly.
His is a household name in France and England-in fact, the latter nation has often uttered the reproach that Poe's own country has been slow to appreciate him.
