Driving Too Fast appears to be a song admonishing someone who drives too fast.
That's how Higgins and Eliza meet: as she admonishes someone for knocking her over and ruining her flowers, he copies down her Cockney speech.
It was all contemporary-looking but steeped in tradition, too — as when a sailor suddenly piped up, "Captain's on the bridge!" The captain, whose name was Brian Luther, was here to make his daily address, but first he admonished someone for a gross impertinence: "I don't want to hear anything about the Pittsburgh Steelers on my bridge".
It was all contemporary-looking but steeped in tradition, too as when a sailor suddenly piped up, "Captain's on the bridge!" The captain, whose name was Brian Luther, was here to make his daily address, but first he admonished someone for a gross impertinence: "I don't want to hear anything about the Pittsburgh Steelers on my bridge".
The irony of admonishing someone for getting too emotional in a conversation about whether or not someone should show more emotion, is priceless.
With a wide smile that indicated he had been admonished by someone in the Giants' organization, Parker said: "I'm glad to be going; I'm happy about it.
She hadn't realized how controversial the term "illegal immigrant" was until someone admonished her for using it in class.
In his book ReFocus: Living a Life that Reflects God's Heart, he describes a coffee meeting with a prominent "homosexual advocate," as one of the "most beautiful moments" in his twenty-plus years of ministry; yet, he's immediately probed back at the Focus office by someone admonishing him on how embarrassing it might be if word got out he was associating with a gay person.
It is eerily quiet on the streets as I chat on my mobile, and I worry that someone will admonish me – either for talking too loudly or for being a pretentious foodie waffler.
Nearby, someone else admonished a friend for feeling guilty when men paid for meals.
Kleinbard describes himself as a "Dutch uncle" which the dictionary tells me is someone who admonishes sternly and bluntly... tells us the hard truths whether we want to hear them or not.
