Sentence examples for as a reproach from inspiring English sources

This isn't meant as a reproach to Hoffman.

Now Dr. King's death comes to us as a reproach.

It stands as a reproach to us all".

This book stands as a reproach to Ozu's awestruck champions.

"Which I mean as an observation, not as a reproach," he hurried to add.

"Dancing on the Ceiling" is performed as a reproach against the tenacity of memory itself.

Ultimately, the cinema's ability to immortalize the beauty of the everyday challenged even the most outlandish contrivances of artists such as Keaton, for whom its documentary power was as much a reproach as it was a boon.

But it was not as severe a reproach as the two-notch downgrade many analysts had expected, and investors took heart in that, bidding the Japanese yen up in value to 123.45 to the dollar and the government's benchmark 10-year bond down in yield to 1.355 percent.

In perhaps the most straight-faced and tawdry sentence from the book, the biographer finds that Russell "mocked Eliot with his rude heterosexuality, his virility as insistent a reproach to the limp poet as his neighing laugh".

It remains, as it was meant to, a reproach to all ham-fisted intellects and deskbound brooders.

The methods which he employed were unpleasing to a great number of good citizens, partly, no doubt, because they exemplified a passion for publicity which shocked conservative instincts; and that antagonism, which he probably regarded as a decoration rather than a reproach, has not disappeared.