Sentence examples for as a scolding from inspiring English sources
Depending on the context, Ms. Amer's appropriation of images from pornography can come across as a scolding or a celebration.
The play is brightened, though, by polished performances from Patrick Byas, as the emotionally elusive mugger, and Stephanie Pope Caffey, as a scolding bystander who metamorphoses from one stereotype to another.
Among wolves, one animal may "stand over" another: literally placing his body on top of and touching the other, as a scolding or a mild putting-in-one's-place.
The most recent ruling could be read as a scolding: "For over thirty years, the Agency has been confronted with evidence of the human health risks associated with the widespread subtherapeutic use of antibiotics in food-producing animals, and, despite a statutory mandate to ensure the safety of animal drugs, the Agency has done shockingly little to address these risks".
Sparring with voters at town-hall-style meetings, he can come off as a scolding crossing guard, and some of his efforts at humor — like the time he pretended that a waitress in a New Hampshire diner had pinched his bottom — have fallen notably flat.
Sydney is as much a scolding nanny as she is a collaborator.
He was, in his old age, as much a scold to his compatriots as he had ever been in his youth.
I was half an hour late, having got lost on the way here, and I felt as deserving of a scolding as a schoolboy.
He doesn't appear to be as much of a scold as Pope Benedict or John Paul II.
But Yankovic never comes off as a scold.
On Sunday, Nantz came off as a scold when he called the language "foul".
