Sentence examples for chasten from inspiring English sources

I mention all this to shame those that treated us that way, to chasten those of us who might behave the same way to others and to warn our democratic brethren in Northern Africa that even when you do your best, there will be those in Europe who don't get it.

But George Bush never picked up where Mr Clinton left off.More immediately, almost everyone in the region is suffering stings of self-doubt and a criself-doubt andnce can crisisn peofle into thinking the previously unthinkable.

Such metrics chasten even furious politicians.

It can no longer be wielded to chasten people who enjoy the elaborately skilled, archaically styled, formulaic splendors of the old academy, with its devout ancestor worship and deluxe eroticism.

Of course, Euripides meant to chasten the women and put an end to their madness, but Akalaitis tidies everything up too neatly, in a way that seems not to reflect her usual impulses as a director.

The book that Trilling would have had in mind when he put the essays in "The Liberal Imagination" together was Arnold's "Culture and Anarchy" (1867), also an attempt to chasten the liberalism of its day, and Trilling used "literature" in the same way that Arnold used "culture": as a generic term that actually refers to an extremely select canon.

Related: Alastair Cook hits out at ECB for sacking him as England's one-day captain Now, with the intention to shore up English cricket following a chastening World Cup campaign – and gain revenge for a 1-0 defeat suffered on their last trip to the Caribbean in 2009 – the selectors have once more turned to the experienced right-hander, with the first Test starting in Antigua on 13 April.

This week the still chastened sport has returned to Imola.

He was "much chastened" by what he had done, and had made "genuine efforts to stop drinking and taking drugs".

The peloton, who had swallowed all but Kadri on the way up Holme Moss, were chastened by the climb and now sit a minute back.

There we spent the last night of our honeymoon, feeling chastened and anxious, before rising at dawn to catch the bus to the airport.