Here, though, Cook was far more sprightly, cracking the odd joke, playfully chiding one reporter and generally giving the impression of a cricketer in a far more settled state.
Before climbing into her official car, a black Scottish government hybrid Lexus, she came close to chiding the jubilant crowd, drumming home a work ethic central to her success.
The chiding voice saying "use a condom" or, worse, "don't have sex with anyone other than your regular partner", is not what most people want to hear.
The encounter saw the Labour leader chiding Mr Brand for his insistence in 2013 that people should not vote.
As Ralph Nader, erstwhile presidential candidate and America's best-known business-basher, put it, the former compassionate conservative was now the chiding conservative.Only months ago, the idea that Mr Bush would publicly lambast America's corporate bosses was laughable.
Tactically, it could just be another piece of Washington politicking: some optimists claim that Congress will return after the mid-terms ready to back fast-track, providing Mr Obama allows some boilerplate language in the bill chiding China for allegedly manipulating its currency.
There was no doubt about the intended target of his comments, but they were phrased ambiguously enough to save Mr Thaksin's face.Outsiders might squirm at the idea of a constitutional monarch chiding an elected prime minister.
A high point of the reunion special featured four of the women chiding the fifth for keeping her home unfinished, and potentially dangerous to her young children, while spending thousands of dollars on designer clothes to fuel her social aspirations.Economic theory predicts we consume for our own benefit rather than to impress others, so why would otherwise rational people make such a choice?
Ms Grimes proclaims that she has never supported amnesty and "never will".She attacks him from the left, too, chiding him for opposing an increase in the minimum wage and joining the Democratic chorus that Republicans are chauvinists engaged in a "war on women".
During the election campaign he was ridiculed by Republicans for supposedly dismissing the importance of the individual ("You didn't build that," he said, allegedly chiding businessmen for believing they had created their companies by themselves).
