Sentence examples for feel reproach from inspiring English sources
She will leave the best things for me, and even this gesture will feel like reproach.
It said that none of his friends should feel self-reproach for his death and that he had taken the pills because he believed he would 'never know happiness again'.
Many modern readers, I suspect, feel gently reproached by Shakespeare's difficulty and vaguely guilty about how reliant they are on marginal glosses to see them through the most opaque passages.
Dickstein suggests that the dance movies of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, in particular, restored feelings of mobility and elegance, which poverty had robbed people of, and he thinks that gangster movies starring James Cagney and Edward G. Robinson delivered a comeuppance to myths of the American dream and of the self-made man that had come to feel like reproaches.
She says it so softly that Nachman hardly feels the reproach and almost imagines that she's encouraging him to entertain a romantic liaison.
A veteran New York design journalist told me that her daughter was a KonMari convert because she felt not reproach but rather an embracing, cheery respect.
You knew then that she had levitated to some altitude where she felt above reproach; that her investment in the bacon-wrapped burlesque of Paula, Inc., trumped a healthy conscience; and that self-examination was a condiment gone from her larder.
Punch's punctuality could feel like a reproach.
Yet, in the eyes of many people who are worrying about their jobs, this very stability and sensibleness – though badly needed – must also feel like a reproach.
As I read, I felt no reproaches for the people who disliked "A Little Life"; I saw why they did.
