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I feel reproach.
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.
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.
A tweet by IndigenousX founder Luke Pearson captures the frustrations that blackfullas, and our allies who advocate for the advancement of Aboriginal affairs, feel when reproached with this scintillating logic year after year for daring to speak out about the insult of the rabid flag-waving on 26 January.
As I read, I felt no reproaches for the people who disliked "A Little Life"; I saw why they did.
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.
The band is so innocuous as to feel beyond reproach.
She will leave the best things for me, and even this gesture will feel like reproach.
She says it so softly that Nachman hardly feels the reproach and almost imagines that she's encouraging him to entertain a romantic liaison.
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'.
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.
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