Sentence examples for gentle rebuke from inspiring English sources

Mad Mel has a gentle rebuke for dissenters from this nuanced viewpoint.

Bush acknowledged that Brazil is not violating sanctions but offered a gentle rebuke.

The governor, who has rarely disagreed with Mr. Spitzer in public, gave him a gentle rebuke today.

Upon returning indoors & to our book, we received a gentle rebuke for our activity, delivered across the distance of nearly 400 years.

Mr Meles, beaming at being given such a gentle rebuke, said that if there had been mistakes they would be corrected.

Indeed, in commenting on his aims in the massive reference work, Twentieth Century Crime and Mystery Writers, he included a gentle rebuke to myself.

Author sympatizes with Mrs. White's gentle rebuke of Dr. Rickett for his scant use of scent as an aid to pinning dow the species with exactitude.

We see this, too, in "Monologue"; the narrator begins with gentle rebukes, with a "Sometimes I think you've forgotten me" and a "I'll tell you one thing you don't know".

That was one of the gentler rebukes from the not-black-enough camp.

As generous in praise as he was gentle in rebuke, as careful of his troops as he was careless of himself, eager to lead but unwilling to drive, seeing clearly and pursuing patiently the one great end through all the labyrinth of war — that is the picture of Caesar which this book reveals.

Behaviour considered improper was usually greeted mildly; preferred responses ranged from gentle ribbings, rebukes, and ridicule to shame.