Sentence examples for on reproach from inspiring English sources

"It has not been a cause célèbre," Ms. Thompson said with a disappointment that bordered on reproach.

The theme is hinted at in the play's ironic title, and "earnestness" is repeatedly alluded to in the dialogue, Algernon says in Act II, "one has to be serious about something if one is to have any amusement in life" but goes on to reproach Jack for 'being serious about everything'".

He went on to reproach joint US-South Korean military drills as a provocative catalyst for deepening inter-Korean tensions.

He Is a Sick and Delusional Man," going on to reproach to the rest of us: "In response, our depraved and insane country has hailed him as something approaching a god".

That televised statement, along with subsequent televised comments in which Mr. Bush said that "the country is pleased that it's time to move on," carried hints of reproach for Mr. Clinton's conduct in his presidency.

Banks have offered little help; most will not lend to businesses short on cash, although after months of reproach, this is beginning to change.

They squat on the counter with an air of reproach -- and that, of course, is the point.

"The mistakes don't hang on the walls or stand on the shelves to reproach you for ever".

By Joe Klein Perhaps the most powerful quality in the Senator's arsenal of attractions is an unrelenting candor that verges on self-reproach.

But a more subtle, and perhaps the most powerful, quality in the Senator's arsenal of attractions is an unrelenting candor that verges on self-reproach — an analysand's candor, almost.

Stigma is a derivation of the Greek word for tattoo and is described as "a mark of disgrace or infamy, a stain or reproach, as on one's reputation".