Sentence examples for public scolding from inspiring English sources
A few days later, Obama looked down at six of the nine justices, seated in the House chamber for the State of the Union address, and gave them an extraordinary public scolding.
IT WAS a scathing, and very public, scolding that the local authorities in eastern China's Jiangsu province earned for themselves when earlier this year they were caught trying to sneak a huge new steel plant past the central government's regulators, who had ordered a slowdown in the steel industry.
I don't recall a similar public scolding of, say, Jack Welch for his marital transgressions.
Still, the public scolding puts News Corp. in unusual company for a media organization.
His public scolding of the top ulema, aired on national television, was unprecedented.
Speaking on Friday in Winnipeg, Justin Trudeau said his government had addressed the public scolding with China.
Maybe that was the point of Coughlin not having to play the public scold.
Now, as then, voters dislike sanctimonious public scolds, regardless of faith or party, as much as they dislike public scoundrels.
Today shock can seem indistinguishable from scandal, less a side effect of artistic innovation than a ploy ginned up by self-promoting artists and public scolds.
In the past, Mr. Peterson — the billionaire co-founder of the Blackstone Group and public scold of costly entitlement programs, ballooning government deficits and cozy tax arrangements — would rise to such a debating challenge.
