Sentence examples for reproach upon from inspiring English sources
For he believed that if he should slight even the smallest detail, this would bring reproach upon all his other actions.
"The circumstances of his election shocked the country and cast reproach upon the state of Illinois".
Swift spared not the vice of rich or poor; and, disdaining to amuse the imaginations of his audience with discussion of dark points of divinity, or warm them by a flow of sentimental devotion, he rushes at once to the point of moral depravity, and upbraids them with their favourite and predominant vices in a tone of stern reproof, bordering upon reproach.
The chopper!" She stood back and regarded him with tight-lipped, mild reproach, like a mother gazing upon an unbiddable, scalawag son.
It is nothing short of criminal for any publishing firm in these days to issue books for the young upon which any reproach of the kind can be cast.
Among its lines: "On approaching that revered bench, one resounding note contains a pantheon of centrifugal light," and "Does Apollo breathe the same as you and I, upon the approach beyond reproach?" Edward Wong.
Why, in your now venerable role as guardian of culture, should you reproach an artist for similarly dispersing his own wit upon a civilization bent on constraining Time to the role of a metronome beating out the regimentation of society?
Physicians often omit to ask whether the patient is using such therapies however, and some patients are reluctant to discuss such issues for fear of reproach or medical censure [ 9], which may impact upon the reliability of patient reported symptoms when making a definitive diagnosis as to the cause of the patient's problems.
When called upon to defend what we did, or when we blame or reproach ourselves, or simply wonder whether we did the right thing (or the sensible thing, the rational thing, and so on), we evaluate our action by comparing it to what we believe were our other possible actions, at that time.
