Sentence examples for scold that from inspiring English sources

And it tells you something about the way this production works that the gala title number, for all the brassy exuberance one associates with this composer, isn't as affecting as the moment later on when the softening scold that is Mr. Corduner's Horace gets down on bended knee before Ms. Spiro and speaks the musical's title directly to her.

Back in Kansas, Auntie Em is delivering the scolding that is the prelude to one of the cinema's immortal moments.

Sure, there'll be the occasional scolds that'll clutch their pearls and fret about the children, but he isn't expected to be a representative of an entire race or harangued with the politics of respectability.

Hoping to avoid the lasting stain of Congressional censure and the indignity of the public scolding that accompanies it, Representative Charles B. Rangel has embarked on a last-ditch campaign to convince colleagues that he deserves the far less serious punishment of a reprimand for his ethics violations, according to two people close to Mr. Rangel.

My widow informs her of the problem, accepts a scolding that goes on for at least five minutes and incorporates a dozen ancient grievances, and then she waits on the line for another fifteen minutes while Inge hobbles out to the garage to check the car.

Yet in Italy, the only forceful condemnation of the plan came from another member of Mr. Berlusconi's center-right coalition, who pointed out that the government could not suspend Italy's constitutional right to protest -- a scolding that ended the matter.

Krugman wrote that now that the economy is recovering, "deficits are receding as an issue before our eyes," which he predicted will anger "deficit scolds" that are "set on exploiting the alleged fiscal crisis to dismantle social insurance programs".

After all, we still remember that time when Tipper Gore got so worked up over the lyrics to Prince's "Darling Nikki" that she led a crusade against rock music that would shamed all of the prudish scolds that were always bedeviling the protagonists of John Waters' films.

The magazine noted a scolding that the United States received from Chinese officials.

The older woman had so often scolded that the Devil should fetch her away.

What a pity, she scolded, that Virginia Woolf wasn't number four or five.