The mere mention of godparenting can elicit exclamations of guilt, shame and self-rebuke.
Afterwards, in a fit of self-rebuke, Este took off her own eyelashes too.
She came to understand "you're no genius" as a self-rebuke.
After "A Little Princess" and "Great Expectations," the new movie feels almost like a self-rebuke.
This was neither carelessness nor any failure of affection on her part, but rather fear, and realizing it made me wince in self-rebuke.
But he fully believes that what perpetuating his deception has cost him in self-rebuke is full payment for his actions.
Along with hundreds of others in the cultural élite, Ma Sicong, the head of the Central Conservatory, was locked in the grounds of the Communist Party School in Beijing, where he was made to read Mao's works, clean toilets, haul rocks, and compose odes of self-rebuke.
Clark's desperate lechery, repeatedly broken promises to himself to reform, his snobbery, his political inanities, his low moments of self-rebuke and even his hypochondria are all very reminiscent of that great diarist, James Boswell and, at times, of Samuel Pepys himself.
Our study tested reciprocal relations between self-critical perfectionism (i.e., intense self-rebuke, negative reactions to perceived failures, and nagging self-doubt about actions) and social anxiety.
Self-critical perfectionism (i.e., negative reactions to perceived failures, concern over others' criticism and expectations, doubts about abilities, and intense self-rebuke) represents a putative vulnerability factor for depressive symptoms.
The present study overcomes these limitations by using a novel design involving both self- and informant reports of self-critical perfectionism (i.e., negative reactions to perceived failures, concern over others' criticism and expectations, doubts about performance abilities, and intense self-rebuke).
