Sentence examples for self-admonishment from inspiring English sources

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It was a tour de force of self-admonishment, a triumph of doggedness.

Bairstow beat the ground in self-admonishment, aware in that horrible moment of  what he might have cost his side.

Entitlement shifts from peevishness to what sounds like self-admonishment: "Not one single person on God's golden shore is entitled to one single thing," he sings.

Understandably rusty in defeat to the Russian Evgeniya Rodina, losing 6-4, 6-4, Robson was all plaintive looks skywards, muttered self-admonishment and frustrated glances at her coach, Mauricio Hadad.

Most of the time it feels good being good: I like to wake up with a relatively clear head; I'm able to move from one day to the next without always catastrophising a situation; I mostly manage to avoid the self-admonishment that results in me eating half a cake or telling the children to bugger off.

His first-innings dismissal was the result of a technical flaw exposed by Kemar Roach, and the second a wide full ball poked tamely to gully, where his determination to re-establish his judgment outside off stump, something that had been a hallmark of his game at his best, was undone by a clear lapse in concentration to judge by his self-admonishment.

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Significantly, in this set and through most of his best patches in the match, Murray turned the volume down to almost inaudible in his self admonishment, and there were good reasons to be content.

"Learn not to play the guitar," Cobain wrote, in a list of self-admonishments.

Annie: Yeah, well, but I could… Keaton's mumbled self-admonishments throughout the film – "I don't, I don't, jeez, I don't know.

The crushing desire to wake him up and confront him twisted into constant self-admonishments about my own cowardice.

His admonishment denies the self-serving convenience of partitioning what one feels and believes in the church pew from what one does in the profane realm.

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