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Reproach in sentence

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I delivered a lecture in which I described history as, on the whole, a tidal wave of human suffering and brutality, and Mr. Teszler came up to me afterwards with gentle reproach and said, "You know, Doctor, human beings are fundamentally good."
As a Hallmark movie, the costumes, sets, and production amenities are beyond reproach and the script still manages to seem fresh and funny, despite some familiar themes.
Finally freed of the wise sages and authority figures beyond reproach that have become his big-screen specialty, Freeman seems comparatively liberated as a somewhat self-indulgent movie star.
Every frame of animation of this is beyond reproach, and the masterfully done 3D is seamlessly integrated.
I find Ms. McEwan's portrayal of the aging sleuth to be above reproach and I give her top marks.
In another country, such measures might trigger harsh reproach, with critics accusing Xi of turning his country into an old-school Leninist dictatorship.
He somehow found it easier to criticize Zimbabwe, Cuba, and Burma than Saudi Arabia and Pakistan, and he quickly toned down his initial reproach of Egypt.
Given this history, it is a bit shabby to reproach China now for its exchange-rate policy – a policy that enabled the US to live beyond its means for so long.
The answer may be that we, too, feel that we ought to live much more ethically, and the people described in Strangers Drowning are a standing reproach to our own way of life.
I never accepted that reproach of the EU and its institutions, but I do see a new and dangerous deficit within the Union – a trust deficit, both among governments, and among the citizens of various member countries.
As matters currently stand, when future generations place our leaders in historical perspective, they will most likely reproach them, above all, for their lack of institutional imagination.
Both of India’s last two presidents had distinguished themselves in professional careers before being elected – one in the Foreign Service and the other in nuclear physics – and their reputations were above reproach.
Free Kurdistan will be a living reproach to the many false nations, anti-nations, and prison nations across the Middle East, in which Kurds, among others, remain confined.
Confronted with the new tests and challenges that are bound to stem from that reproach – challenges that independence alone will not suffice to surmount – the Kurdish people must recognize that they are likely to find themselves as alone as they have ever been in their long history.
The country’s economy has been much more open than most others during the same period, and its astounding trade success – exports now account for about 60% of GDP growth – therefore deserves respect, not reproach.
African civil society, whose mouthpiece is the press, cannot escape some measure of reproach for its failure to urge leaders to rescue fellow Africans.
For this, it drew a stern reproach from Germany’s Bundesbank – a clear sign that it is doing something right.
Afterwards, she will say to the young man, in a tone of gentle reproach, “too lyrical.”
In Europe, the combined carrot of northern transfers and the stick of northern reproach did the trick.
So puissant a Caesar must be above reproach.
Because dispute resolution is key to any successful investment regime, the process for resolving disagreements must be beyond reproach.
Europe is not above reproach, either.
Indeed, Europeans constantly reproach Russia for the increasing level of state interference.
Modi’s policy intervention is bold, and the economic principles motivating it are beyond reproach.
Yet Chinese governance has not exactly been beyond reproach.
But neither president can guarantee that recrimination and reproach will not take on a life of its own.
The PiS administration is beyond reproach, not because it is a moral authority, but precisely because it is so shamelessly immoral.
The reproach, which came in the form of an essay published by the Atlantic Council, is unprecedented but not unwarranted.
But directly she opened her mouth, words of reproach, senseless jealousy, and everything else that had been torturing her during the half-hour she had sat motionless waiting at the window, burst from her.
Of course it is not her fault; there is nothing to reproach her with.
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