How To Use Recrimination In A Sentence
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The affair ended in rancour and recrimination.
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This led to tears, recrimination and argument.
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But I digress (if not faff): the important point, at least for me, is that I went, I saw, I ate, I drank, but did so without regret or self-recrimination.
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This is a time for recrimination and finger-pointing!
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While the recriminations continued to fly, hundreds of bodies remained unclaimed in mosques at the pilgrimage site.
Times, Sunday Times
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You have obviously done some thinking that has enabled you to put bitterness and recriminations to one side.
Times, Sunday Times
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Even nonpublic reversals have been cause for recrimination.
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A recrimination is a counter-charge, and is typically legalese and is only used in court, by a defendant against a plaintiff.
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A far juicier opportunity for recrimination occurred in March, when it was discovered that a company bookkeeper named F. M. Scott had absquatulated with some $25,000.
Mark Twain
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Replays showed that the ball had pitched outside leg stump, but it was too late for recriminations.
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The defendant cannot engage in recrimination or trade defamatory comments with the claimant.
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Now, mutual recriminations, personal attacks on leaders and mudslinging are the order of the day.
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Somehow it made her heart ache with a wild mix of anguish and recrimination.
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We spent the rest of the evening in mutual recrimination.
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There is a suggestion that this sparked dark arguments and recriminations.
The Sun
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But this intrigue of the antient is a piece of private history, the truth of which my beloved cares not to own, and indeed affects to disbelieve: as she does also some puisny gallantries of her foolish brother; which, by way of recrimination, I have hinted at, without naming my informant in their family.
Clarissa Harlowe
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With amnesty there is no recrimination, punishment or retribution.
Times, Sunday Times
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With amnesty there is no recrimination, punishment or retribution.
Times, Sunday Times
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The game of pinocle was frequently halted for recriminations.
The Huntress
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The peace talks broke down and ended in bitter mutual recrimination.
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Awakening from catatonia and diving directly into high-decibel pleading, recriminations, and rants is no mean feat.
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There was argument and recrimination but it was too expensive to put the excised passages back.
Ford Madox Ford
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Allowing players to voice their grievances will simply give rise to an atmosphere of poisonous recrimination.
Times, Sunday Times
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The Thrale mother-daughter relationship is full of spite and recrimination.
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Anyone who reads this newsgroup can see at a glance what's wrong: finger-pointing and recriminations dominate the discussion.
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I don't want any recriminations if this goes wrong.
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Matters aren't helped by the fact that the bitter recriminations continue to rumble on.
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After the recriminations, the England team could only trudge back home in comprehensive defeat for the second time this year.
Times, Sunday Times
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When that, too, failed, the waxen-faced summiteers emerged, and the recriminations began.
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Obviously there is anger, recrimination, bitterness.
Times, Sunday Times
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He came out of a medically induced coma after nine days but bitter recriminations remain over whether the fight should have been stopped earlier.
The Sun
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There was argument and recrimination but it was too expensive to put the excised passages back.
Ford Madox Ford
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This morning's Cabinet meeting is also expected to be tense, especially after the latest round of recriminations.
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As the meeting progressed, it was clear the anger, the resentment and the recriminations had, temporarily at least, dissipated.
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True, nobody's nerves could have withstood more recriminations.
FINAL RESORT
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There was argument and recrimination but it was too expensive to put the excised passages back.
Ford Madox Ford
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Either course of action will bring short-term howls of recrimination from the right ... but this mini-surge deeper into the quagmire is going to sink the administration without question. declining 35 percent approval rating for management of the war in Afghanistan
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The point of protecting whistle-blowers is to protect them from recrimination.
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My mother for her part would go red in the face and spout bitter recriminations.
Positive Parent Power
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The beauty of the accused, her undeniable charm of manner, the hitherto blameless character of her life, all tended to make the public take violent sides either for or against her, and the usual budget of amateur correspondence, suggestions, recriminations and advice poured into the chief's office in titanic proportions.
Lady Molly of Scotland Yard
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There is no bitterness or recrimination on his part.
Times, Sunday Times
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It begins in desire, and ends in bitterness and contempt and mutual recriminations.
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What you see is what you get: petty machinations, jealousy and recrimination.
Times, Sunday Times
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The first draft is bound to be filled with anger and recrimination.
Times, Sunday Times
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Cynthia was still not beyond such bouts of self-recrimination.
EVERY SECRET THING
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Then, however, without any kind of recrimination, any display of anger, or even any particular effort to regain her ascendency over him, she, on her side, imitated his example.
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Four cases lapsed because complainants fearing recriminations for the long-term viability of their businesses were unwilling to proceed against a retailer.
Times, Sunday Times
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Now I just wish that all three main parties would stop with the waffle and recrimination and concentrate instead on what has become one huge stinking mess because of total and utter lack of any thought as to what comes after war.
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Matters aren't helped by the fact that the bitter recriminations continue to rumble on.
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These were times of turmoil and tragedy, of dangerous confrontations and bitter recriminations.
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Mr. Lugo-Galicia reports that he was "irate," and launched recriminations against his closest confidants saying, "they lied to me, they deceived me.
Showdown at Fort Tiuna
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They emerged from the marriage with warmth and affection for each other - not anger and recrimination.
Times, Sunday Times
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There was no guarantee he wouldn't get close enough to do it again anyway, and Stone would far rather his man operated with a clear mind, unclouded with worries of recrimination upon his return.
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Either course of action will bring short-term howls of recrimination from the right ... but this mini-surge deeper into the quagmire is going to sink the administration without question. declining 35 percent approval rating for management of the war in Afghanistan
Five questions for Obama on Afghan war
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Disingenuous appeals of "trust me" on the pages of the Washington Post aren't going to stop what Panetta calls "recrimination" that will supposedly cause the brave men and women of the CIA to "pay a price.
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He found such a target in Avigdor Lieberman, but his recriminations [2] betray the deep seated queasiness which is spreading among the pro-Palestinian crowd.
A Case of Freudian Projection
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There were bitter feelings, recriminations.
Times, Sunday Times
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Recriminations and quips, annoyance and displeasure - these are parts of the game.
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But it is crucial that the meeting is not consumed by recriminations about the past, and instead focuses on salvaging the club's future.
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Accusations and recriminations are thrown about and the characters occasionally become overwrought.
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It's the story of a lovelorn girl whose suicide provokes bitter recriminations.
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Amid the federal election's accusations and recriminations, snake bites and bear-baiting, a bit of mirth did manage to sneak in.
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The comments produced another spate of recriminations and prophecies of doom from opposition parties.
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The other almost always requires a delicate dance through a minefield of potential libel, antediluvian prejudice, and post-publication recriminations.
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The split has made enemies of comrades who have struggled side by side for decades, and the bitter recriminations continue.
Times, Sunday Times
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He had not intended this kind of recrimination, but he was exasperated with her wearied acceptance of his reproaches and by a sudden conviction that his long-cherished grievance against her now that he had voiced it was inadequate, mean, and trifling.
A Protegee of Jack Hamlin's and Other Stories
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But, instead of retreating into pointless recriminations and bitter words, he sought a pragmatic way forward.
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He came out of a medically induced coma after nine days but bitter recriminations remain over whether the fight should have been stopped earlier.
The Sun
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Certainly, this year's conference was a platform for bitter recriminations against the government.
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Allowing players to voice their grievances will simply give rise to an atmosphere of poisonous recrimination.
Times, Sunday Times
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Blame, expostulations, recriminations and horseplay - David provides an up-close-and-personal document of the family's most wrenchingly private moments.
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On Tuesday night the prevailing themes - after the recriminations - were reconciliation and rehabilitation.
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A flurry of recriminations has followed the sale of a major waterside development site to a leading national housebuilder.
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In The Scarlet Letter, Hester Prynne becomes coolly exceptional in her idealistic determination to lie beyond the common ground of social expectations, unlike her betrayer, the Reverend Dimmesdale who wallows in self-recriminations, guilt and discomfort, as if he had taken the conventional female role in relation to illicit passion.
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There could be no reproach in listening to these, unresented, but Santron assumed a most indignant air, and more than once affected to be overcome by a spirit of recrimination.
Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, July, 1851
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But already the parties are preparing the ground for recriminations over the failure of the entire process.
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Why not put an end, once and for all, to the scandal of our mutual recriminations?
Paul VI - The First Modern Pope
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A three-part series full of rancour and recrimination lifts the lid on its work.
Times, Sunday Times
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recrimination" - said the Folkstone-based agency had assured her the couple moving into her two-bedroom property were pleasant and well behaved.
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The suffering of illness is thus compounded by an additional burden of guilt and recrimination.
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There's chaos at the hospital as lives hang in the balance and the recriminations begin.
The Sun
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Inevitably, recrimination begins with his putting.
Times, Sunday Times
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After being bombarded with tears and recriminations, my dad finally gives up.
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Bitter accusations and recriminations followed the disaster.
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He must try to communicate that to the children who were filled with evident self-recrimination, Katherine particularly.
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Yet champagne is associated in the public mind with celebration rather than remorse or recrimination.
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Yet we find ourselves this autumn in an atmosphere of anger and recrimination.
Times, Sunday Times
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But that promise has come to naught, amid recriminations about his refusal to make a formal apology for the treatment meted out to Aboriginals by generations of white Australians.
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With it came an afternoon of reminiscing and recriminations.
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After questioning him, he launched into a diatribe of self-recrimination.
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There are no recriminations, no judgement, no intrusive questions.
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The annual recrimination about parental choice teaches us that there are still not enough good schools.
Times, Sunday Times
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Amid the federal election's accusations and recriminations, snake bites and bear-baiting, a bit of mirth did manage to sneak in.
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For others, though, it's a dreaded nightmare of confrontation and recrimination, self-destructive despair and passive-aggressive treachery.
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After the recriminations, the England team could only trudge back home in comprehensive defeat for the second time this year.
Times, Sunday Times
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The bitter rows and recriminations have finally ended the relationship.
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Bitter recriminations followed for years afterwards.
Times, Sunday Times
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She should suffer, too — and the foretasted anguish and pleasure of hot recriminations dulled all other feelings in him.
Maurice Guest
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Instead, the crisis rapidly deepened amidst ever greater distrust and recrimination.
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Silence from those endless gnawing questions that all ended in a cul-de-sac of self-recrimination.
GRACE
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They emerged from the marriage with warmth and affection for each other - not anger and recrimination.
Times, Sunday Times
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We must avoid facile recriminations about who was to blame.
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Bitter accusations and recriminations followed the disaster.
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There was argument and recrimination but it was too expensive to put the excised passages back.
Ford Madox Ford
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Recriminations will be many, various and, in some quarters, unsparing after flickering hopes of reaching the World Cup play-offs were extinguished by Belarus.
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What transpires is a downward spiral of shame and recriminations culminating in Veena being shunned by her family and turned out of the house.
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Your approach should be made directly, simply and without recriminations or emotion.
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The recriminations fogged and weighed, like the heat of the morning between his shoulderblades, but Harrell continued to indulge them.
THE LAST RAVEN
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The newspapers are so full of criticism and discussion of crimination and recrimination regarding Brest, and are so prone that I should like very much, if you have time in your very busy days to drop me a line, that you would write me as to the situation as it is now.
Devil Dog
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By now, many readers will have been turned off - and perhaps be confused - by the cascade of apologias and recriminations which have come from the participants in the still ongoing ‘blame game’.
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“It is by being just to Individuals, to each other, to the Union, to all; by generous grants of solid Revenue, and by adopting energetic measures to collect that Revenue; and not by complainings, vauntings, or recriminations that these States must expect to establish their Independence.”
Robert Morris
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Now that the volcanic ash cloud is fading away and flights resuming, the recriminations are beginning.
Times, Sunday Times
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The day ended with demonstrations and recriminations at Old Trafford with thousands of hard core fans vowing never to return.
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The part that is visible is cold - lots of mutual recriminations - and jagged.
Times, Sunday Times
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In other cases, there would be fierce debate, enmity and bitter recrimination.
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On this day, we come to proclaim an end to the petty grievances and false promises, the recriminations and worn-out dogmas that for far too long have strangled our politics.
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But this intrigue of the antient is a piece of private history, the truth of which my beloved cares not to own, and indeed affects to disbelieve: as she does also some puisny gallantries of her foolish brother; which, by way of recrimination, I have hinted at, without naming my informant in their family.
Clarissa Harlowe
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On the contrary, their relationship was initially defined not by rancour and recrimination but mutual admiration.
Times, Sunday Times
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It's the story of a lovelorn girl whose suicide provokes bitter recriminations.
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Slowly I progress on my downward spiral, but am saved from sinking completely into the mire of self-recrimination by the jolting reality of sudden stillness.
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We must avoid facile recriminations about who was to blame.
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It was inevitable that the recriminations would begin.
Times, Sunday Times
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People are afraid of talking openly about the problems because of possible recriminations.
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Then the child is yelled at or mentally manipulated by guilt - based recrimination from teachers and parents.
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The peace talks broke down and ended in bitter mutual recrimination.
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Blame, expostulations, recriminations and horseplay - David provides an up-close-and-personal document of the family's most wrenchingly private moments.
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At first there were recriminations, about the blitz on London, the firestorm in Dresden and many other things it seemed reasonable to recriminate about.
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The mutual recriminations are extremely bitter, leaving wounds that will fester.
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This was not, then, a stage set for anger and recrimination.
Times, Sunday Times
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It makes no difference how much the other might desire it, the issue is closed, with no recriminations, no sulks, no argument, just the simple acceptance of the other's view.
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After many retakes and recriminations, he finally manages to muddle through, and the session comes to an end.
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WOODRUFF: I think there's going to be every which kind of recrimination you can imagine. there's going to be somebody from every corner saying, "Well, if you'd only done this," or, "If you'd only done that" -- that's to be expected after a loss as heartbreaking as this one.
CNN Transcript Nov 3, 2004
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The last-ditch effort to bridge the gap between richer and poorer nations failed amid recriminations on both sides of the wealth divide.
Times, Sunday Times
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The first lord bore most of the bitter political recriminations for the failure.
Times, Sunday Times
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Now brace yourselves for years of bitterness and recrimination in the rest of the UK.
The Sun
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Would there be tears and recriminations; bitterness and regret?
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Both concern marriage attained through unatoned sin, maintained despite suspicion and recrimination, resolved at last by death.
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And waited in rage and self-recrimination as the elevator began its irrevocable descent?
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In a scene of recriminations and reproaches, they both viciously lash into each other.
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Days later, the Caricom summit's opening session heard Mr Manning's recriminations, unbecomingly and unhelpfully directed at former regional beneficiaries of T & T largesse.
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It's the story of a lovelorn girl whose suicide provokes bitter recriminations.
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The agreement soon led to bitter recriminations.
The Collins History of the World in the 20th Century
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And waited in rage and self-recrimination as the elevator began its irrevocable descent?
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Well-meaning military innovators had believed that mixed-rank exercises would enhance career development an dencourage nonhierarchical communication, but the actual result was rivalry and recrimination.
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Johnson held the squad and management together when recriminations threatened to tear it to pieces.
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While the recriminations continued to fly, hundreds of bodies remained unclaimed in mosques at the pilgrimage site.
Times, Sunday Times
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As for Abbot, this kind of recrimination was a daily thing with him.
Sheppard Lee
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We say recrimination but not usually crimination, and reverberation but not verberation.
Times, Sunday Times
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On the contrary, their relationship was initially defined not by rancour and recrimination but mutual admiration.
Times, Sunday Times
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In spite of this, the relationship soon stumbled over Iraq, missile defense, and NATO expansion, reaching a low point during Bush's second term punctuated by mutual recriminations and thinly veiled threats.
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