How To Use self-reproach In A Sentence
- I felt, in reading your unreproaching letter to her, as self-reproachful as anybody could with a great deal of innocence (in the way of the world) to fall back upon. The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1 of 2)
- Crane refused to face him, sliding down into self-reproach.
- Cutting through Jett's self-reproach, it seemed that Moira had felt increasingly insignificant as Jett became the idol of millions. DEAD BEAT
- He isn't happy to find himself outside his native realm, speaking a foreign language, but his homesick longing takes the form of self-reproach.
- Happy, happy is the wife, in the depth of her affliction, on the loss of a worthy husband; happy the husband, if he must be separated from a good wife; who has no material cause for self-reproach to imbitter reflection, as to his or her conduct to the departed. Sir Charles Grandison
- But to feel guilty and full of self-reproach is a waste of time, for, if you feel that way for very long, you are likely to repeat the excess eating, as your own neurotic way out of your dilemma.
- Moreover, murderers are of all criminals the most prone to genuine remorse and self-reproach.
- And yet, still self-reproachfully, he also continued to search his soul concerning his own country, "our great unxix endowed, unfurnished, unentertained? unentertaining continent, where [...] we ought to have leisure to turn out something handsome from the very heart of simple human nature. 'The Complete Letters of Henry James, 1872-1876, Volume 1'
- And through it all he had the quick memory of his mother's companionship, he could recall her rueful looks whenever the eager inaccurate ways, in which he reflected certain ineradicable tendencies of her own, had lost him a school advantage; he could remember her exhortations, with the dash in them of humorous self-reproach which made them so stirring to the child's affection; and he could realise their old far-off life at Murewell, the joys and the worries of it, and see her now gossiping with the village folk, now wearing herself impetuously to death in their service, and now roaming with him over the Surrey heaths in search of all the dirty delectable things in which a boy-naturalist delights. Robert Elsmere
- It may even be that not a little of this effect is due to the writer's enabling us thenceforward to enjoy our own day-dreams without self-reproach or shame.
