How To Use Self-reproach In A Sentence
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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)
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Crane refused to face him, sliding down into self-reproach.
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Cutting through Jett's self-reproach, it seemed that Moira had felt increasingly insignificant as Jett became the idol of millions.
DEAD BEAT
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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.
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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
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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.
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Moreover, murderers are of all criminals the most prone to genuine remorse and self-reproach.
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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'
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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
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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.
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In the rare moments when the self-reproach would ease up, grief or dejection would engulf him.
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But then he had come back to all this, that slight sense of nagging self-reproach, even though there was no justifiable reason.
DREAMS OF INNOCENCE
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Still, pleasant as her recollections were, she often looked back self-reproachfully upon passages of her youth; and Sainte-Beuve, though he calls her coquetry "_une coquetterie angelique_," recognizes it as a blemish.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 84, October, 1864
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Tom, who stood by her, idly spinning the curtain tassel, followed the familiar figure with his eye, and seeing how gray the hair had grown, how careworn the florid face, and how like a weary old man his once strong, handsome father walked, he was smitten by a new pang of self-reproach, and with his usual impetuosity set about repairing the omission as soon as he discovered it.
An Old-Fashioned Girl
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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.
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He broke off and cursed in silent self-reproach as he saw tears trickling down the lowered head.
SAN ANDREAS
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Some develop a major depression with self-reproach and survivor guilt.
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Besides the jar of contrast there came to her a chill self-reproach that she had not returned sooner, to help her mother in these domesticities, instead of indulging herself out-of-doors.
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All the voices of self-reproach start talking at once and I'll never do anything right.
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In the rare moments when the self-reproach would ease up, grief or dejection would engulf him.
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Her sense of ‘regret, self-reproach and resentment’ is further intensified when she reads a newspaper report of the magnificent wedding of her former suitor.
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Moreover, if blame in general is irrational, so must be self-blame or self-reproach, unless this comes simply to resolving to do better next time.
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The biblical texts are full of suffering and self-reproach and the intensity of these responsores may well amaze you.
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Marked self-reproach, early morning waking, and weight loss were not seen in this type of patient.
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The answer, again, comes in the theory of masochistic self-reproach sparked by the perpetual process of mourning an irreconcilable loss.
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She looked into his face, and guilt and self-reproach dissolved, along with the memory of another face, other eyes, ones that haunted and weighed her down with unresolvable pain.
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By apologizing and taking responsibility for our actions we help rid ourselves of esteem-robbing self-reproach and guilt.
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It may have looked harmless enough, but Jenny knew what it stood for - guilt and self-reproach.
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Which of us, in fact, has the force of character to be superior to petty vanity, to _petty fine feelings_, sympathy and self-reproach? ...
The Diary of a Superfluous Man and Other Stories
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Her reaction is a source of self-reproach to this day.