self-rebuke

The spirit of fathomless self-rebuke would spread to America during the Vietnam era, when defeat was almost welcomed as the penalty for America's many sins.

Parallel Lives Arthur Herman 2011

They had dressed in awkward silence, and now he stood stiffly by the stile, his hands tucked under his arms as if he could ward off the self-rebuke.

Aching for Always Gwyn Cready 2010

The diary entries in "The Sixties" are a mix of quotidian detail, social observation, moody reverie, gossip and self-rebuke.

Diaries Erich Eichman 2010

As she raised her face slowly from the posture to which a momentary feeling of self-rebuke had depressed it, her eyes encountered those of Roland, and became gradually animated with their usual spirit of malicious drollery, which not unnaturally excited a similar expression in those of the equally volatile page.

The Abbot 2008

Nor, somehow, was she ashamed of herself for being happy afterwards, but gave way to her natural good-humour without repentance or self-rebuke.

Mens Wives 2006

And after each self-rebuke she stumbled again on “I just wonder — —”

Main Street 2004

He had looked for rapturous joy in loving this lovely creature, and he already found that he met with little but disappointment and self-rebuke.

Barchester Towers 2004

After some inner argument, reassurance countered by denial and self-rebuke, Karen Duncan took the scarf round to the charity shop where they let her exchange it for a black velvet hat.

Piranha to Scurfy & Other Stories Rendell, Ruth 2000

How did I forget that? he saw her ask herself, blinking rather hard in a mild self-rebuke.

The Bear and the Dragon Clancy, Tom, 1947- 2000

These patients project their own acrimonious self-rebuke superego and sadistically attack the therapist verbally or physically for supposed misdeeds or defections.

Clinical Work with Adolescents Judith Marks Mishne 1986