self-chastisement

"No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear," he writes at the opening of this book, in which nothing is held back—the bitterness, the self-pity, the self-chastisement for having the self-pity, his anger with his beloved God.

Deathless Accounts Of Mourning Adam Haslett 2011

Berry caught words of self-chastisement for telling her about the damn pictures.

Tough Customer Sandra Brown 2010

Nevertheless, he was scared, and for all of his self-chastisement he had to force himself to walk down the porch steps and up the gravel driveway.

Baby Games Chelsea White 2010

Kant follows Hume in rejecting fasting, self-flagellation, mortification of the flesh and other forms of physical self-chastisement and self-abasement as false virtues.

Kant and Hume on Morality Denis, Lara 2008

I frankly bought a lot of these books under the grim self-chastisement: "I should read these books because everyone keeps dropping their names..."

Archive 2008-09-01 2008

I have been given so much opportunity for personal growth over the last many months, and when I look back at that time through this opportunity-focused lens, it flips my habitual self-chastisement on its head.

Opportunity In Crisis 2008

After much soul searching and years of self-chastisement, I have managed to forgive myself, somewhat.

Warrior to Warrior: Welcome Home 2008

I frankly bought a lot of these books under the grim self-chastisement: "I should read these books because everyone keeps dropping their names..."

MEANWHILE, SHOULD I ATTEND ONCE MORE TO FOUCAULT? 2008

I have been given so much opportunity for personal growth over the last many months, and when I look back at that time through this opportunity-focused lens, it flips my habitual self-chastisement on its head.

Archive 2008-10-01 2008

Suddenly Shiites are taking to the streets with their deeply traditional rituals of mourning and self-chastisement, which had been prohibited by Saddam's government.

What About the Iraqis? Caryl, Christian 2007