Word: reproacher
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...whom the people see their better selves ideally refleeted." But there was a corollary: in reflecting the national ideal, the monarchy must not set itself apart and away from the people it represents. The reflection must be that of normality clothed in ermine, and while the institution remains beyond reproach, the wearers of the ermine must show themselves warm and human beneath. When romance conflicts with the canons of the Established Church, and with the Briton's inbred view of royalty, it is no easy role...
...exploiter." Reprobate Innocent. He began to get assignments writing and reading for the BBC. He also wrote documentary films, though producers sometimes had to lock him in a hotel room to wring a finished script out of him. People loved him as a sort of raffish reproach to the world of respectability, a reprobate innocent. He got away with almost anything. The story goes that as an honored guest for an Oxford poetry society which served only select wines, Thomas asked for a jug of beer at the outset, cheerfully poured each successive vintage wine into the same...
...Cavan, professor of English at Harvard and a man dedicated to his friends, his teaching, and his ideals. But these ideals demand too much from Cavan and he demands the same from his friends. He is uncompromising, the kind of man for whom even the term "liberal" is a reproach, and a sign of diluted vigor. Cavan commits suicide, but just as he was too intense to live, he is too intense to die. His friends cannot turn their eyes from his vision or pry his grip from their lives...
When corruption was rife, when top officials piled up vast fortunes in unexplained transactions, when officers defected, Chiang instinctively turned his thoughts inward to reproach himself for failure to inspire with his own standards. After his final retreat to Formosa, he told the National Assembly: "I must put the blame on myself . . . The disastrous military reverses on the mainland were not due to the overwhelming strength of the Communists, but due to the organizational collapse, loose discipline and low spirits of the party members...
...dismiss Amenhotep. He was the first monotheist among the Egyptians. He was a great genius, very human, very individual. That he scratched out his father's name is not the main thing at all." Whereupon Freud fainted dead away. Jung's explanation: "Indirectly, he was continuing his reproach that I had scratched out the father's name-that is, his name...