Word: reproacher
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...single-mindedly says: "Woman is the reason for my existence." Since, like Berlin, he can neither read nor write music, he pecks out his tunes on a piano and lets others set them down. In this fashion he has written some 600 songs of love, of whispered reproach and moaning despair...
...faker of history that Beria first came to Stalin's favorable notice. In 1935, Beria wrote a pamphlet glorifying Stalin as the hero of the Bolshevik struggle in Transcaucasia. False in almost all of its particulars, it made Stalin a hero without fear and without reproach, provided many phony arguments against Trotsky and other factions opposed to Stalin's extension of personal power...
...gave a judgment on his own literary output with which few critics in 1953 would disagree : "I have written between 70 and 80 books. But also I have written only four: The Old Wives' Tale, The Card, Clay-hanger and Riceyman Steps. All the others are made a reproach...
...Flemish shrimp merchant who had made good in politics. The marriage was morganatic; instead of becoming Queen, Liliane took the title of Princess de Réthy, and renounced all rights of succession. But the news, when the German radio leaked it, shocked Belgians and brought this reproach from a Brussels newspaper: "Sire! We thought you had your face turned towards us in our misery; instead, you had it hidden on the shoulder of a woman...
...what was still, in Biographer Johnson's words, a "technically innocent" relationship, Dickens drove her to a separation while waging an acrimonious publicity duel with her family. But it took Dickens five years to coax Ellen to place "comfort before chastity." Their affair was blotted with self-reproach. Ellen did not really love him, and after Dickens' death she married a clergyman, and said to a friend that she "loathed the very thought of the intimacy" with Dickens...