Word: reproaches
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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After a short reproach, the police left, and the group marched off the steps to burn its pizza-box clock. Traditionally, the cult burns its clock in front of the John Harvard statue, but as they left the library steps, one woman told her leader, "Maybe this year we should do it in the quad." Joshua D. Fine
Miller was, and is, equally capable of astonished joy ("Sleeping through Heaven"), comic enthusiasm ("The Girls Are Ready to Go," unaccountably abbreviated on the new CD's label as "TGARTG"), Elvis Costello-ish self-mockery ("Bad Year at UCLA"), and honestly painful self-reproach ("The Red Baron"). Once you stop noticing how high his voice is, you'll probably start noticing its agility: "I want to go bang on every door/And say 'Wake up, you're sleeping through heaven'" has three contrasting riffs buried in it. Your average power-pop singer would give it one at most. Far from being...
Revelations that his administration turned down requests for heavy armor that could have backed up American troops in Somalia reflect his failure. His reproach of Europe was an intentional distraction from his own shortcomings...
...following cases: the poor of Appalachia, the nation's small farmers and legal immigrants. Each group is on the verge of economic collapse, and as a result needs to be attended to now, not next year. Though the causes of Emily's List and the NAACP are above reproach, they have booming voices. More importantly, they are currently secure, both politically and economically...
Leroy built the stairs. But even this dogged optimist, who says he is "only a dumb swamp Yankee," can see that his wife's "eyes are full of disappointment." Yes, in him -- a reproach tempered by Patricia's realization that he has stayed, through 20 years of her illness, because he remembers her as she was and could be again. Now he wants her to live for something more than gratitude: "You just have to love this world...