Word: reproaches
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Those who guessed wrong would be saved from conspicuous ignominy by the multitude of others who also guessed wrong if anyone bothered to reproach them--but no one will...
Groan of Ages. Of Charles, as of Shakespeare's Duncan, it was said that nothing in his life so much became him as his leaving of it. Calmly mounting the scaffold outside his own banquet hall at Westminster, the King said, more in sadness than in reproach: "I go from a corruptible to an incorruptible Crown, where no disturbance can be." When Charles's head was cut off, a witness recalls, "such a groan went up from the crowd as I never heard before, and I desire I may never hear again...
...supreme adventure for man's spirit as well as his rockets. The stars and the moon have long been symbols of a remote and indifferent universe, a reproach to man's insignificance. Now man for the first time is challenging the planets themselves...
...beginning of the order to A.D. 644, when the Prophet Mohammed's son-in-law, Kalif Alee (whose name be praised!), founded a "vigilance committee" to dole out punishment for crimes not already covered by existing laws. The committee became a select group of noblemen, presumably above reproach and therefore demonstrably better than other men. They evolved elaborate rituals and ceremonies. As luck would have it, a copy of the ritual (in translation) wandered slowly across the vast Near Eastern deserts to America, where it fell, like manna from heaven (Mecca, anyway), into the hands of the first Imperial...
...result has been a series of books that are a reproach to most novelists. The Children of Sanchez, published in 1961, was ostensibly a recording of the lives as-told-by-themselves of a poor family living in a poor section of Mexico City. It proved to be richer in incident than many a historical romance, and more vividly squalid than many a sociological novel of the Chicago school...