self-castigation

None of these reporters had seen her tears or heard the self-castigation in her voice.

This brief indulgence in self-castigation felt good, but it didn't remove the primary problem.

Scott added his drop of reality to Kirk's cup of self-castigation.

The two had apologized for their escapade, profusely and with much self-castigation.

Fizz chirped, putting a firm end to his self-castigation.

When would Desdra come with her soup to break the monotony of his anxious self-castigation?

He felt none of that, but only self-castigation: bringing that Tabrizi had been his mistake.

"Why, you couldn't, darling," Ruth cried, alarmed at his self-castigation.

The very droop of his shoulders showed that his own self-castigation was more cruel than any she could give.

I took time out from that fruitless and indulgent self-castigation and did something unthinkable.

In his early life, he stressed the practice of fasting and self-castigation as the most effective means of repentance.

Self-castigation is applied by the repentant culprit to himself, for moral and/or religious reasons, notably as penance.

So does this self-indulgent self-castigation.

A sobering realization, once I got beyond the initial pinch of self-castigation for succumbing to such morbid recollection.

Leovinus had just reached that point of self-castigation at which he was really beginning to enjoy it, when he was rudely interrupted.

Caleb noticed ships arriving from three directions and welcomed the diversion from Fermassy's self-castigation.

He wrote to his wife that there were "weeks, months, years in fact, of silent desperation, self-castigation, shame, inner humiliation, reproach and uncomprehending questioning".

In this tiresomely moralizing book, George Stephanopoulos proves that self-castigation can be a device for avoiding self-examination.

The novel's weakness, though, is Kay herself, who doesn't elicit the pathos of, say, a wisecracking Lorrie Moore heroine: she's too given to self-castigation and self-analysis.

When the Jets returned from road games earlier this season, players said that the flights were marked by self-castigation and plenty of could haves, should haves and would haves.

Such an action was so much a part of her standard operating procedure that she supposed, in between self-castigation and listening to her Niall program, that she had automatically instigated it.

The body of Dowd's work as a columnist, and in particular the Flytrap pieces that won her the Pulitzer, is one of the most brilliant examples yet of boomer self-castigation.

And it isn't a capitulation to PC, or wet liberal self-castigation, to be embarrassed and alarmed at having cut half of the literary scene clean out of the picture without noticing.

No Confident Look for Chang Unlike Gilbert or Ivanisevic, both of whom waste precious energy in self-castigation, Chang does not like to let on that he's flustered, but his body language in this match was hardly confident.

Sabatini kept Navratilova pinned to the baseline and held serve for 5-3, and after Navratilova, amid a stream of self-castigation, held for 5-4, the ninth-ranked Argentine used a service winner to complete a set she'd begun with a pair of double faults.