All 50 Uses of
reproach
in
War and Peace
- If you were not a father there would be nothing I could reproach you with," said Anna Pavlovna, looking up pensively.†
Chpt 1
- The latter, a fresh, rosy officer of the Guards, irreproachably washed, brushed, and buttoned, held his pipe in the middle of his mouth and with red lips gently inhaled the smoke, letting it escape from his handsome mouth in rings.†
Chpt 1
- "Oh!" said he with reproach and surprise, "this is absurd!†
Chpt 1
- Another time he interrupted, saying: "And will she soon be confined?" and shaking his head reproachfully said: "That's bad!†
Chpt 1
- "Know this, Masha: I can't reproach, have not reproached, and never shall reproach my wife with anything, and I cannot reproach myself with anything in regard to her; and that always will be so in whatever circumstances I may be placed.†
Chpt 1
- "Know this, Masha: I can't reproach, have not reproached, and never shall reproach my wife with anything, and I cannot reproach myself with anything in regard to her; and that always will be so in whatever circumstances I may be placed.†
Chpt 1
- "Know this, Masha: I can't reproach, have not reproached, and never shall reproach my wife with anything, and I cannot reproach myself with anything in regard to her; and that always will be so in whatever circumstances I may be placed.†
Chpt 1
- "Know this, Masha: I can't reproach, have not reproached, and never shall reproach my wife with anything, and I cannot reproach myself with anything in regard to her; and that always will be so in whatever circumstances I may be placed.†
Chpt 1
- Didn't I tell you, Michael Mitrich, that if it was said 'on the march' it meant in greatcoats?" said he reproachfully to the battalion commander.†
Chpt 2
- He just sends a ball and they think they'll all be killed," a sergeant was saying angrily and reproachfully.†
Chpt 2
- Yesterday's adjutant reproached him for not having stayed at the palace, and offered him his own house.†
Chpt 2
- "Now what does this mean, gentlemen?" said the staff officer, in the reproachful tone of a man who has repeated the same thing more than once.†
Chpt 2
- He spoke in the tone of entreaty and reproach that a carpenter uses to a gentleman who has picked up an ax: "We are used to it, but you, sir, will blister your hands."†
Chpt 2
- Interrupting one another, they all gave, and transmitted, orders as to how to proceed, reprimanding and reproaching him.†
Chpt 2
- "Didn't I tell you," she went on, turning reproachfully to Mademoiselle Bourienne, "Mary's is a face which such a coiffure does not suit in the least.†
Chpt 3
- It was the story of a girl who had been seduced, and to whom her poor mother (sa pauvre mere) appeared, and reproached her for yielding to a man without being married.†
Chpt 3
- This was quite true, but the count, the countess, and Natasha looked at her reproachfully.†
Chpt 3
- In the Emperor's suite all exchanged rapid looks that expressed dissatisfaction and reproach.†
Chpt 3
- Feeling himself in their power, he resolutely took the salver with both hands and looked sternly and reproachfully at the count who had presented it to him.†
Chpt 4
- She looked at him inquiringly and with childlike reproach.†
Chpt 4
- No one now loves virtue; it seems like a reproach to everyone.†
Chpt 4
- "And Mamma pressed her!" said Nicholas reproachfully.†
Chpt 4
- But, though she noticed it, she was herself in such high spirits at that moment, so far from sorrow, sadness, or self-reproach, that she purposely deceived herself as young people often do.†
Chpt 4
- For a long while after he had gone, Pierre did not go to bed or order horses but paced up and down the room, pondering over his vicious past, and with a rapturous sense of beginning anew pictured to himself the blissful, irreproachable, virtuous future that seemed to him so easy.†
Chpt 5
- But what was still stranger, though of this Prince Andrew said nothing to his sister, was that in the expression the sculptor had happened to give the angel's face, Prince Andrew read the same mild reproach he had read on the face of his dead wife: "Ah, why have you done this to me?"†
Chpt 5
- Worn out by sleeplessness and anxiety they threw their burden of sorrow on one another and reproached and disputed with each other.†
Chpt 5
- "Andrew, why didn't you warn me?" said the princess, with mild reproach, as she stood before her pilgrims like a hen before her chickens.†
Chpt 5
- Those who were conscious raised themselves or lifted their thin yellow faces, and all looked intently at Rostov with the same expression of hope, of relief, reproach, and envy of another's health.†
Chpt 5
- "Yes, yes, let us go," said Rostov hastily, and lowering his eyes and shrinking, he tried to pass unnoticed between the rows of reproachful envious eyes that were fixed upon him, and went out of the room.†
Chpt 5
- Austerlitz with the lofty heavens, his wife's dead reproachful face, Pierre at the ferry, that girl thrilled by the beauty of the night, and that night itself and the moon, and…. all this rushed suddenly to his mind.†
Chpt 6
- He left off visiting Helene and received reproachful notes from her every day, and yet he continued to spend whole days with the Rostovs.†
Chpt 6
- Natasha did not answer at once but only looked up with a smile that said reproachfully: "How can you ask such a question?"†
Chpt 6
- "Go…. go," said the mother, sadly and reproachfully, with a deep sigh, as her daughter ran away.†
Chpt 6
- As a young wife she was irreproachable; perhaps she could not have been so as a mother.†
Chpt 6
- And such a state of obligatory and irreproachable idleness is the lot of a whole class—the military.†
Chpt 7
- The chief attraction of military service has consisted and will consist in this compulsory and irreproachable idleness.†
Chpt 7
- "Very good?" said Natasha reproachfully, noticing her brother's tone.†
Chpt 7
- The father and mother did not speak of the matter to their son again, but a few days later the countess sent for Sonya and, with a cruelty neither of them expected, reproached her niece for trying to catch Nicholas and for ingratitude.†
Chpt 7
- And do you know the new way of courting?" said Pierre with an amused smile, evidently in that cheerful mood of good humored raillery for which he so often reproached himself in his diary.†
Chpt 8
- She held herself as erect, told everyone her opinion as candidly, loudly, and bluntly as ever, and her whole bearing seemed a reproach to others for any weakness, passion, or temptation—the possibility of which she did not admit.†
Chpt 8
- All he cared about was gaiety and women, and as according to his ideas there was nothing dishonorable in these tastes, and he was incapable of considering what the gratification of his tastes entailed for others, he honestly considered himself irreproachable, sincerely despised rogues and bad people, and with a tranquil conscience carried his head high.†
Chpt 8
- Till then he had reproached her in his heart and tried to despise her, but he now felt so sorry for her that there was no room in his soul for reproach.†
Chpt 8
- Till then he had reproached her in his heart and tried to despise her, but he now felt so sorry for her that there was no room in his soul for reproach.†
Chpt 8
- The people of the west moved eastwards to slay their fellow men, and by the law of coincidence thousands of minute causes fitted in and co-ordinated to produce that movement and war: reproaches for the nonobservance of the Continental System, the Duke of Oldenburg's wrongs, the movement of troops into Prussia—undertaken (as it seemed to Napoleon) only for the purpose of securing an armed peace, the French Emperor's love and habit of war coinciding with his people's inclinations,…†
Chpt 9
- He not only showed no sign of constraint or self-reproach on account of his outburst that morning, but, on the contrary, tried to reassure Balashev.†
Chpt 9
- Kutuzov, who was already weary of Bolkonski's activity which seemed to reproach his own idleness, very readily let him go and gave him a mission to Barclay de Tolly.†
Chpt 9
- During the first period of his service, hard as he tried and much as he reproached himself with cowardice, he had not been able to do this, but with time it had come of itself.†
Chpt 9
- Those who stood nearest him attended to him, unbuttoned his coat, seated him on the raised platform of the cannon, and reproached those others (whoever they might be) who had crushed him.†
Chpt 9
- The Emperor reproached the commanders in chief for every step they retired.†
Chpt 10
- Soon after the migration to the "warm rivers," in which he had taken part like the rest, Dron was made village Elder and overseer of Bogucharovo, and had since filled that post irreproachably for twenty-three years.†
Chpt 10
Definition:
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(reproach) a criticism; or to express criticism or disappointment -- especially where a relationship makes the disapproval result in disappointment or shameeditor's notes: The expression "beyond reproach" is often used to indicate that one must not only be careful to do everything right, but must be careful not to do anything that might make people suspect they did something wrong. For example, politicians often need to behave in a manner that is beyond reproach.
"Beyond reproach" can also suggest that something is perfect. More rarely, it can also be used to suggest that someone is too powerful or too well-connected to criticize.