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- There was a flurry of finger-pointing and recriminations.
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Besides, he might come and begin a string of abuse or complainings; I'm certain I should recriminate, and God knows where we should end!
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recriminate = criticize back
- Tyler talked for a long time, moving through the events quickly but lingering in a wasteland of rationalization and self-recrimination.† (source)
- "Now, no recriminations," Lori told him.† (source)
- THE INSOMNIA THAT NIGHT WAS BEYOND ANYTHING EDGAR HAD experienced, a goblin presence in his room, goading him between self-recrimination one minute and white anger the next.† (source)
- It wasn't that I didn't want to, but going in there always ended with a plate of sausages and recriminations that I was too thin.† (source)
- Or so thought the Count with a touch of self-recrimination as he sat alone later that night in the hotel's bar with a snifter of brandy.† (source)
- But every now and then Nathan would disappear and we were left alone, sitting beside each other, the short distance between us jangling with unspoken recriminations.† (source)
- Nana always gave a slow, burdened smile here, one of lingering recrimination or reluctant forgiveness, Mariam could never tell It did not occur to young Mariam to ponder the unfairness of apologizing for the manner of her own birth.† (source)
- I said about our meetings and things and then you said shut up—" His voice lifted into the whine of virtuous recrimination.† (source)
- There would be no recriminations.† (source)
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- Even as the waves of shock and recrimination roll over the Capitol, the people there will be waiting, as I am now, to hear about the president.† (source)
- The question wasn't recriminatory.† (source)
- But I had expected a more or less angry recrimination in private when she discovered her status, and she never mentioned it.† (source)
- She had expected to discover his anger, to provoke the bitterness, the recriminations.† (source)
- The case provoked rounds of self-recrimination.† (source)
- Very early in the morning she had ordered the car to take her to the nearby seminary burial ground, which in those days was called La Manga Cemetery, and as she stood in front of his crypt, she made peace with her dead husband in a monologue in which she freely recounted all the just recriminations she had choked back.† (source)
- I'm waiting for her tirade, her recriminations, all the things I have coming.† (source)
- There had been recriminations of uselessness as we rode.† (source)
- Look, we don't have time for self-recriminations.† (source)
- If somebody'd of come in and took a look, men watching a blank TV, a fifty-year-old woman hollering and squealing at the back of their heads about discipline and order and recriminations, they'd of thought the whole bunch was crazy as loons.† (source)
- It would be six weeks before the news reached London, and on May 6, a storm of criticism and recrimination erupted in Parliament, led by the same ardent Whigs whose real power was no more than it had ever been.† (source)
- Standing there observing him, she suffered a bout of self-recrimination: It was her fault that he had come back to Prague from Zurich, her fault that he had left Prague, and even here she could not leave him in peace, torturing him with her secret suspicions while Karenin lay dying.† (source)
- No recriminations lay hidden under the plain statement, nor was there boasting when he said, "If I'm living a little better now, it's because I treats everybody right."† (source)
- Sometimes when he called her, fresh off the plane from Haiti, after a week or a month away, she'd picture herself his wife, uttering bitter recriminations.† (source)
- He seethed with self-recrimination as he hastened back as rapidly as he could stride along the splintered, irregularly spaced railroad ties.† (source)
- I had expected an explosion of recrimination and rejection and instead got a big hug.† (source)
- An added session of tears and recriminations with Mavis had sapped her energy.† (source)
- Twenty minutes ago their trap fell apart; there's got to be confusion, recriminations, accusations of incompetency, or worse.† (source)
- She could not hold his gaze; it reminded her too strongly of the guilt and recrimination that so often afflicted her when she was trying to fall asleep.† (source)
- Delinquencies, from whatever causes, produce complaints, recriminations, and quarrels.† (source)
- That was the only thing Washington was good at these days— recriminations and apportionment of blame.† (source)
- I could make little sense of it, except that the arguments were long and full of recriminations on both sides; but the traditional roles were reversed.† (source)
- Less guilt, less of a hangover, fewer recriminations-it is psychosomatic, you know — and the tax isn't that high.† (source)
- I ask that we stop refighting the battles and the recriminations of the past.† (source)
- His recriminations were terrible to hear.† (source)
- The government responsible collapsed completely in mutual recrimination a few weeks later.† (source)
- He didn't wait for recriminations, but got up quickly.† (source)
- THE RECRIMINATIONS BEGAN EVEN BEFORE the sun had risen.† (source)
- The reaction ranged from outrage to disbelief to smug recriminations.† (source)
- Recriminations and apportionment of blame: Washington's favorite pastime.† (source)
- There was no hidden reproach, no recrimination, in the way he had said this.† (source)
- What he gives in brains he takes away with phoney recriminations.† (source)
- And after that time had passed, I returned to my cycle of recriminations.† (source)
- Colonel Aureliano Buendia, in spite of the violent recriminations of Ursula, refused to commute the sentence.† (source)
- She left him, almost ran up the stairs, before everything could spill out, the stupid recriminations and accusations that would not solve anything but only muddy up whatever poor honesty they had been able to manage.† (source)
- As such, what was most likely to ensue was a scrum for the head, animated by accusations, recriminations, fisticuffs, and possibly gunfire.† (source)
- After issuing a litany of self-recriminations, the Count took comfort that in all likelihood on the following morning his shoes would simply be returned by the Finns to the main desk, where they would be cast into the hotel's collection of unidentifiable misplaced possessions.† (source)
- Naturally, there would have to be a word or two of self-recrimination, but first he cursed Marina and the alleged pleasures of simple games.† (source)
- When the Bishop left the Count's bedroom, the Count was frozen in place by a torrent of emotions—by feelings of fury, incredulity, self-recrimination, and fear.† (source)
- A knock on the door drew him out of his self-recriminations; he got to his feet and went to answer it, expecting Isabelle to be there, wanting to either borrow something or complain about something.† (source)
- This leads to nearly terminal recriminations between Willard—described as having "a marvelous Princetonian tilt to his head, besides a considerable feline grace"—and the bereaved Ramona, "her slender lissomeness barely concealing the full voluptuous surge which lurked beneath."† (source)
- I had not raked up a single recrimination.† (source)
- He had feared some terrible scene of jealousy or recrimination.† (source)
- I am not reciting these facts for the purpose of recrimination.† (source)
- Surely, Peter, you don't want me to start some sort of recriminations?† (source)
- No good result can come from recrimination.† (source)
- There were hysterical scenes with her mother, recriminations, screams and slamming of doors.† (source)
- If I do not err, that will provoke a flood of recrimination.† (source)
- She had made no assault, no recrimination.† (source)
- Again there were hysterical recriminations, screams and slamming of doors.† (source)
- Suspicion and rumour and counter-recrimination had obscured the issue almost before it started.† (source)
- Blanche [as if to herself]; Crumble and fade and — regrets — recriminations ...'If you'd done this, it wouldn't 've cost me that!'† (source)
- He was determined to put the case baldly, without vain recrimination or excuse.† (source)
- What do these recriminations prove, Ana?† (source)
- Some way along the road he began a muttered monologue, protests and recriminations.† (source)
- Oh, Alexey Alexandrovitch, for heaven's sake, don't let us indulge in recriminations!† (source)
- But this led to a long recrimination upon a great many sore subjects, charges, and counter-charges.† (source)
- What avails recrimination over matters wholly past recall?† (source)
- Mutual recrimination passed between them: they parted in anger, and were never reconciled.† (source)
- that we were not in a place for recrimination, and that I besought her to hold her peace.† (source)
- By this time Ardalion Alexandrovitch was quite intoxicated, and he kept his companion listening while he discoursed eloquently and pathetically on subjects of all kinds, interspersed with torrents of recrimination against the members of his family.† (source)
- It was the first scene of open anger between the couple in their sad seven years together, and Ethan felt as if he had lost an irretrievable advantage in descending to the level of recrimination.† (source)
- And they left the tent together, this pot-bellied man and florid woman, in the antipathetic, recriminatory mood of the average husband and wife of Christendom.† (source)
- Then came a difficulty about a springboard, and soon three people were running backwards and forwards over the meadow, with orders and counter orders and recriminations and apologies.† (source)
- Mamma stayed all night in my room, and it seemed that she did not wish to mar by recrimination those hours, so different from anything that I had had a right to expect; for when Francoise (who guessed that something extraordinary must have happened when she saw Mamma sitting by my side, holding my hand and letting me cry unchecked) said to her: "But, Madame, what is little Master crying for?" she replied: "Why, Francoise, he doesn't know himself: it is his nerves.† (source)
- Frivolous conflicts multiplied throughout the Berghof, with recriminations exchanged right in front of the authorities, who attempted to arbitrate but could themselves lapse into bellowing abuse with frightful ease.† (source)
- Philip had found the brother's address only by reading the letter in which he refused a loan; but he shrugged his shoulders: there was no use in recrimination.† (source)
- The atmosphere of precautions and recriminations, and in the midst a human body growing more vivid because it was in pain; the end of that body in Hilton churchyard; the survival of something that suggested hope, vivid in its turn against life's workaday cheerfulness;—all these were lost to Helen, who only felt that a pleasant lady could now be pleasant no longer.† (source)
- When after ten minutes Leila showed signs of fatigue, or, to be more precise, of over-excitement—her rosy cheeks turned redder, her forget-me-not eyes took on an alarming gleam—and Sister Alfreda began to signal with admonishing glances, the cousins took their leave; Frau Gerngross accompanied them out into the hall, where she broke into self-recriminations that had an odd effect on Hans Castorp.† (source)
- D'Artagnan left the hotel instead of going up at once to Kitty's chamber, as she endeavored to persuade him to do—and that for two reasons: the first, because by this means he should escape reproaches, recriminations, and prayers; the second, because he was not sorry to have an opportunity of reading his own thoughts and endeavoring, if possible, to fathom those of this woman.† (source)
- She mingled her story with recriminations against Lheureux, to which the notary replied from time to time with some insignificant word.† (source)
- But this is no time for recrimination.† (source)
- A mile down the hill, on the edge of the pine-forest, two half-frozen men—one powerfully sick at intervals—were varying mutual recriminations with the most poignant abuse of the Babu, who seemed distraught with terror.† (source)
- Then he appealed to his mother, who consented to let him take a mortgage on her property, but with a great many recriminations against Emma; and in return for her sacrifice she asked for a shawl that had escaped the depredations of Felicite.† (source)
- But this was not the time for recrimination, so he assumed his most agreeable manner and said with a gracious smile,—"Excuse me, sir, but are they not going to give me any dinner?"† (source)
- "This is unprofitable and perilous recrimination," answered De Bracy; "suffice it to say, I know the morals of the Temple-Order, and I will not give thee the power of cheating me out of the fair prey for which I have run such risks."† (source)
- Angry quarrels and recriminations took place, and when they had been married nearly seven years, and were within a few weeks of the time when the brother's death would have adjusted all, she eloped with a younger man, and left him.'† (source)
- Then they began to have a few irascible words when it waxed hotter, both, needless to say, appealing to the listeners who followed the passage of arms with interest so long as they didn't indulge in recriminations and come to blows.† (source)
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indifferent of times,
We, enclosers of all continents, all castes, allowers of all theologies,
Compassionaters, perceivers, rapport of men,
We walk silent among disputes and assertions, but reject not the
disputers nor any thing that is asserted,
We hear the bawling and din, we are reach'd at by divisions,
jealousies, recriminations on every side,
They close peremptorily upon us to surround us, my comrade,
Yet we walk unheld, free, the whole earth over, journeying up and
down till we make our ineffaceable mark upon time and the diverse eras,
Till we saturate time and eras, that the men and women of races,
ages to come, may prove brethren and lovers as we are.† (source)
- What was this but recrimination?† (source)
- Delinquencies, from whatever causes, would be productive of complaints, recriminations, and quarrels.† (source)
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