Примери за chasten

• To begin, he identifies examples in which civil authorities chasten religious leaders.

• By the 1840s, most had been chastened by experience despite optimistic speechifying and frequent modification.

• He derided authority, mocking it, chastening it, and inviting us to laugh at our own reverence for it and for the author himself.

• This reduced the justifiable use of ornament as embellishment, at least chastening its application.

• The effect is chastening, if beyond desirable remedy.

• It is a chastening reminder of just how school knowledge is circumscribed and censored to remain within certain unsaid but mutually understood boundaries.

• It is certainly plausible that, in many instances, being the object of a ' sacrificial measure ' of kindness may be no less spiritually therapeutic than undergoing a chastening bout of suffering.

• Arthur, after years of illness and exile, has returned, chastened and reduced.

• They seem to have been chastened by the events of the election year, just as they accused us of having been chastened.

• The chastened tenor of his speech revealed him in an entirely new light.

• The idea that a young man leaves prison chastened and repentant is all too often a romantic myth.

• It is chastening for them, and has shown real results.

• He disappeared, chastened, after my brief conversation with him.

• I came away greatly chastened and far less critical.

• I stand corrected and suitably chastened.