Your pimples are the Lord's way of chastising you. Now eat your pie. Votes: 0
The love of Americans for their country is not an indulgent, it is an exacting and chastising love; they cannot tolerate its defects. Votes: 0
Over the years, I've worried that my directness could come off as brusque or my criticisms heard in an outsize way, especially by male colleagues. I sometimes wondered whether expressing even my mildest reservation reminded someone of a chastising mother or complaining wife.