Sentences with phrase «stern lecture»

It's heating up leftovers at 5:37 p.m. on Thursdays, it's organizing closets on Saturday afternoons at 1:28 p.m. after the morning's dentist appointments followed by stern lectures about flossing, too.

Especially among 18 - to - 29 year olds, Bible reading has come to feel like homework, associated with «right» interpretations and «wrong ones,» and accompanied by stern lectures from the pulpit.

However, it's known that Daly had received stern lectures and written reprimands from Beman, who, like others in the sport, had become increasingly concerned about Daly's conduct.

So if the child's «transgression» is followed by punishment — or even stern lecturing that makes the child feel like a bad person, especially if this is a repeated experience — the child will grow up with what Brene Brown, the leading US expert on shame, calls «toxic shame.»

«No...» So Wangerin marched his son to the library and made him apologize to the librarian, who delivered a stern lecture about stealing.

And after the events of today, I would not at all be surprised if the police show up at our house to give her a stern lecture.

I remember when I was researching the first flop, I came across Gesine's (the recipe author's) web site, where she happened to be giving a polite but stern lecture to others with the same question, about the importance of using her recommended ingredients.

While there was never any public apology, Yuri got a stern lecture from his daughter and sat on the camouflage hoodie the rest of the tournament.

He is probably also the only kiteboarder to get stranded on the rocks inside San Quentin State Prison's boundaries in Marin County, Calif. (He was briefly detained and, after a stern lecture by a burly guard, released.)

But giving a stern lecture as additional consequences isn't helpful.

Is it time for a stern lecture or a time - out?

And no, I'm going to try hard and not turn this ironically into a stern lecture on how NOT to make a movie (though I could).

When his father catches word of this, Seth gets a stern lecture and when a couple of guys from a nearby brokerage make him an offer to join them, Seth sees this as a way to finally get a legitimate job and put a smile on dear old dad's face.

Autonomous autos could go one step further and give the driver a ride home (and perhaps a stern lecture to boot).

She hung up the phone, came to our house, and delivered a stern lecture to me about my «unacceptable» performance.

Speaker Corcoran's stern lecture to House members about his commitment to accountability and transparency stands in sharp contrast to the way he and Senate President Negron negotiated the entire budget shrouded in in secrecy.

My first job interview — for a secretarial position with the electrical utility serving the central Oregon coast — ended with a stern lecture about the fact that big - city, East Coast ways would not be tolerated here.

Rosalind Cottingham recalls how one landlord got a stern lecture from an LTB adjudicator after complaining that she was losing wages in order to appear at the hearing.

When was the last time you went to the doctor for a check up and received a stern lecture about laying off those salads or cutting back on your fruits and vegetables?

Suddenly John ends up with a tied up zombie Jack and Abigal in his room and he's off to go save the day from this zombie infestation, but not before giving Jack and Abigal a stern lecture about chewing the face off of people.

As 2006 draws to a close, several shows turn that theme of naughty and nice into a stern lecture, even as the artists eat up every moment of degraded pleasure.

While it has come to mean a style or a movement — especially in Modernism, when movements mattered — Paris and New York still have a way of offering one another a stern lecture.

All this sounds like a stern lecture in structural linguistics, but leaving the options open keeps the work at a remove from its own apparent formalism.

And that's totally understandable — these fools deserve a stern lecture, to put it nicely.

«The justices of the peace are giving that person a stern lecture as well as the fine,» she says.

I'll bet her speech was a balanced and diverse range of ideas too (but if she were my student she wouldn't escape a stern lecture at lunch time on plagiarism!)