hector

Some scenes are so natural as to seem improvised; others employ heavy tactics — an assaultive sound design, flash cuts — to evoke the pressure Amanda is under, from both the self-satisfied authorities and a hectoring press.

It won’t surprise you to learn that Hailey prefers to call her kids “soldiers” and hectors them to obey her rules from 4:30 a.m. until bedtime.

More effective than a hectoring thread on social media is making something new, something funny.

We transparently did not do enough, and that goes a long way back; it wasn’t about holding more white-dude Zooms for Kamala or hectoring your neighbors about inflation not being real.

Like many of Harris’ media appearances, those events assured the former president steered well away from hectoring hosts and their inconvenient fact-checking.