self-castigation

She does try to pre-empt unsympathetic reader reactions, but also pulls off the tricky balancing act of avoiding either self-justification or self-castigation.

“It is time for the remaining Never Trumpers to apologize for a reason far more important than self-castigation or merely to make things ‘right.’

Reflecting on this controversy need not lead only to self-castigation.

He calls Peggy for an ominous goodbye/self-castigation session: “I broke all my vows. I scandalized my child. Took another man’s name. And made nothing of it.”

Let not the rewards of heaven be made the price of trifling religious operations, which convey a diminutive idea of the Eternal and a false conception of virtue; its rewards should never be assigned to fasting, haircloth, a blind submission, and self-castigation.