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If anything, reports that have recriminating titles, have texts that praise the valour of the troops that kill menacing terrorists.

But instead of battling the negative and recriminating emotions that naturally follow any such event, this one private school is tackling the issue head-on in a proactive and positive manner.

(For Bernhard, this pathology of writing and revision also allegorizes a crisis of collective psyche, the recriminating self-examination of national consciousness in postwar Austria.) Further, the composition and correction (or annihilation) of the journal assimilate themselves to the narrator's own account of reading the manuscript and, by extension, to Bernhard's composition--his writing and rewriting--of the novel that contains it.

Full marks to the Aussies who, instead of whinging and recriminating (something we Brits do far too often), got stuck in and regained their self-respect in the best possible way: by achieving a knockout win.

The passion and newness of that affair--Ben's first--had been so swiftly overrun by the unwanted pregnancy that there had hardly been time to enjoy any part of it, what with all the recriminating and apologizing and recriminating that went on.

While the narrator does not pretend to have felt positively about the librarian, she acknowledges the recriminating guilt she later felt (and for which she did not have words at the time) for participating in the discrimination enacted by her peers and principal.

Vivian's second doctrine--"All bad art comes from returning to life and nature, and elevating them into ideals" ("DL" 55)--likewise finds earlier (and much more recriminating) expression in "Poetic Morality." In fact, the vehemence with which Baldwin denounces the artists he regards as "naturalistic pigs" who "spiritualize the merely animal" by writing of "Nature herself" makes Lee's endorsement of this doctrine difficult to forget ("DPM" 701, 702).

The passiveness and the silences are revealed in the recriminating remarks of the narrator, who addresses Petra in terms such as: "Si, so loving of 'mi raza' here, and 'mi raza' there, as if it was a samba, samba ...