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How to use chastening in a sentence

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For a professional explorer to stumble upon such uncharted territory can be very chastening.
After a week of exhaustive shuttle diplomacy, taking in Ireland, Spain and Libya, Blair's two-day stay in Brussels was a chastening experience.
The most chastening passage in the book concerns a woman called Lisl Auman.
But it will take judgment, chastening, burning sin out, to get the church back where it ought to be.
It must be chastening for Australia's leaders that their squabbles seem irrelevant.
Selling his city abroad was chastening, the mayor says: most Chinese had never heard of it.
Then, too, opposition tends to focus the marginalized mind, undistracted as it is by the chastening realities of power.
The chastening effect of defeat in the war seems so far to be having desirable results.
Merely reading the published lists is at once enlightening, bewildering, and a chastening reminder of how much we all have still to learn.
This chastening experience has challenged many preconceptions about the functioning of modern economies and about globalization.
My son, despise not you the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when you are rebuked of Him.
The entire experience was frightening and chastening for the bourgeoisie.
They will be better for the chastening experience.
It is a chastening thought that medical overprescription of benzodiazepines, resulting in their presence in many households, made them easily available and undoubtedly aided their entry into the illicit drug scene.
One of those Mr Ménard accused was a Qatari, whom he fired. Even in a Gulf autocracy as relatively liberal as Qatar's, publicly chastening a high official can be rash.
That stopped him from doing much that he wanted. It has been chastening for Ms Rousseff and her party to have been checked in their triumphal progress towards an inherited presidency.
In the review in Calgary of the state of health ethics services, some of the comments from the public were chastening, telling us it is immoral to spend money on bioethics when there are many pressing health care needs.
For many other Europeans, this experience has been chastening.
Examples from Classical Literature
But I will not longer dwell on madagascan peculiarities, many of which, as elsewhere, are not chastening.
I know also, that it was well I could not shield thee from this chastening of His love.
No sight of evil, no preaching, no example, no chastening can produce the result.
The Indian submits with resignation to the chastening will of the Great Spirit.
I should rejoice to see her passing through a discipline so chastening and exalting.
Yet tears had ever a chastening effect upon the third of the Madigans.
But God does not send the chastening in wrath, nor in justice.
The rod had been used to chasten, and he had bit the chastening fingers.
I remember,' said the gentleman, striking his nose with the knuckle of his forefinger as a chastening for his forgetfulness.
So much for my first move toward the chastening of my clients.
So he does not and I do, and I have to make up for it by not indulging all too riotously in new clothes, which is no doubt very chastening.
Whatever the Crown says, it will have been a chastening experience over the last few days, I'm sure everyone will agree with that.
Teimana Harrison went over for the Saints, but it was a chastening afternoon for the league leaders as they suffered just their third domestic loss of the campaign.
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