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  • Ah, there’s the governess voice. All stern and disapproving. It makes me feel like a naughty schoolboy.

    Naughty   Voice   Feels  
    Lisa Kleypas (2010). “Married by Morning”, p.31, St. Martin's Press
  • I've hung out at dozens of playgrounds, bored out of my mind, with not even a look of comfort from disapproving mothers all around me. Either they think I'm a pedophile or a deadbeat dad. That's what I get for being a single dad - suspicious looks at the playground.

    Mother   Dad   Thinking  
    "Down to The Wire with Dominic West". Intervie with Sara Bliss, www.esquire.com. December 31, 2006.
  • I do not accept drinks from disapproving gentlemen.

  • There was Kir, red hair combed back and That Expression on his sharp face. Even his freckles looked serious. I'd given up wondering how a freckle-faced teenager could look so much like a disapproving granny.

  • Christopher heard a pair of women gossiping nearby, whispering in disapproving undertones. "... Ramsey was found flirting in a corner with a woman. They had to drag him away from her." "Who was it?" "His own wife." "Oh, dear.

  • It is a waste of time to dissipate one's moral zeal in disapproving of royal persons who have mistresses.

    Mistress   Waste   Royal  
  • That disapproving look was back in her eyes. Her teacher face. The one that could make you squirm from ten paces, even if you were innocent. And I hadn't been innocent for years.

    Teacher   Eye   Years  
    Laurell K. Hamilton (2011). “Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Collection 1-5”, p.870, Penguin
  • My heart rushes into the garden, joyfully tasting all the delights. But reason frowns, disapproving of the heart's bad manners.

    Heart   Garden   Delight  
  • People are either attracted to the unseemly or disapproving of it, or both; yet we try to sound superior to the unseemly by pretending to be amused by it or indifferent to it.

    People   Trying   Sound  
  • Disapproving and boycotting is the Quranic thing to do, whereas violence and threats are not.

    "Muslims vs. Cartoons: What To Do Against Blasphemy?" by Mustafa Akyol, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 14, 2011.
  • Why was the judgement of the disapproving so valuable? Who said that their good opinions tended to be any more rational than those of generally pleasant people?

    Shannon Hale (2013). “Austenland: A Novel”, p.112, A&C Black
  • I don’t mind the disapproving ones so much. It’s the tolerant ones I can’t stand, the ones who smile at Rose, who speak to her ever so slowly and gently. They don’t realize how very intelligent Rose really is. They’re just terrifically pleased with themselves. Look at me! they all but shout. See how broad-minded I am! How wonderfully progressive, how fantastically twentieth century!

    Intelligent   Rose   Mind  
    Franny Billingsley (2011). “Chime”, p.46, Penguin
  • I'll join you, sir. You'll need help finding your way about the estate."His lips tightened into a disapproving line. "Begging your pardon, Lady Rosalind, but I didn't have a nursemaid when I was three, so I certainly don't need one now. I'm perfectly capable of navigating an estate alone.""I'm sure you are - indeed, you demonstrated a remarkable proficiency for it last night, and in a strange house, too.

    Night   Nurse   House  
    Sabrina Jeffries (2009). “A Dangerous Love”, p.53, Mountaineers Books
  • So, tell me,” he whispers. “How fast did you climb those fourteen stories?” Thomas makes a disapproving sound in his throat, but I break into a grin. Storm’s past. Metias loves me again. “Six minutes,” I whisper back to my brother. “And forty-four seconds. How do you like that?” “That must be some sort of record. Not that, you know, you’re supposed to do it.

    Brother   Past   Storm  
    Beth Revis, Jessica Spotswood, Marie Lu, Ally Condie, Andrea Cremer (2012). “Breathless Reads Sampler”, p.74, Penguin
  • Hyacinth,” Lady Bridgerton said in a vaguely disapproving voice, “do try to speak in complete sentences.” Hyacinth looked at her mother with a surprised expression. “Biscuits. Are. Good.” She cocked her head to the side. “Noun. Verb. Adjective.” “Hyacinth.” “Noun. Verb. Adjective.” Colin said, wiping a crumb from his grinning face. “Sentence. Is. Correct.

  • I used to play Saturday night shows with different little groups. If I could get a show, I would do it. I used to do mad things - I used to go and do these shows and go on my knees and roll on the ground - when I was 15,16 years old. And my parents were extremely disapproving of it all. Because it was just not done. This was for very low-class people, remember. Rock & roll singers weren't educated people

    Night   Years   Class  
    Source: www.mickjagger.com
  • A public expectation, it has to be said, not of poetry as such but of political positions variously approvable by mutually disapproving groups.

    Seamus Heaney (2014). “Crediting Poetry: The Nobel Lecture”, p.11, Macmillan
  • The word itself has another color. It’s not a word with any resonance, although the e was once pronounced. There is only the bump now between b and l, the relief at the end, the whew. It hasn’t the sly turn which crimson takes halfway through, yellow’s deceptive jelly, or the rolled-down sound in brown. It hasn’t violet’s rapid sexual shudder or like a rough road the irregularity of ultramarine, the low puddle in mauve like a pancake covered in cream, the disapproving purse to pink, the assertive brevity of red, the whine of green.

    Yellow   Color   Green  
  • Adrian ordered a martini, earning disapproving looks from his father and me. "It's barely noon," said Nathan. "I know," said Adrian. "I'm surprised I held out that long too.

    Father   Long   Looks  
    Richelle Mead (2012). “The Golden Lily: A Bloodlines Novel”, p.117, Penguin
  • I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him.

  • It always seemed to me a bit pointless to disapprove of homosexuality. It's like disapproving of rain.

    Rain   Gay   Lgbt Pride  
    "UK Politics 'Your Family Matters Most'". The Sunday Times Interview, news.bbc.co.uk. November 15, 1998.
  • I'm not like a politician that goes around talking about family values. And I can't get fired from being a funny person because I did something that most people are disapproving of. I think people are just obsessed with this morality that people perceive as being the right and wrong way of doing stuff.

    Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. August 20, 2008.
  • A moral being is one who is capable of reflecting on his past actions and their motives - of approving of some and disapproving of others.

    Charles Darwin “Charles Darwin: An Anthology”, Transaction Publishers
  • We tell our children they're trapped like rats on a doomed, bankrupt, gangster-haunted planet with dwindling resources, with nothing to look forward to but rising sea levels and imminent mass extinctions, then raise a disapproving eyebrow when, in response, they dress in black, cut themselves with razors, starve themselves, gorge themselves, or kill one another.

  • She [my mother] was the force around which our world turned. My mother was propelled through the universe by the brute force of reason. She was the judge in all our arguments. One disapproving word from her was enough to send us off to hide in a corner, where we would cry and fantasize our own martyrdom. And yet. One kiss could restore us to princedom. Without her, our lives would dissolve into chaos.

  • Fine - I said huffily. - But I hope I'm at least allowed to fly around the corridors during lunch hour. Gabriel threw me a disapproving look. I waited for him to get my joke, but his eyes remained serious. I sighed. Much as I loved him, Gabriel could be totally lacking in any sense of humor.

    Eye   Lunch   Serious  
    Alexandra Adornetto (2011). “Halo: Number 1 in series”, p.16, Hachette UK
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