They had perfected their team nagging to a level where they no longer had to confer and felt they would be wasting their talents if they only admonished their own children.
~ Thomm Quackenbush
She knew the power of bureaucracy well enough to be aware she had to sit and be admonished until this stranger felt she had expressed sufficient disappointment in a girl she would never have to see again.
Her mother admonished through closed lips, the sound a mother can make mean anything from pick up your socks to we are very disappointed you have murdered those orphans.
