What's the difference between scolding and virago?

Scolding


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Scold
  • () a. & n. from Scold, v.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A previous trial into the safety and feasibility of using bone marrow stem cells to treat MS, led by Neil Scolding, a clinical neuroscientist at Bristol University, was deemed a success last year.
  • (2) But Britain, under Tony Blair, proved the equivalent of a disappointing parent, quick to scold and unwilling to listen.
  • (3) He recalled an incident at a Packers game a few years ago, when he stood up and vocally scolded a fan behind him who had called a Chicago Bears player a faggot.
  • (4) In 2012, despite the London Whale losses of around $6bn weighing on the bank, it again turned in record – even “triumphant” – profits of $24bn, although Dimon’s pay was halved to around $11m as a scold for the scandal.
  • (5) 'Maedchen One would never have wet on the floor like that,' my father would scold.
  • (6) "Here in the Vatican they scold me for being undisciplined but you can see what country I come from," he said – alluding, according to Ansa, to the scrum formed by the Argentinian players while the Italians formed a queue.
  • (7) Three years ago, Netanyahu was humiliated by Barack Obama with a public scolding to stop settlement expansion .
  • (8) Like Blair, he will be scolded for it by many activists.
  • (9) A senior policeman later referred to the scenes in some of its supermarkets as akin to a mini riot and scolded senior executives , arguing the force’s “scarce resources should not be used to bail out stores when they’ve not planned effectively”.
  • (10) Bernie Sanders, with the presidential gravitas of a toddler, first attempted to shout his usual stump speech over the protestors, and then scolded them for interrupting him and held what one could only describe as a mini public tantrum.
  • (11) Here's what Fiona Scolding, barrister at Hardwicke chambers, has to say.
  • (12) After being scolded by them for meeting the Dalai Lama in 2012, David Cameron vowed to “ turn the page ” and never repeat the mistake.
  • (13) Heading to their crowded dormitory after a night shift, several workers said pressure and the frequent scolding by management might be factors.
  • (14) Breaks are not breaks, they are allocated times in which we are allowed to be human, to smoke a cigarette, to wolf down a dry sandwich that at £1.25 feels expensive, to use the bathroom and still be scolded for being three minutes late.
  • (15) Fallen Muslim American soldier's father scolds Trump: 'have you even read the constitution?'
  • (16) One bearded man scolded his friends for speaking to the foreign press; others seemed to relish the attention, presenting themselves for detailed interviews about their brushes with the neighbour they never knew.
  • (17) Once or twice a week, without fail, the Restor children would gather around a laptop as Marilyn’s pixelated face appeared on Skype, scolding them about their homework and listening to their test results and friendship woes.
  • (18) "You're not what I think a woman should be," he scolds her, adding: "I don't like the way you look, sound or move."
  • (19) At one point, I fidget with my glasses so as to read the programme – Chloe swings round and throws me a stinging glance of reproach, like a seasoned concert-goer scolding a child – rather than the other way round.
  • (20) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Louis van Gaal: Manchester United not at best against Chelsea – link to video Van Gaal was notably unenthused about his team’s performance, bemused to hear them being praised on television, and revealing that he had scolded his players because “normally you have to play your best against the best teams”.

Virago


Definition:

  • (n.) A woman of extraordinary stature, strength, and courage; a woman who has the robust body and masculine mind of a man; a female warrior.
  • (n.) Hence, a mannish woman; a bold, turbulent woman; a termagant; a vixen.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The publisher's first move into the UK market came in 1987 with the acquisition of Chatto, Virago, Bodley Head and Jonathan Cape, and later with the purchase of Century Hutchinson and the trade division of Reed Books.
  • (2) And if not everyone agrees with her, or approves of Virago, or wants to be published by a women-only imprint, so much the better: "The last thing you want to be is a flat old thing that everybody loves, like a big teddy bear.
  • (3) According to Lennie Goodings, publisher of Virago, the suggestion that in 1857 "bad girls, smut and perversion were essentially invented in the eyes of the law is both a fascinating story and, crucially, an important way of understanding how we arrived at our ideas of normalcy and deviancy – ideas which are with us to this day".
  • (4) Thorn's first book – a memoir called Bedsit Disco Queen: How I Grew Up and Tried to Be a Pop Star – will be published by Virago next February.
  • (5) Goodings, who joined five years later, calls herself "a second-generation Virago" but she was there early enough for it to feel like a start-up: "We were at 5 Wardour Street, five flights up a dusty staircase in one room.
  • (6) Mad, Bad and Sad: A History of Women and the Mind Doctors from 1800 to the Present is published by Virago Kate Moses Photograph: PR When I think of The Bell Jar , I do not think first of the story of Esther Greenwood's harrowing entrapment in the suffocating air of her own madness.
  • (7) Sarah Waters's latest book is The Little Stranger, published by Virago
  • (8) Spare Rib is a brand actually, isn't it, in the sense Virago is a brand?
  • (9) She recalls one lunch with a literary editor of the Times who "got there and said [she puts on a patrician drawl]: 'I told all the girls in the office I'm going out with a Virago today!'
  • (10) It was Taylor's ability to get into the skin of the character, more than the padding and a tousled salt-and-pepper wig, which transformed the legendary beauty into a blowsy virago.
  • (11) Virago is 40: A Celebration brings together new writing by authors including Margaret Atwood and Sarah Waters , on the subject of 40.
  • (12) It's only slowly, and in recent years, that the voice of the mother has come out – the odd middlebrow novel of the kind Virago and Persephone rescue ( EM Delafield or Dorothy Whipple ) and more recently Margaret Drabble , Julie Myerson , Rachel Cusk .
  • (13) The Haunting of Sylvia Plath by Jacqueline Rose is published by Virago Lionel Shriver Photograph: Rolph Gobits I read The Bell Jar as an adolescent, and like most teenagers had no problem identifying with a young woman who had everything going for her – looks, talent, opportunity, with her "whole life ahead of her," yadda, yadda, yadda – yet was spiralling into misery.
  • (14) Virago has made a profit every year since it was set up ("a healthy profit", Goodings adds, though she won't say how much on an annual turnover that averages around £3.5m), and she is proud of this.
  • (15) This is, I fully admit, a pretty odd kind of nostalgia, and the person I blame for it mostly is Katharine Whitehorn, whose Cooking in a Bedsitter, first published in 1961, in print and regularly updated for the next 40 years, and now triumphantly reissued in all its original greasy and hardscrabble glory by Virago (I just wish they had made the cover wipe-clean), fuelled it for many years.
  • (16) Few insiders feel News Corp was a serious contender to take over Penguin, as reported at the weekend, but Hachette, which has Little, Brown and Virago under its wing, is rumoured to be in buying mood and unlikely to settle for a place in the second division.
  • (17) Like Spare Rib, Virago referenced the Garden of Eden with a logo of an apple with a chunk bitten out of it: tree of knowledge, here we come.
  • (18) Virago is 40: A Celebration is available as a free ebook at virago.co.uk
  • (19) "I'm not going to feel defensive about Virago until the Today programme changes," she says, referring to the fact that just 18% of contributors to the flagship news show are female.
  • (20) Prized novelists include Waters and Sarah Dunant – authors of Virago's two top‑selling titles last year – and Marilynne Robinson, who won the Orange prize for Home in 2009, a moment Goodings cites as a career highlight.