Chasteningly

Whenever large-scale sports projects are proposed, evangelists waffle about "intangible" benefits – so we must thank economists Dennis Coates and Brad Humphreys for producing some chasteningly tangible work on the subject. ❋ Marina Hyde (2010)

And at the end of a week when Victoria Pendleton has spoken of the discombobulating effects of next year's Olympics, the way London 2012 has made every intervening event appear mundane, Tweddle's enthusiasm for competition seems chasteningly undimmed. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Nobody likes being told off and Wenger is still the man who made English football feel so chasteningly juvenile when he emerged 15 years ago, single-handedly inventing pasta and stretching, and exposing decisively the myth that drinking lager and jumping up and down in a circle inside a night club called Starzz actually improve performance. ❋ Unknown (2011)

It seems chasteningly stupid now after my year of professional disaster, romantic idiocy, money angst, moments of soul-searching unhappiness and implausible amounts of time spent sweeping the kitchen floor. ❋ Unknown (2012)

John Gray informs us, chasteningly, that "Stage Five" of his multiple-stage dating program is vital, because it provides good memories that allow a couple to survive "the stress of marriage." ❋ Unknown (2002)

Even at the highest speed I could manage, it felt chasteningly underwhelming. ❋ Toby Litt (2010)

She was under a great deal of pressure to do so, as her erotic and emotional life was, during the later years of this volume, chasteningly unsatisfactory: both I. and I. 's predecessor H., with whom Sontag continued an affair in Paris, seemed to find it unavoidable (in Sontag's account, anyhow) to heap humiliations upon her in the form of repeated withdrawal of affection and approval, rebukes concerning her character and her lack of psychological acuity, and criticisms of her lovemaking. ❋ Eisenberg, Deborah (2008)