expostulation

His expostulations broke through, and Iowa began whittling — then bludgeoning — its way into the lead.

And are we tacitly meant to regard the poetry-loving Don Diego, with his dainty handkerchiefs and repeated expostulations about “these turbulent times,” as an effeminate gay man?

Pacific time on Fox’s over-the-air network, a variety of expostulations were registered as loudly for this arrangement as they once were for the Video Assistant Referee system.

For most Americans, President Trump’s expostulations are audible wallpaper, always there but not really noticed.

At dinner, an old man burst out yelling in his tongue; the object of these expostulations being one of Bono’s friends, Charles.