| If the wrongdoer has come to the point of realizing his wrong, then one hopes there will be remorse, or at least some contrition or sorrow. |
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| I can be quite hard and cruel sometimes, I know that, but I do feel contrition and try to make amends. |
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| Participation in these gatherings is simply not consonant with the depression and contrition that the mourner experiences. |
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| We should avoid, however, acts of apparent contrition that are, in fact, acts of detraction against our forebears in the faith. |
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| His contrition and his guilt do not help to free him from his bondage, though. |
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| A variation on this theme was that the prisoner had reformed or had shown sufficient contrition for their crime. |
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| Lincoln regularly used the language of scripture, but in a way that called both sides in the Civil War to contrition and repentance. |
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| The never-ending show of contrition, pathos, sadness and regret is more than reality drama. |
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| The offender may not demonstrate genuine, or even adequate, contrition or repentance. |
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| What if contrition is self-centered and selfish, aimed at securing forgiveness? |
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| When did liturgies of contrition and dependence become examples of negative thinking? |
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| The goalie retreated, with head bowed in contrition, as the ref showed him the yellow card. |
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| Such prisoners will probably not express contrition or remorse or sympathy for any victim. |
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| Moreover, contrition must be continual, and a man must keep and hold a steadfast purpose to shrive himself and to amend his way of life. |
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| From there can develop a real prayer of contrition, of repentance-with a little broken-heartedness and quite a lot of healthy shame. |
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| This process involves confession to a priest, acts of contrition, receiving absolution, and performing works of satisfaction. |
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| All that acknowledging and bewailing of the manifold sins of wickedness made this extended act of contrition a bit of a downer. |
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| Those advisers who urged on him an expression of contrition as a way of finding closure met with a blank refusal. |
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| Sadly, decency has been replaced in great measure by coarseness hence the absence of remorse or contrition. |
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| Is it an appropriate act of contrition, a lack of spine or justified terror? |
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| That is what I did with much humility and a perfect contrition, for it had been a very long time since I had done so. |
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| A double killer had shown no remorse or contrition for murdering two drug dealers in his home, a judge said yesterday as he imposed concurrent life sentences. |
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| If someone steals my pen and then asks me to forgive him, unless he returns my pen the sincerity of his contrition and confession will be considered to be nil. |
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| Listen to it with attention for I am going to repeat it to you many times as an answer to the contrition of your sins. |
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| Strengthened by this conviction, David sets off on the path of genuine repentance, and he bequeaths to us his prayer of contrition. |
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| Dear young people, have the courage of contrition, and also the courage to seek God's grace in sacramental confession. |
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| In other areas, however, such public contrition has been sadly lacking. |
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| And to this request from Him, once again I answered to Him uniquely by the contrition of my sins. |
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| He flunked the contrition test, retracting only his word choice and larding the statement with attacks on the left. |
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| Their success seemed to depend on their intensity, and their intensity depended on the rhetorical ability of the preacher to inspire a sense of contrition for past offenses. |
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| Christie ended up settling and publishing a letter of contrition in the newspapers. |
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| Cheap grace is the preaching of forgiveness without requiring repentance, baptism without Church discipline, Communion without confession, absolution without contrition. |
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| Still, given the disaster her earlier attempts at contrition were, this appearance seems to have done wonders for her. |
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| Scalise offered his contrition that he had made a mistake and apologized for appearing before a group some 12 years ago. |
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| The People: The people went through two experiences, one of disbelief and misjudgment, the other of confession and contrition. |
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| Musharraf was still posting updates on Facebook and not showing the contrition expected of a man in his position. |
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| When Dickey replied sternly to this attack, though, Wright collapsed into contrition and self-reproach. |
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| The image that may well linger in the public mind is not of contrition, but of braggadocio in the face of a net that is inexorably closing in. |
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| This award demonstrates the importance arbitrators attach to a grievor's sincere understanding and contrition regarding the dishonest behaviour. |
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| Should I be thinking of a perfect act of contrition? |
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| Thus a serenity and honesty about the grievousness and intolerable burden of sin are characteristic of contrition that are not characteristic of a plain feeling of guilt. |
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| The penitent recites an act of contrition. |
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| As an affirmed nationalist, he may be the Japanese politician best able to blend contrition about the past with forthrightness about present-day issues. |
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| The Circle places responsibility upon offenders to accept in a full and public manner responsibility for their actions, to express their remorse, to apologize and to demonstrate their contrition in a practical manner. |
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| I always need prayers in order to obtain the tears of contrition for my sins, in order to learn to love the Cross I must carry, and of course in order to obtain the grace of final perseverance! |
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| The act of contrition sometimes comes wrapped in self-congratulation. |
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| Or maybe Scott will wear the Cleo headdress in a spirit of contrition? |
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| But it raises the issue of how we should mark the landscapes and legacies of coal that have been buried by both the political traumas of the miners strike and our contemporary contrition over climate change. |
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| The figures with raised arms always symbolized a prayer to Amma for the rain that gives essential to all life, and it could also be a gesture of contrition after the violation of a ritual law has caused the drought. |
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| As the arbitrator noted, even where frankness and contrition are first displayed at arbitration, this could make the difference in determining whether or not to reinstate the grievor. |
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| When one of their own members is accused, there should be no contrition. |
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| A robust civil society and media enjoy unprecedented freedom in carrying out their watchdog function, while a Truth and Reconciliation Commission has begun its work in fostering the processes of contrition and forgiveness. |
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| Every once in a while we may experience the grace of true contrition and sorrow for our sins, when we see, as it were, some extent of the damage we have done. |
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