| It is absurd to indict a whole people or to banish a whole people to some historical purgatory where they can expiate their sins. |
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| Like a zealot who demands a public flagellation to expiate his sin, Martin's thirst for punishment grows until his mental health is in doubt. |
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| This is not simply the story of a gentle, deluded old man whose attempts to expiate his guilt were poorly judged. |
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| Abby and Scott sublimate their guilt while Buddy tries to expiate his through a material gift. |
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| Those who act thus show how far they are from comprehending God, and how much they still have to expiate. |
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| The greater sinfulness of man is why Christ was born a man: to expiate the sin of the first man. |
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| This is promoted by a system of rituals which reinvoke and celebrate the original passions of the primal crime, designed to expiate feelings of guilt. |
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| These are autumnal deaths to expiate the sins of a people and appease the heavens so summer might return. |
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| Deleuze maintains that the father's punishing superego and genital sexuality are symbolically punished in the son, who must expiate his likeness to the father. |
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| The professor sees in his pupil a chance to expiate past sins. |
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| Can it, as the prophets suggest, expiate our sins and bring us closer to God? |
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| If you got involved in some crime and you had to expiate your sins, you didn't go to the local courts, you went to the local priest and you made an appropriate offering. |
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| A Eucharistic soul is necessarily always a priestly soul, especially if the person is consumed with desires to expiate and to sacrifice. |
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| He chooses those which may serve to expiate faults, and at the same time help him to advance more quickly. |
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| It was wrong for me to try to expiate or try to cooperate in paying the price of my sin. |
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| In so many different ways, with different stories of God's mercy from the Old and New Testament, they urge us to amend our lives, detest our sins and expiate them by prayer and penance. |
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| Parashurama is the traditional founder of Malabar and is said to have bestowed land there on members of the priestly class whom he brought down from the north in order to expiate his slaughter of the Kshatriyas. |
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| Having felt guilty that the barriers of race and caste had prevented his mingling with the Burmese, he thought he could expiate some of his guilt by immersing himself in the life of the poor and outcast people of Europe. |
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| It is clear as the case proceeds that foregone conclusions riddled with holes have been reached in a bid to conceal and expiate the real culprits. |
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| This parishioner of La Vinzelle gave it to expiate his sins. |
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| In 1954, 80,000 Romanian-Germans were loaded into cattle cars and deported to Soviet work camps, where they were kept like working animals for five years to expiate Romania's allegiance to National Socialism. |
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| He received lavish donations from the wealthy families of Rome, who, following his own example, were eager, by doing so, to expiate their sins. |
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| And we all have, in our own countries, things we must expiate. |
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| Experience proves that imperfect spirits follow up their vengeance from one existence to another, and that we are thus made to expiate sooner or later, the wrongs we may have done to others. |
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| I am going out to expiate a great wrong, Paul. A very necessary feature of the expiation is the marksmanship of my opponent. |
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| He had only to live and expiate in solitude the crimes which he had committed. |
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| Neither let there be found among you any one that shall expiate his son or daughter, making them to pass through the fire. |
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| To expiate my past sins, I will accuse myself of them courageously, and will not leave one unbanished from my heart. |
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