Sentence examples for Seek expiation from inspiring English sources

2012's "The Forgiven" concerns a British couple who seek expiation after running over a local boy in the Moroccan desert; "Hunters in the Dark" (2014) deals with an English teacher cut adrift in Cambodia.

But seeking expiation, he takes the job and promptly applies all his tricks, arrogance and brio to serving the state.

It's a pilgrimage, and the expiation sought, the spiritual agenda, is "a ritual purpose: to exorcise the unthinking malignancy of the Dome, to celebrate the sprawl of London".

The Expiation.

There was a certain expiation.

Thus the need for explanation and expiation.

His work was one of expiation.

The novel was, among other things, a gesture of expiation.

"This was his act of expiation," Cherne concluded.

It was a remarkable exercise in expiation by indirection.

Notoriety gave him a forum for disingenuous expiation.