Sentence examples for a note of repentance from inspiring English sources

In deference to the public mood, the festivities were reduced in scale, and a note of repentance was added to a dignified cathedral service.

Several younger speakers urged that the statement had to include a tone of repentance for complicity in racism and sexism.

A note of humility?

Some have accused the park officials of mixing up Jewish holidays, noting that on Rosh Hashana, a holiday of repentance, Jews on the first day do sprinkle bread crumbs into running water as a symbolic casting off of sins.

Black was a sign of repentance.

He does, and the act drives him to a life of repentance.

The DUP leader demanded that IRA volunteers wear "sackcloth and ashes" as a sign of repentance.

Subjecting themselves to ugliness is a form of repentance for his characters.

Three years ago, the Christian activist Symon Hill embarked on a pilgrimage of repentance for his former homophobia.

The IDF's official Twitter account described Yom Kippur as a "time of repentance and soul-searching".

For Japan's neighbours its veneration has come to symbolise a lack of repentance for wartime aggression.