Sentence examples for an absolution from inspiring English sources

But the scene was long and a little too pastorly, more like an absolution than a friendly photo op for the running mates' families.

Eugene O'Neill, playwright of souls in search of forgiveness, is given an absolution of sorts himself today, in the pages of a medical journal.

At the end of "Vultures," the intimate back-and-forth between Mr. Mayer and the guitarist David Ryan Harris, who is black — each with head bowed toward the other — played like an absolution, the night's most emotional moment.

The N.S.A. seems to have treated the international character of cell-phone networks, which cross borders, as an absolution of its responsibility not to spy on people in America, even if that's where both the phones and their users are.

"I didn't have time to think," he has said, over and over again — only to pull the trigger, and pull it three more times again — as if the absence of thought attached to that act, the power of the gun, was an absolution.

Either way, he writes, "something happened in Deraa," and it is not surprising "that someone enduring such a trauma might wish to adorn its memory with staggering violence, the kind of violence that offers an absolution of guilt by making all questions of will or resistance moot".

Instead of offering a sweeping absolution to a few people with money, presidents could offer limited solace to lots of people.

If (rho _{ab}) is negative with a large absolution value, objectives a and b are strongly conflicted.

The chemists have now been granted an unexpected absolution from their original syn problem.

Where whites find a facile absolution in this argument, black people find a simple solution to the miasma of racism, one rooted in the American ideals of self-reliance and determination.

A proper burial could not be arranged while Gaveston was still excommunicate, and it was not until 2 January 1315, after the King had secured a papal absolution for his favourite, that he could have his body buried in an elaborate ceremony at the Dominican priory at Langley.