Other industry observers point to the changing nature of romance — less intimacy combined with the greater license to comment on a partner's personal habits — as, pardon the pun, a disincentive.
"This is extraordinary," said Margaret Colgate Love, who served as pardon attorney at the Justice Department in the 1990s.
In one speech he brought the house down when he introduced his party's Armenian candidate, Garo Paylan, as "pardon my French".
These include the appointment of a clean and competent cabinet, action against high-ranking officials accused of corruption, and avoiding previous mis-steps, such as pardoning drug traffickers.
And then right through the quick, into what Wittgenstein memorably defined as (pardon my crude translation from the German) "that which exhausts, of itself, the will to speak": "He picked up his instrument.
This is made clear in Webster's Third New International Dictionary (1986) definition of condonation as "pardon of an offense; voluntary overlooking or implied forgiveness of an offense by treating the offender as if it had not been committed".
Instead, Digeser seeks to divest political forgiveness of any personal feelings whatsoever in favor of a performative account in which such overt behaviors as pardoning a criminal or waiving a debt signify forgiveness.
Neither the standard definition of forgiveness nor the many philosophical accounts of it attempt to carefully distinguish between forgiveness and the various cognates often associated with it, such as pardoning, excusing, and tolerating or otherwise endorsing wrongs.
On the other hand, if the original litigant was treated less favourably than they deserved then again that mistake should be corrected if it can be (e.g. by appeal, or, if that is too late, by remedial legislation or by executive action such as pardon or ex gratia payments), but it is no reason for treating a later litigant unfavourably as well.
