He is asking for absolution and peace.
Asking for absolution, like in church".
But if the patient received anything short of what I have described, I should think that Mr. Levy would be on shaky ground in asking for absolution.
"The job pays eight times more than the general hospital," she said, emphasizing the "eight" as if asking for absolution, not so much from me as from her conscience.
This was his last ambition: after a lifetime of atheism, it was his plan, he wrote in his 1982 autobiography, "My Last Sigh," to shock his friends by having a priest appear and, to their horror, "make my confession, ask for absolution for my sins and receive unction.
As this anonymous figure has not asked for absolution, James is not bound to silence – unlike, say, Montgomery Clift in Hitchcock's I Confess (1953) – but having recognised the voice, James feels challenged to resolve this man's agony without naming him to the authorities or the audience.
"I had Mike Smith on Drefong … and his agent says, what do you want me to do here?" The agent was asking for absolution to move Smith from Baffert's horse to the favored and older Masochistic.
After Becket landed in England the three excommunicates went to Becket and asked for absolution, but while Becket was willing to absolve Gilbert and Josceline, he insisted that only the pope could absolve an archbishop.
Oscar Bettison: I wanted to set this big immovable object in the middle of the piece -- it ended up being the fourth movement... in the song "O Death" the idea of the character pleading with the figure of death not to take him away so soon, it's not so different from certain things in the Requiem Mass, although in that sense people are asking for absolution or something like that.
He announced his joy of returning to the Catholic faith, asked for and received sacramental absolution, and participated in the mass.
