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be repentant

adjective

Feeling or showing sorrow for wrongdoing.

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Now he not only has to be repentant but also has to be able to actually show this repentance.

It's a cycle of emptiness in which the media pretends to be horrified, the public pretends to be outraged and the celebrity pretends to be repentant.

But when I asked Roberto Escobar whether he felt repentant for his crimes he said no. "It's not important to be repentant," he said.

The Holy Roman Emperor Charles V, who had plenty to be repentant about, did just that, passing his crown to his son and living the rest of his life in a mon-astery in Estremadura.

He called one Democrat "that creature" and denounced some of Mr. Reagan's Congressional opponents as that "tribe of pygmies up on the Hill". What was wrong - and forget now that it's still unclear what, if any, law was broken - was that Miss Stahl wanted Mr. Buchanan to be repentant.

Al Zarooni continued to be repentant after hearing of his punishment, saying: "I apologise to Sheikh Mohammed and all those at Godolphin, and the public who follow racing.

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He is repentant about his meddling.

If Ratzinger was repentant, he would surely have congratulated them.

If he is repentant, he meets the qualification of membership.

The man who once vowed he would use former soap stars above all others is repentant.

Mota was repentant, although he would not explain why he had used performance enhancers.

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