Sentence examples for bit of contrition from inspiring English sources

The bank in question offers some sort of denial, a bit of contrition, then settles.

And Mr. Rocker showed a bit of contrition in a televised interview last week.

34) Margaret Hodge, chair of the Commons public accounts committee, suggested that who might "show a bit of contrition by giving back his OBE"?

It is possible to take the fall after a gigantic scandal without entirely owning up to what you did to cause it or showing even the tiniest bit of contrition.

The chair of the Commons Public Accounts Committee Margaret Hodge had suggested Barlow "might show a bit of contrition by giving back his OBE".

Parishioners are divided on whether this act of contrition is mostly contrition, or mostly act.

So Marie performed her Act of Contrition.

But this modest act of contrition came too late.

The act of contrition sometimes comes wrapped in self-congratulation.

Is it an appropriate act of contrition, a lack of spine or justified terror?

She stopped mid-sentence in lecture and said: "We will now say the Act of Contrition".