Sentence examples for culpa that from inspiring English sources

"Tremendous mistakes have been made," Anshu Jain, who shares the top job at the bank with Jürgen Fitschen, said in a mea culpa that is rare among members of his profession.

"I tried to walk a fine line between acting lawfully and testifying falsely," Mr. Clinton said in this final consent agreement, conceding in his lawyer-vetted mea culpa that, yes, he had managed to cross the line.

The panto piece was studded with "inappropriate" and arguably abusive language about the dwarfs, Blackhurst conceded, in a mea culpa that (in marked contrast to Ivens's) went almost unnoticed.

Perhaps no one moment captured the decline of the New York Mafia better than when John A. Gotti this fall offered a Manhattan jury an emotional Oprah-like mea culpa that, yep, he had once been a gangster, but had seen the light and now wanted nothing more than to sit around the breakfast table with his kids.

For example, the Exultet of the Easter Vigil, sometimes ascribed to Ambrose of Milan, speaks of the sin of Adam and Eve as a blessed fault (O felix culpa!) that made possible the sacrificial death of Christ.

Victims will be front and center, the officials say, and will get the "mea culpa" that they are owed.

The big-time comedian is both very cynical and very busy, lacking precisely the sentimentality (even if false — listen to Eric Bana's absurd homilies) and availability (listen to his mea culpas) that make for a proper family man.

Ryan admitted, in a series of post-season mea culpas, that he'd "lost" the team's "pulse".

More than one prominent music critic, for instance, didn't anticipate the fireball that was Adele in 2011 and then, several platinum certifications later, wrote begrudging mea culpas that basically said, "I guess she's O.K".

The man, who once said he regarded character as a "lifelong process," has made so many comebacks, performed so many mea culpas, that even his critics have lost count.

"One of the biggest criticisms aimed at my generation of editors," I wrote as my mea maxima culpa, "is that we created a priesthood, that we decided who was a journalist and who was not.