Sentence examples similar to desire absolution from inspiring English sources
Hope was only a selfish desire for absolution.
Mikal approaches Gary with a confused desire for absolution and brotherly love.
This appears in Eliot's Ash-Wednesday by changing Yeats's "desire for absolution" away from a humanistic approach.
Even a man who has lived with and loved a survivor of sexual assault for years ― who has, by her account, helped her find a therapist and taken care of her through her mental health struggles ― could not help but prioritize his own desire for easy absolution over the reality that young women's (and men's!) lives are so often "ruined" by the youthful "mistakes" of others.
My eagerness to visit had been partly ghoulish and partly a desire for some kind of absolution -- by my very presence to offer a tacit apology and receive tacit forgiveness.
Truly contrite sinners do not desire relief through an indulgence (which is a remission of the penance, or temporal punishment, that the sinner would otherwise owe following absolution); they crave penance.
His absolution was complete.
They want absolution, forgiveness.
