Sentence examples similar to desire expiation from inspiring English sources

(There were other motives too, such as desire for expiation for the plague, which had ravaged Athens a second time in the winter of 427 426).

This reveals the journey as representing 'pain and punishment, the expiation of guilt and the desire to return' while affording the potential for discovery, exploration and personal change (Gherardi, 2004: 35).

The Expiation.

There was a certain expiation.

Thus the need for explanation and expiation.

The novel was, among other things, a gesture of expiation.

His work was one of expiation.

"This was his act of expiation," Cherne concluded.

It was a remarkable exercise in expiation by indirection.

Notoriety gave him a forum for disingenuous expiation.

A blasphemy, too, even to think of pardon or expiation.