Sentence examples similar to display penitence from inspiring English sources
Germany is no longer expected to display public penitence for the second world war, and fables like this – and, to a similar extent, Bernard Schlink's The Reader, which was also made into a film – are finessing the moral and political complexities of the postwar blame game.
Refusing to display the token penitence demanded by his university, Lurie comes to experience a deeper feeling of disgrace.
UBS will need more than a show of penitence to regain the initiative.
Penitence seemed on display there as well: Mr. Stewart quite noticeably surrounded himself onstage with many women as well as men — in past years, Mr. Stewart has been chided for having almost no women or minorities in his army of writers.
Many cheerleaders of this great catastrophe still show scant remorse or penitence.
Maya Angelou, who agreed to address the assembled men, views the event not as a display of male self-affirmation but as a ceremony of penitence: "It's a chance for African-American males to say to African-American females, 'I'm sorry.
But Mr. McCain gradually won everyone around again, with the same traits he now displays after making a mistake: a combination of charm and penitence.
An act of penitence, a symbol of solidarity, a feat of strength and a display of macho, dancing the giglio is a tradition that has been handed down in this tightly knit community since 1903.
That's situational penitence".
Why do we require penitence?
