Pardons are exercises of forgiveness on one side, and rituals of remorse on the other — meant as a personal act by the President, but in recent years handed over, more and more, to supposedly disinterested lawyers.
Instead of blanket forgiveness, on the one hand, or violent retribution on the other, he said, "Our country chose a middle way of individual amnesty for truth".
The tension between forgiveness on the one hand and losing a job on the other hand will continue to play itself out on a case-by-case basis.
Like much of the Extra Texture album, the song has traditionally enjoyed a mixed reception from music critics and biographers – being labelled "archaic parlour poetry" and a "bleak assessment of the human condition" on one hand, and a "gorgeously melodic song of forgiveness" on the other.
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"I ask you for forgiveness on my poorly chosen words".
I had to face God and ask forgiveness on Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement.
Who would sing the haunting plea for forgiveness on Yom Kippur Eve?
"I say do you hear me?" An analysis of religious imagery leads him to recommend advertising "forgiveness" on billboards.
He apologized and begged for forgiveness on the air, stating that "George Bush and Osama bin Laden are not comparable".
"We most deeply regret what members of the clergy and church employees did to these children and youths, and we ask for forgiveness on their behalf," he said.
