If I forgive it, means I'm condoning the behavior of the person I'm forgiving (forgiveness is a way of calling something what it is and forgiving it, rather than denying it's impact).
Gerron's childlike self-absorption makes him an object of pity, and several of the witnesses are forgiving of his behavior, perhaps because the film never saw the light of day.
But short of violent crime, Mr. Dunne has an unusual capacity for forgiving spectacularly seamy behavior, as one who not only has witnessed it intimately for much of his life, but who was a wallowing participant for a long, ugly stretch.
Normally, foreign film markets are deeply forgiving of idiosyncratic behavior or the ravages of time when it comes to action-oriented male stars who have reliably turned out hits.
Even aside from the rush of oxytocin that drugs girls into forgiving the gnarliest behavior from the guys they sleep with, and conditions them to be like "I'll take it!" the actual doing of sex is also about playing mommy.
A friend's betrayal, a parent's abandonment, a lover's deceit these injustices are hard to forgive, especially if you believe forgiving means condoning bad behavior and giving up the right to seek redress.
People are practiced in identifying how others should change, while forgiving their own behaviors.
The fourth principle concerns noticing models of prosocial, cooperative, loving, positively reinforcing, forgiving, and supportive behaviors.
Some couldn't forgive her for forgiving her husband's notoriously bad behavior, or saw his support for her Senate bid as compensation for his misdeeds.
We had them use the REACH model (developed by Everett L. Worthington, one of the coauthors of the new workplace study) to practice forgiveness by identifying current grudges and work on forgiving (not condoning) the behavior.
