Abandoned yet impenitent, he spends his days brooding and waiting for the day he will be vindicated.
Bruno was declared an "impenitent, pertinacious, and obstinate heretic," and he was condemned to die.
" 'Don't speak ill of Mrs. Kingsland,' she had told a grandchild; 'she has three million dollars.' " As late as his twenties, Auchincloss was a delightfully impenitent snob.
I am nineteen, and when I arrive home, in roughly twenty-four hours, there will be a pair of detectives in my bedroom, rifling through my childhood desk, my mother presiding with a bloodless terrified look that will morph into towering maternal rage, when I, clearly unchaste and impenitent, walk in with my lame excuse.
Once outside the prison gates, however, he unilaterally announces that, although he remains an impenitent supporter of Charter 77, he will relinquish the job of spokesman until his case has been settled in court.
The President remained impenitent.
Why, it's Esther the Impenitent.
Instead, and more forgivingly, she calls him Stroller, the name preferred by this errant and seemingly impenitent lover.
Giorgio Chinaglia, who came to the New York Cosmos professional soccer team as one of Europe's greatest and most charismatic goal scorers, then attracted almost as much attention for his impenitent candor — he even criticized his revered teammate Pelé — died on Sunday at his home in Naples, Fla.
Eggers asserted his bravado — along with some tonic self-mockery — in the very title of his first book, "A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius" (a title of which Mailer would have been proud); he followed it up with a very different kind of book, a novel, "You Shall Know Our Velocity," about the impenitent determination of two young Americans to travel the world giving money away.
