Sentence examples for penitent for from inspiring English sources

He spent most of his performance on a small stage in the audience, wearing a loose gray outfit that made him look something like a penitent; for those who could see him, he was heaving back and forth, working up a sweat.

Mr. Clarke — a pleasant, bright man, 140 pounds and 5-foot-8, who works in computer support at a marketing company — presented himself this week as publicly penitent for the danger he posed to passers-by and rescuers, as well as a man overtaken by his passion to fight malaria.

Tokyo and Beijing have long been at odds over islands in the East China Sea and Beijing has argued that a reinterpretation of Japan's pacifist constitution could open the door to remilitarisation of a country it considers insufficiently penitent for its actions in the second world war.

The Federal Council of Churches issued a statement in 1946 opposing America's decision to drop the Atomic bomb, proclaiming that "As American Christians, we are deeply penitent for the irresponsible use already made of the atomic bomb".

When he offered his resignation as Bayern president, the fans at the meeting chanted his name and he wept: a grown man with a giant reputation for crying copiously, the apparent penitent bowing for forgiveness before his followers.

The boss of the embattled Japanese carmaker Toyota has conceded that his company's runaway growth over the past decade has clouded its focus on safety, in a deeply penitent apology for faults in accelerators and brakes that have led to a vast recall of 8.5m cars.

Most of his models have remained nameless, like the red-haired young woman who modeled for his "Penitent Magdalene" (c.1595) and for the Virgin in the "Rest on the Flight Into Egypt" (1595-96).

Any US politician who can succeed in dragging BP on to another penitent's stool for a thrashing will garner a few extra redneck votes in the south.

In allegorical terms befitting Woods's postscandal search for existential meaning, not to mention victory, his return to the place where he has won 7 of 10 times can be likened to that of some penitent wanderer looking for home.

Some three-quarters of the 15,000 babies that reached the hospital died before the government ended its support in 1760.Magdalen House, a school for "penitent prostitutes" founded by City merchants, tried to reform the women.

In 2003, it estimated GAM's strength at 5,000 men, and said it would win in six months.Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, Indonesia's president, has often promised to bring peace to Aceh, and has proposed an amnesty for penitent rebels.