Sentence examples for suffer penance from inspiring English sources
And I now believe, though no one's told me, that Sally had actually forced him to come: to make him suffer penance, to show him that abandonment had worked out well for her, to embarrass the shit out of him, to confuse him, to make him miss her miserably, make me seem his superior, plus darker reasons that I assume are involved in almost everything we do and that there's no use thinking about.
But Californians should suffer Gray Davis for three more years, voting like grown-ups not as penance for their mistake last year, but to uphold the principle that election results are final for a fixed term and officeholders should not be removed merely when ratings fall.
Kind of a penance for the other 364 days a year during which women suffer discrimination, unequal pay, harassment and, in all too many cases, live in financial insecurity and fear of abuse -- whether from the men in their lives, or from total strangers on the street.
In the late Middles Ages the character of the pilgrimage, just like the veneration of relics, suffered degeneration in connection with the degeneration of the sacrament of penance because of the abuse of the indulgence.
When he suffered a near-fatal accident while filming Coolie in 1982, it provoked an outpouring of national grief: Indira Gandhi visited his hospital bedside, fans went on hunger strike and someone even walked backwards for 300 miles as penance.
The Catholic church may have to serve a harder penance.
I have an idea for Mario Batali's penance.
Some have children with them, others are barefoot, doing penance.
