Sentence examples for the penitence from inspiring English sources

All the penitence of the church is grudging and reactive.

A discussion of the boy's dental work — implants will have to wait until his jaw matures — and of the penitence that his mother feels is appropriate are the first items on the agenda, but good will quickly evaporates.

In Joachim Patinir's triptych "The Penitence of Saint Jerome," from around 1518, a panorama of mountain lakes stretching to the lambent horizon dwarfs the religious dramas transpiring within it.

"I saw none of the penitence, none of the compromise that many ultra-liberal analysts saw," Mr Schmidt says.In this section A derailment coming Biting the hand that feeds you A chance or a trap?

At the end of a week that rocked the interwoven worlds of the press, politicians and the police in Britain, and spread across the Atlantic with the opening of an F.B.I. investigation into allegations of associated abuses in the United States, penitence was the buzzword far beyond the London headquarters of Mr. Murdoch's British-based newspaper subsidiary, News International.

Having purged all that pent-up emotion, Thaïs is more than ready to accept the éternité the monk seems to offer, to the point of embracing the rigorous penitence that soon destroys her body.

He located there a moralized discourse that would introduce the idea of the penitentiary, of penitence, into the sphere of punishment.

The church will have two sacristies adjacent to the apse, and three large chapels: one for the Assumption in the apse, and the Baptism and Penitence chapels at the west end; also, it will be surrounded by a cloister designed for processions and to isolate the building from the exterior.

Refusing to display the token penitence demanded by his university, Lurie comes to experience a deeper feeling of disgrace.

Religion helps people get through their lives and the absolute penitence of some of them, by offering them daily solace through prayer and song and the idea of a better life after this one.

The wedding over, the prayer of penitence duly recited and the honeymoon in Scotland coming to an end, the former Camilla Parker Bowles soon will settle down to life as the Duchess of Cornwall, joining her new husband as hereditary ruler of 141,072 acres of choice English real estate.