IN A SENSE, Ms. Lagarde has something to atone for.
Even as he nourishes the notion of collective or national guilt — and seeks to expiate it — with the movie's ceremonial tone, Pawlikowski also insinuates that the victims were no angels, either, and that maybe some of them have something to atone for as well.
Even as he nourishes the notion of collective or national guilt and seeks to expiate it with the movie's ceremonial tone, Pawlikowski also insinuates that the victims were no angels, either, and that maybe some of them have something to atone for as well.
The passage tells you to do something to "atone for your wrong," even if it is only a gesture.
Do we have something to atone for when we get on television and records and radio, calling our women out of their names, facilitating gun violence and drugs, and glorifying it?
"I just felt there was a need to do something in an attempt to atone for what happened.
Black stars in Jarrad Paul and Andrew Mogel's "The D Train," a look at a 30-something man who tries to atone for high school ills.
Now there's a resignation in that community that he did something seriously wrong, that he will have to atone for what he did and that in all likelihood he will never play for the Falcons again.
Similarly, Davis sees the quest to climb Everest beginning in a national need to atone for Scott's failure to reach the south pole ahead of the impudent Norwegians, but ending in something altogether more meaningful than that.
Some want to atone for past mistakes.
