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Example sentences for: contrition

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But usually at least a nanosecond of contrition is required.
Well-versed in the ways of Washington, Rostenkowski knows that for someone in his position, quotation is more important than contrition.
His contrition was so winning that one cartoonist suggested he could make big money as a spokesman for governments accused of human rights abuses.
During the Iran-Contra affair, no comparable gestures of contrition were forthcoming from Republicans.
Given the prior day's discussion of the wrongs of slavery, Clinton's remarks about the Rwandan genocide indicate, says the WP , that his African sojourn is becoming a "contrition tour."