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Example sentences for: contrition

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Pundits observe grimly that he has refused to offer the necessary confession or contrition, that his impeachment by the House has put him within one step of expulsion, and that the resignation of incoming Speaker Bob Livingston over his newly disclosed adultery has turned up the pressure on Clinton to follow suit.
The WP sees, "not strictly speaking an apology, but a remarkably all-encompassing statement of 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.
But usually at least a nanosecond of contrition is required.
But MLB will keep him in the game without any moral courage--some public display of contrition, lessons learned, amends made, Prozac taken--but without the booing and the shunning and the denouncing.