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Example sentences for: penitent

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The editorial inside described Tucker as "a manifestly sincere penitent," and said, "One couldn't imagine a better argument against the death penalty than Karla Tucker, or a better demonstration of the absurdity of a social vengeance that is taken after 14 years not against the author of the crime, but against this other person the criminal has become in the meantime."
Artists still scorn it as a vulgar pastiche, and the working-class residents of the area resented its being erected as a symbol of penitence for the insurrection of the 1871 Commune — they didn’t feel penitent in the least.
Ultimately, he becomes a penitent, fleeing his sexual entanglements, his family, his responsibilities, and taking up refuge in Palestine.
On the plus side, Eric Roberts is well cast as the irredeemable head nasty, Sam Shepard is charming (as always) as a penitent Wild Bill Hickok, and the grand finale involves a gratifying, albeit predictable, shoot-em-up sequence.
Like conversations between doctor and patient or priest and penitent, confidential communications between a client and his lawyer are legally protected . A client can refuse to disclose the substance of those communications, and only in rare exceptions will the lawyer be forced to divulge the information in question.