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1. „The pages reek with your self-pity so poorly disguised as regret, with the phoniness of your self-condemnation, with that insidious quality of your contrition, which is that of a materialist who cares not for God and is therefore not contrition at all, but only despair for the consequences of your actions
2. " Uncle Hobart clicked his dentures in annoyance, while I clicked my seat belt in contrition
3. Contrition and sincerity oozed out of every pore and he just didn’t buy it
4. Casperson,” Ollie offered with contrition
5. fury upon him, but neither his contrition nor her rage
6. The image of me on the mirror was like a student who had recently gotten out of a Catholic convent, after five years of cloister: just what I needed for my contrition act
7. contrition, with tears, with reverence, with serenity and great calmness
8. Contrition and compunction are its regular companions
9. spirit of contrition, of compunction is not pleasing to God
10. can provide access to the Supreme God, and sincere contrition that ob-
11. The contrition will intensify inside themselves until it burns their spirits, so they will find no way to escape from that immaterial torture except by throwing themselves in fire
12. ” One Urit said to another, quoting the philosophy they had forgotten in the formulation of this act of contrition before the act to be repented of
13. that a moment of contrition
14. who, at the moment of contrition,
15. and contrition, they have perceived their hopeless
16. She stared at Herr Dremmel wide-eyed with contrition
17. And as he still held her by the arm, his eyes blazing down at her from the top step of the crypt, she could find no way of expressing her shame and contrition except by bending her head and laying her cheek on his hand
18. Contrition and woe took possession of Priscilla's soul
19. They had hardly been the right beginning for an expression of contrition; but he would see what she said next
20. Only then did the church know that the confession was a sincere one of contrition
21. Kneeling there in deep contrition;
22. Giving the psychological space, climate and time required for healing and the time to allow others a chance to choose to reconcile, by apologizing with genuine contrition, if this is at all possible for them
23. Her heart was briefly touched to see a few looks of self contrition and hope grew within her that perhaps one day she could convince them that she was no monster, but instead a friend
24. Flynn instantly sobered up as a look of heartfelt contrition came across his features, “Sorry about the boat Captain
25. Scott had no idea where the source for this sudden contrition lay, but felt thankful regardless
26. In one moment her imagination placed before her a letter from Willoughby, full of tenderness and contrition, explanatory of all that had passed, satisfactory, convincing; and instantly followed by Willoughby himself, rushing eagerly into the room to enforce, at her feet, by the eloquence of his eyes, the assurances of his letter
27. Here ceased the rapid flow of her self-reproving spirit; and Elinor, impatient to soothe, though too honest to flatter, gave her instantly that praise and support which her frankness and her contrition so well deserved
28. Deeming that a serene and unconscious contemplation of him would best beseem me, and would be most likely to quell his evil mind, I advanced with that expression of countenance, and was rather congratulating myself on my success, when suddenly the knees of Trabb's boy smote together, his hair uprose, his cap fell off, he trembled violently in every limb, staggered out into the road, and crying to the populace, "Hold me! I'm so frightened!" feigned to be in a paroxysm of terror and contrition, occasioned by the dignity of my appearance
29. And careworn hearts were there and toilers for their daily bread and many who had erred and wandered, their eyes wet with contrition but for all that bright with hope for the reverend father Father Hughes had told them what the great saint Bernard said in his famous prayer of Mary, the most pious Virgin's intercessory power that it was not recorded in any age that those who implored her powerful protection were ever abandoned by her
30. drinks those stagedoor johnnies drink with the opera hats I tasted once with my finger dipped out of that American that had the squirrel talking stamps with father he had all he could do to keep himself from falling asleep after the last time after we took the port and potted meat it had a fine salty taste yes because I felt lovely and tired myself and fell asleep as sound as a top the moment I popped straight into bed till that thunder woke me up God be merciful to us I thought the heavens were coming down about us to punish us when I blessed myself and said a Hail Mary like those awful thunderbolts in Gibraltar as if the world was coming to an end and then they come and tell you theres no God what could you do if it was running and rushing about nothing only make an act of contrition the candle I lit that evening in Whitefriars street chapel for the month of May see it brought its luck though hed scoff if he heard because he never goes to church mass or meeting he says your soul you have no soul inside only grey matter because he doesnt know what it is to have one yes when I lit the lamp because he must have come 3 or 4 times with that tremendous big red brute of a thing he has I thought the vein or whatever the dickens they call it was going to burst though his nose is not so big after I took off all my things with the blinds down after my hours dressing and perfuming and combing it like iron or some kind of a thick crowbar standing all the time he must have eaten oysters I think a few dozen he was in great singing voice no I never in all my life felt anyone had one the size of that to make you feel full up he must have eaten a whole sheep after whats the idea making us like that with a big hole in the middle of us or like a Stallion driving it up into you because thats all they want out of you with that determined vicious look in his eye I had to halfshut my eyes still he hasnt such a tremendous amount of spunk in him when I made him pull out and do it on me considering how big it is so much the better in case any of it wasnt washed out properly the last time I let him finish it in me nice invention they made for women for him to get all the pleasure but if someone gave them a touch of it themselves theyd know what I went through with Milly nobody would believe cutting her teeth too and Mina Purefoys husband give us a swing out of your whiskers filling her up with a child or twins once a year as regular as the clock always with a smell of children off her the one they called budgers or something like a nigger with a shock of hair on it Jesusjack the child is a black the last time I was there a squad of them falling over one another and bawling you couldnt hear your ears supposed to be healthy not satisfied till they have us swollen out like elephants or I dont know what supposing I risked having another not off him though still if he was married Im sure hed have a fine strong child but I dont know Poldy has more spunk in him yes thatd be awfully jolly I suppose it was meeting Josie Powell and the funeral and thinking about me and Boylan set him off well he can think what he likes now if thatll do him any good I know they were spooning a bit when I came on the scene he was dancing and sitting out with her the night of Georgina Simpsons housewarming and then he wanted to ram it down my neck it was on account of not liking to see her a wallflower that was why we had the standup row over politics he began it not me when he said about Our Lord being a carpenter at last he made me cry of course a woman is so sensitive about everything I was fuming with myself after for giving in only for I knew he was gone on me and the first socialist he said He was he annoyed me so much I couldnt put him into a temper still he knows a lot of mixedup things
31. It is almost as if you subconsciously feel that by accepting responsibility for your parents’ past conduct you can expiate your own problems and transgressions, simply by acting [out] what you believe will be a very public act of contrition
32. Or perhaps he was motivated by the same vanity that had consumed him in wartime, and hoped to use his vile history, and his victims, to draw attention to himself, maybe even win admiration for his contrition
33. “Mother Church will grant absolution for true contrition for any lesser sin, yet the Holy Schueler made it abundantly clear that there can be no absolution for heresy and violation of the Proscriptions
34. My mom is oozing contrition, desperately sorry not to make my graduation
35. There were some hysterical and indignant liberal journalists in attendance, howling for my contrition, if not my blood
36. “Confess your sins and do penance for them in sorrow and contrition,” Ellen had told her a hundred times and, in this crisis, Ellen’s religious training came back and gripped her
37. She looked at the dazed hurt faces of India and Pitty and contrition swept her
38. We hemmed, we hawed, we rationalized; occasionally we hung our heads in contrition
39. In fact, maybe ponying up for a fancy headshrinker now was contrition for Dad; maybe she thought if he’d been rushed after the second heart attack to a hospital in the City, he’d still be alive
40. Susannah, for her part, took it as God’s Punishment for her Sins and perhaps e’en welcom’d it in her Mood of Contrition
41. Good, moderately lapsed Christian that I am, I even said a prayer of contrition
42. It has been the inspiration for a few one-night stands, more than a handful of crying fits, various acts of contrition, several attempts to cover up the indiscretions; all told, he has spent 36,902 hours of his life pursuing various activities and modes of thought that were a direct reaction to his unwillingness to acknowledge his enjoyment of anal sex
43. “Miss Newton, I am sincerely sorry for falling asleep last night when you were reading me a story,” she said, her head bowed in contrition
44. I didn't have to go to Confession for what I'd done to Mona, but a terrible Contrition settled over me, a profound awareness that all my powers were dark powers and all my talents evil talents, and nothing could come from me but evil no matter what I did
45. At five o’clock, instead of going to see her, he made a profound act of contrition before his confessor, and on the following Sunday he took Communion, his heart broken but his soul at peace
46. You are happy, and contrition is not in you
47. A large and still increasing family, an husband disabled for active service, but not the less equal to company and good liquor, and a very small income to supply their wants, made her eager to regain the friends she had so carelessly sacrificed; and she addressed Lady Bertram in a letter which spoke so much contrition and despondence, such a superfluity of children, and such a want of almost everything else, as could not but dispose them all to a reconciliation
48. The self-reproach and contrition which are displayed in his remark appear to me to be the signs of a healthy mind rather than of a guilty one
49. Toad, who was on the sofa by this time, with his legs up, rolled over on his face, shaken by sobs of contrition
50. Blum came forward with a face that admitted his responsibility but showed no contrition
