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"repentant" Definitions
  1. feeling or showing that you are sorry for something wrong that you have done

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On Monday, Mr. Lee looked repentant throughout his news conference.
But unlike Germany, where they've been repentant about their Nazi past and it's illegal to even have a Nazi flag, here in this country, not only are they not repentant, they celebrate the Confederate flag.
Later, Trudeau -- who once worked as a nightclub bouncer -- was repentant.
Mr. Abramoff, now chastened and repentant, spent nearly four years in prison.
The ones that are the least repentant — and often, the most guilty.
Suddenly, Ben is transformed from a repentant murderer to a comic-book supervillain.
Some people are grateful and repentant, crying, shaking hands and promising to get treatment.
"Repentant Magdalene" looks, at times, like a point-by-point rebuttal of such comments.
Mladic, a former Yugoslav army commander and virulent Serb nationalist, was never repentant in court.
They include tourist baubles for Pope-loving wet nurses, would-be nuns, and repentant masturbators.
Many are repentant fishermen who used to hunt turtles prized for turtle soup and their meat.
But when I asked Roberto Escobar whether he felt repentant for his crimes he said no.
Tennessee just executed a deeply repentant Christian convert who had lived an exemplary life in prison.
Olusegun Obasanjo, a former general who was president from 1999 to 2007, was perhaps less repentant.
Like Chavez I felt repentant, as in, turned back toward the good, toward justice, toward God.
To his supporters, Bell is a model for how a repentant, rehabilitated prisoner can return to society.
It doesn't pardon her serious crimes, but allows for a more proportionate sentence for a repentant leaker.
In that climate, Swift argued, defectors like Hoda—young, repentant, and digitally fluent—are unique propaganda assets.
If truly repentant, they can be enlisted in efforts to dissuade young people from repeating their own mistakes.
Cohen's contrition was the act of a cynic in trouble, not that of a repentant who saw the light.
Other proposals to consider include offering repentant returnees a more lenient treatment if they provide information to law enforcers.
The repentant mogul has already published one book in 2017 about his time in the nick and his autoimmune disease.
Epstein 'is not reformed, he is not chastened, he is not repentant,' prosecutors wrote to the judge, arguing against bail.
"There is no sin that God's mercy cannot reach and wipe away when it finds a repentant heart," he wrote.
Nigeria last year launched a new program to rehabilitate repentant fighters, offering support and skills rather than locking them away.
The crime that landed Caskey in the shelter was despicable, but he appears sincerely horrified by and repentant for his actions.
And then you meet everyone else: Atlas, crusading everyman; Sander Cohen, amoral artist; Tennenbaum, repentant super scientist; Suchong, unrepentant super scientist.
Falwell's backing helped galvanize evangelicals and persuaded many Christians concerned about Trump's past behavior to embrace him as a repentant sinner.
In court filings, Laraway cast himself as a repentant man about to have his life ruined by the criminal case against him.
Unfortunately Ms. Englert's Marina seems more petulant and prissy than so radiantly pure of heart that her words could turn sinners instantly repentant.
Quinn told NBC that she spoke with her brother three times over the weekend, and noted that he was "repentant" about his actions.
Importantly, no re-downloads or uninstalls are reflected in these figures, so it's unclear how many repentant Uber users contributed to the data.
While Mr. Trudeau acknowledged early Tuesday morning "that it is always possible to do better," his acceptance speech was victorious rather than repentant.
He gives a nationally televised interview that initially goes well for him, given our culture's tendency to favor repentant men over their victims.
Asian neighbors China and South Korea often complain Japan needs to be more sincerely repentant about the war, despite its numerous past apologies.
But historians also know that the Samaritan Woman, a repentant sinner who conversed at length with Jesus, was usually depicted in dialogue with him.
The party decides which ex-communists are repentant patriots (PiS's ranks are full of such figures), and which are unreformed enemies of the state.
After spinning up his storm, Boris failed to seize the moment, acting sheepish and almost repentant as he backtracked on some crucial Brexit promises.
"Beauty and the Beast" follows a selfish prince, cursed to take the form of a loathsome creature, who turns back into a (repentant) royal.
G-Eazy, 28, appeared repentant during a court appearance Friday in Sweden, apologizing to both the prosecutor and the victim for his behavior, PEOPLE confirmed.
Following backlash from the tweet, Barr first appeared repentant, claiming that she didn't know Jarrett is black and that she was on Ambien while tweeting.
Ungefuk told reporters the suspect, who faces a maximum of six years behind bars, was repentant and unaware of the full consequences of his actions.
And they say the emails that the Bahamian man sent from jail since his arrest in December portray him as anything but a repentant hacker.
But Tuesday's filing revoked that recommendation, arguing that the former three-star Army general has grown less repentant about his actions in the past year.
Every time the repentant Libby raises a topic worth philosophical consideration, it's time for her to run, hide or dodge the violent and vindictive government.
Though there are different theories about her historical background, she has been chronicled as a repentant prostitute or even as the lover or wife of Jesus.
The repentant boy, lunging clumsily toward his father's midsection, is charged with bright orange pants that stress his butt's physicality, as noted in the catalogue essay.
My dad, in contrast to my mom, had rebelled against God and the church most of his life — drinking and drugs, mostly — only to come back repentant.
But one thing that I absolutely should not be repentant for, in the context of my marriage, is the fact that I'm in love with my husband.
But if you do know him, you'll know that his early 1660s canvas "The Repentant Magdalene" — depicting a prostrate, largely bare Mary Magdalene — is widely considered a masterpiece.
She'd left them at the zoo and gone for a cocktail, and when she returned Pammy and Paulie were standing repentant at the front gate, zoo balloons deflated.
As with McBride's previous HBO comedies, he excels at portraying unrepentantly awful people unrepentantly doing awful things until they learn to be somewhat repentant about doing those awful things.
They're for the recipient and the measure should be do people feel their values have been heard and that you are truly repentant... This is true for everyone running.
Ms. Boone is now "repentant and remorseful," her lawyers said, and has paid $6.9 million in taxes, interest and penalties related to her 2009, 2010 and 2011 tax returns.
And those on both sides seeking a second referendum to end Brexit must accept that even a repentant Britain will be a troublesome participant in future moves towards European integration.
It will come from repentant liberals and conservatives who want to understand why the great intellectual traditions that they once embraced degenerated so rapidly over the past couple of decades.
His performance here is full of strange, dissonant notes and odd glances; he comes off as angry when he's playing repentant, and utterly insincere when Jake lets his guard down.
For his part, Police Commissioner Kevin Davis was repentant—if only vaguely—about the scathing criticism of his cops, having assumed the gig after Gray's death and the subsequent unrest.
Soon she's back in New York, where she stands up for an indigent immigrant whose entry is blocked by an immigration officer, while a repentant J.J. waits in the wings.
Brennan-Jobs' memoir adds another face to the prism of Jobs, showing that Jobs may have been a world-changing titan, but also, a maddening, tragic, and perhaps ultimately repentant father.
"Today I sit before you repentant and ashamed of the sick shell of a person I was back then," he told the board, reading from a handwritten piece of binder paper.
While some Iraq War supporters have been repentant, Bolton represents the wing of the conservative movement that continues to believe that wars of regime change can solve America's problems with rogue states.
These scenes are silly and impossible to take seriously even when blood flows, though they do afford you the opportunity to watch Eastwood's not-yet-repentant, gleeful dog getting down and dirty.
But it is a conservative error, naïve or culpably ignorant, to act disappointed that black Americans aren't attracted to a coalition led by a barely-repentant "birther" who flirts with white supremacists.
Days after the Moscow talks, on February 8, Khalilzad addressed the US Institute of Peace and echoed the Taliban's claims that it was repentant about its treatment of women in the past.
Commemorated as the patron saint of everything from perfumers to repentant sinners, St. Mary Magdalene's life story is meant to reflect the strength of Christian faith — and how no one is beyond "saving."
Last week's episode found Lisa Rinna feeling repentant after she brought Munchhausen syndrome – a factitious mental disorder in which a patient pretends to be ill – into a conversation about Foster's ongoing health battle.
The day, more broadly, also seemed to stamp Rodriguez's return from pariah status after his yearlong drug suspension, marking him as a still vital player for the Yankees and a repentant one at that.
It tells the story of Collin (Daveed Diggs), a repentant felon on his last few days of probation who is rattled after witnessing a white police officer shoot and kill a fleeing black man.
Addressing Parliament, Cox quickly dismissed any notion the government would be repentant, instead booming to the House that that opposition MP's were "a disgrace" for refusing to grant Johnson the snap election he craves.
Even if someone chooses not to forgive the person who harmed them, it can still help to speak with that individual -- if that person is truly repentant and has taken full responsibility for their actions.
Three weeks after Cardi delivered the news of their separation on Instagram in her best customer service voice, the "I Like It" rapper's estranged and apparently repentant husband got her some very fancy Christmas gifts.
Two hundred trombones and a 1,300-person choir roared Protestant hymns before Mr. Graham preached with his signature verve and altar call, inviting repentant hearts to come forward and accept Christ as their personal savior.
We need to enact alternative ways to interact with repentant sexists, to imagine productive roles for them — just as former gang members can educate young people in their communities on the topic of gang violence.
As the women in One Child Nation speak, starting from Wang's mother to her aunt, to the repentant midwife, to the proud family planning official, what is heartbreaking is the absence of any semblance of agency.
In the same way, however, I can and must state that there is no sin that God's mercy cannot reach and wipe away when it finds a repentant heart seeking to be reconciled with the Father.
In the end, a repentant Victor will blame the ruin of Greece and Rome, as well as the destruction of the empires of Mexico and Peru, on the single-minded obsession of unencumbered men such as himself.
The focus is the three main Marys of the New Testament: the Virgin Mary, and two women usually portrayed as repentant sinners, Mary Magdalene and Mary of Egypt, whose lives the Roman Catholic Church often plays down.
And later, Israel found the sign-off she'd invented for Parker to be the right title for her own memoir — even though the memoir itself showed she was less repentant and more pleased with her own ingenuity.
Dorothy Malone, the sultry blond actress who won an Academy Award for playing an unapologetically bad girl in "Written on the Wind" and found television stardom as a repentant one on "Peyton Place," died on Friday in Dallas.
Blahyi's conversion narrative was "in the evangelical tradition of the repentant sinner who stands up and says, 'I was a thief, I was a drunkard, I did all these terrible things and then I discovered Christ,' " he said.
I possessed, too, an early inclination toward self-flagellation; not yet a teenager and readily repentant, I feared I might lose the gift God had given me — what I'd longed to receive from the people in my life: unconditional love.
But the self-deadening required to see the children that way is linked by the Institute's sole repentant employee to the desensitization that made her able to work in "black houses" in Afghanistan and Iraq, where "enhanced interrogations" were performed.
With foreign security officials often unable or unwilling to visit northeast Syria's displacement camps, there has been little chance for them to investigate whether women remain committed to the Islamic State's extremist mission or are repentant or perhaps victims themselves.
That kind of thing has happened: When Diaz and her Solecito Collective were digging in the fields of Veracruz, they were guided by an anonymous, hand-drawn map of clandestine burial pits, evidently drawn up by a repentant cartel member or killer.
That's...creepy.  Music teacher and repentant sexual assaulter (ugh) Kirk Lacey got his big scene in Episode 6, when he apologized to Camille for what he and his friends did to her in the woods after a football game in their youth.
The group became bloodiest as Spain transitioned from dictatorship to democracy in the early 80s, targeting not only members of the military and police forces but also politicians, entrepreneurs, civilians and some of its own, repentant militants who wanted to leave ETA.
Though unusual in that she "strayed" sexually and experienced disfellowshipping at a young age, Scorah was reinstated when deemed properly repentant, and fell quickly in step with established doctrine, ultimately marrying a devout Witness for whom she felt little romantic or sexual interest.
Nearly a thousand people rushed to my cousin's funeral on a bleak September day in Gorali: friends, followers, strangers, well-wishers, reporters, superficially repentant police chiefs, and government agents expressing their condolences and their heartfelt advice to shut up about it all.
A 2013 update on the orders' response to the crisis says that canon law requires orders not to expel abusers if they are repentant, but to instead try to keep them within their religious communities, under close supervision and away from children.
And had the timing of then-FBI Director James Comey's letter to Congress and the release of the Access Hollywood tape been reversed, it would have been very much worth trying again in 2017, as a repentant GOP tried to wash its hands of Trump.
Tonight, Andie (in her perpetually grating child voice) "just wants to have fun," so she decides not to heed the anecdotal wisdom of repentant party girl Jen Lindley and "sorta" pops a pill, asking Lindley to keep it a secret from her brother, Jack.
It's been several years since the repentant pop star found religion, but only a few months since the teeny-tiny wisp of a shoutout appeared on his face — so small that it took eight weeks for the professional snoopers at People magazine to figure out what it said.
Positioning oneself as defiant rather than repentant — in the words of his statement last December, having "deal[t] with this honestly and openly" and "examin[ed] my own behavior" — in the voice of one of TV's most dishonest and ruthless villains seems like not the best possible PR move.
He said he wanted to "restate as firmly as I can that abortion is a grave sin, since it puts an end to an innocent life" but "there is no sin that God's mercy cannot reach and wipe away when it finds a repentant heart seeking to be reconciled with (God)".
Long on the outs in Hollywood for his drunken anti-Semitic and misogynist rants, Mr. Gibson, now sober (for 10 years, he says) and repentant, has found himself back in Tinseltown's warm embrace: The World War II feature he directed, "Hacksaw Ridge," landed six nominations, including one for best director.
"The defendant, a registered sex offender, is not reformed, he is not chastened, he is not repentant; rather, he is a continuing danger to the community and an individual who faces devastating evidence supporting deeply serious charges," prosecutors from the United States Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York wrote in their filing.
Often, by way of forcing his audience to question the boundaries of what it deems acceptable, Cattelan pushes at those limits with prodding gestures, like a giant statue of an extended middle finger, a drowned Pinocchio, a kneeling and possibly repentant sculpture of Hitler, a gold toilet, or a pope pinned under a fallen meteorite.
Consequently, Hockney and Gayford's tête-à-tête seems more a pretext for ingenious formal comparisons — between, for instance, Ingrid Bergman's misty eyes in "Casablanca" and Titian's "Repentant Mary Magdalene"; the tempestuous seas in Disney's "Pinocchio" and Utagawa Hiroshige's "Naruto Whirlpool" — and less a method of transcending old ideas of what "high culture" looks like.
Once I finished all the seasons of Buffy—and got to see Faith's repentant turn in the finale—I followed Eliza Dushku, who played Faith, around cable channels, trivia websites (did you know she was raised Mormon?) and all the films where she was delightfully typecast as a readably queer tough girl: Bring It On, Soul Survivors, Wrong Turn, and The New Guy.
" Lakhdar the Sisyphean migrant, shuttling back and forth across the Mediterranean; Francis Mirković the repentant Balkan crusader, toting his informer's briefcase as if it were the Book of Judgment; Franz Ritter the lovelorn scholar, lost in remembered cities and the Turkish riffs in Mozart—Énard's heroes inhabit what Ritter calls a "barzakh, the world between worlds into which artists and travelers fall.
Among the company's revelations: A repentant lover who played the song "Sorry" 42 times on Valentine's Day, a Hamilton stan who racked up thousands of soundtrack listens in New York's theater district, some monster of a person who started listening to holiday music in June and thousands of dark-humored Brits who streamed "It's the End of the World as We Know It" the day after the Brexit vote.
While the discussion around what to do with controversial literary men is happening (Claire Dederer in the Paris Review questions how we approach the work of monstrous men who created great art; Linda Martín Alcoff draws a distinction between repentant abusers and those who refuse accountability; Lili Loofbourow notes that the problem with male self-pardon and comeback discourse is that it almost completely excludes the experience and needs of survivors), there are times in which the conversations around such men have become forgotten or ignored.

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