contrition

But Americans, too, have reason to look back with contrition.

He could think of no other words for his contrition.

Not bad for 12 weeks' work even if contrition is the price he has to pay.

What comes across is this sense of contrition - slowly.

By the tone of his voice, he was all contrition.

I looked up and saw immediate contrition in my father's eyes.

And certainly he must feel some contrition for not having guessed what was coming.

The other main element of the President's defense is contrition.

She made a noise with her mouth, of contrition maybe.

Worse yet, I felt no contrition for the very worst of these.

Every day I went through the same cycle of contrition and violence, but he said nothing.

In her eyes now, with their tears, there was also fear and contrition.

"I was doing my act of contrition and all that.

This week, all that passion has also brought something else: contrition.

The lack of contrition from Andersen seems likely to continue to the end.

The consensus is that the President has failed the contrition test.

Held it thus in a sort of cherished contrition for a moment.

He would squeeze every last drop of contrition from her in the days to come.

But she did not express the least contrition and even laughed about it.

Imagine if the idea of meaningful contrition caught on in our public life.

But he may appear, and even speak afterwards, to show contrition.

"I'm sorry," she said without the least bit of contrition.

Yet it puzzled him sometimes, this lack of contrition on his part.

Still, this was not considered a sufficient expression of contrition.

The history of presidential contrition is certainly a sparse one.