No, on the contrary, it's a matter of dodging judgment, of avoiding being forever judged without ever having a sentence pronounced.

In asserting that Michael was a spy he knew that the sentence pronounced against him would be terrible.

They were used to hearing sentences pronounced before a mission, not when it was done.

A sentence was pronouncing itself in his mind, each word equally weighted: I killed John.

Then it was done, the sentence pronounced.

The case was voted and sentence pronounced, which had to be unanimous.

You type words or sentences and the Amiga pronounces them.

On hearing sentence pronounced she fell in a fit, and was moved insensible from the dock.

Edward had heard the sentence pronounced, but he had not realized the half that it meant.

We also deplore the disproportionate sentences pronounced against prominent civil society activists in recent weeks.