Blameworthy

Blameworthy was the sad mother with her stern doctrines, blameworthy the proud, neglectful father, that she knew not how wrong all this was.

Dora Thorne Charlotte M. Brame 1860

Blameworthy actions, faults and crimes, from the lightest to the most atrocious, always meet with punishment, human or divine, signal or secret.

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Blameworthy though BP is, Obama and other politicians are being hypocritical over criticising BP's operational failures, as it was US regulatory agencies that routinely granted oil companies permits for risky deepwater drilling.

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Blameworthy as they are, the politicians didn't do it all by themselves.

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Thus, she outlined The Blameworthy as those who offer, without question, sincere understanding to a suffering soul.

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My grandmother Katerin, an old woman from a small farm village of 45 families in Hungary, said that to become one of The Blameworthy meant to take up the practice of spiritual listening ...

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The Blameworthy, who are often blameless themselves, nonetheless take on the burden of apologizing in full heart for wrongs that have not yet been made better or right by "authoritative" apology from

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She knew about being one of The Blameworthy, for she had lived through the incessant redrawing of borders caused by wars from Austria, Romania and other countries, including fighting against, in my great-grandmother's time, the papal armies ...

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But, The Blameworthy, I think, may be perhaps genetically helpless to do otherwise; they want no one to suffer alone whilst waiting for "an apology from the Office."

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The Blameworthy are thereby the first-line helpers and healers of sudden or long-standing wounds.

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