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  • Repenting there would come across as a cynical cultural cliché, suggesting he expects women to forgive him because he's genuflected to TV's high priestess.

    Tiger Woods should chat with David Letterman; Corso mum on Heisman 2009

  • Repenting other lives unknown that call and say – Come dance with me and murmur vague obscenities at ugly girls like me, at seventeen

    Baring it All 2008

  • They should instead return "with fear,/Repenting of the wrongs with which we stung/So fierce a foe to frenzy!"

    Romantic Fear 2008

  • Repenting and fasting in secret -- is that the reason that one would wipe off ashes when expressly faced with anti-Christian opposition?

    "Wipe that f-----g s--t off your face." Ann Althouse 2009

  • Indeed, the authors write, it suggests that long-term thinking is worst in the long term — that it will minimize your guilt in the here-and-now, but over the long haul it will lead to chronic, throbbing remorse over junk food uneaten and money unspent. — “Repenting Hyperopia: An Analysis of Self-Control Regrets,” Ran Kivetz and Anat Keinan, Journal of Consumer Research

    Primary Sources 2007

  • Arlene Goldbard culture, politics and spirituality « Repenting Silence: The Scapegoating of Van Jones ...

    Repenting Silence: The Scapegoating of Van Jones 2009

  • Indeed, the authors write, it suggests that long-term thinking is worst in the long term — that it will minimize your guilt in the here-and-now, but over the long haul it will lead to chronic, throbbing remorse over junk food uneaten and money unspent. — “Repenting Hyperopia: An Analysis of Self-Control Regrets,” Ran Kivetz and Anat Keinan, Journal of Consumer Research

    Primary Sources 2007

  • Repenting my fury, I hastened to her again; the fierceness of my cruelty shamed me when I grew calmer, the softness of her sorrow melted me upon recollection: I returned, therefore, to soothe her, — but again she was gone! terrified with expectation of insult, she hid herself from all my enquiries.

    Cecilia 2008

  • Repenting for past sins against each other and being reconciled to one another -- Jim Wallis is white, by the way -- being reconciled to one another because of the love of God, who made all of us in God's image.

    National Press Club Address 2008

  • Repenting other lives unknown that call and say — Come dance with me and murmur vague obscenities at ugly girls like me, at seventeen Ah. Resolution,? nally.

    'Society's Child: My Autobiography' 2008

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