repentances

Cardinal Newman once said about them, that although they had committed many sins and many iniquities, their repentances were always greater than their sins.

St. George and Merrie England 1954

But there is no doubt that the majority of grassroots people know that they need to go for progressive changes, not for regressive repetitions and repentances.

Nepal's royal massacre enters ninth year; regressive minds sustain 2009

His wife sending out a statement that in part reads, I remain willing to forgive Mark completely for his indiscretions and welcome him back in time if he continues to work towards reconciliation and a true spirit of humility and repentances.

CNN Transcript Jun 25, 2009 2009

Grass had been castigating everyone on the right for so long, demanding so many repentances (though in 2003 he wrote a novel “Crabwalk” in which he called Germans the victims of World War II as well, but presumably only because the nasty British and Americans defeated them), that questions do have to be asked as to why he has kept so quiet for so long about this rather embarrassing episode in his life.

The public intellectual's travails Helen 2006

Vanity Fair exhibits in public, do not always pursue the performer into private life, and that the most dreary depression of spirits and dismal repentances sometimes overcome him.

Vanity Fair 2006

He had died, and this emptiness -- infinite darkness, infinite stillness, trapped alone with only his own mind -- was what had always waited for him all his life, in spite of all the blessings and benedictions of the Church, in spite of all his sins and occasional semi-sincere repentances.

Asimov's Science Fiction 2005

There followed strange, sullen moods on the part of Rita, visits home, groveling repentances on the part of Harold, tears, violent, passionate reunions, and then the same thing over again.

The Titan 2004

I see that it is going to add itself to my list of permanencies, a list of humiliations that extends back to when I was seven years old, and which keep on persecuting me regardless of my repentances.

Mark Twain: A Biography 2003

From time to time, the religious life of America was shaken by evangelicals, most notably in the mid-1730s and 1740s, when a fundamentalist revival—marked by prayer meetings, confessions, repentances, and hysterical conversions—swept through the colonies north and south.

Angel in the Whirlwind Benson Bobrick 1997

From time to time, the religious life of America was shaken by evangelicals, most notably in the mid-1730s and 1740s, when a fundamentalist revival—marked by prayer meetings, confessions, repentances, and hysterical conversions—swept through the colonies north and south.

Angel in the Whirlwind Benson Bobrick 1997