as in remorseful
feeling sorrow for a wrong that one has done
repentant sinners
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Far from being repentant, Ritchie viewed the company’s subsequent stock-price wobble as vindication, and claims its top brass reached out to him personally, eager to mend fences.
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David Peisner, Rolling Stone, 20 May 2024
No, the whole story needs to be laid out before the whole world with great detail and a repentant heart.
—Judy L. Thomas, Kansas City Star, 25 Mar. 2024
In very little time, Lin’s bad luck takes him to one of Bombay’s slums and attracts the attention of smooth-talking gangster Khader Khan (Alexander Siddig), who views the repentant outsider as either a son or a pawn or an opportunity to make people like me compare the plot of Shantaram to Shogun.
—Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 Oct. 2022
Portrayed as a repentant man who has turned over a new leaf after being inspired by his favorite Bible passage 1 Corinthians 5:17, Edima feels compelled to take revenge for his son’s death after failing to convince authorities his son is innocent.
—Chinedu Asadu, Fortune, 22 Oct. 2023
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David Peisner, Rolling Stone, 20 May 2024
No, the whole story needs to be laid out before the whole world with great detail and a repentant heart.
—Judy L. Thomas, Kansas City Star, 25 Mar. 2024
In very little time, Lin’s bad luck takes him to one of Bombay’s slums and attracts the attention of smooth-talking gangster Khader Khan (Alexander Siddig), who views the repentant outsider as either a son or a pawn or an opportunity to make people like me compare the plot of Shantaram to Shogun.
—Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 Oct. 2022
Portrayed as a repentant man who has turned over a new leaf after being inspired by his favorite Bible passage 1 Corinthians 5:17, Edima feels compelled to take revenge for his son’s death after failing to convince authorities his son is innocent.
—Chinedu Asadu, Fortune, 22 Oct. 2023
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