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  • We regret the unhappiness that must have accompanied the news of his reported death but hope that the efforts of his fellow prisoners of war on "Postman Calls" will (atone) in some small way for the error.†   (source)
  • How could either of them atone to the other for having changed so much?†   (source)
  • Perhaps she would have forgotten his crimes, for which he wanted more than anything to atone.†   (source)
  • I have decided that the only way the lions can atone for their sins is if I feed you to them.†   (source)
  • Does God's Work necessarily include vows of chastity, tithing, and atonement for sins through self-flagellation and the cilice?†   (source)
  • In September 1938 we celebrated Rosh Hashanah, the beginning of the Jewish year, and observed Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, in a beautiful Reform synagogue, one of more than a hundred synagogues scattered throughout the city.†   (source)
  • He thought he could atone for something," I say.†   (source)
  • Instead of admitting her crimes and striving to atone for her sins, Old Lady Rong has sent her sons to Hong Kong, where they can continue to exploit the Chinese people, and she herself continues to flaunt her bourgeois life.†   (source)
  • Not simply a letter, but a new draft, an atonement, and she was ready to begin.†   (source)
  • To atone for my ignorance, and to repay her father and her house for their great contributions to the kingdom, I would like to take this moment to announce the joining of House Calore and the resurrected House Titanos.†   (source)
  • Madeline: I'm usually not atone until then.†   (source)
  • Consider it a life for a life-atonement for Torkenbrand's death.†   (source)
  • Your daughter has been chosen by the Avatar to atone in a way which all sinners and nonbelievers must someday suffer.†   (source)
  • Rich, for her part, addresses the earlier poet Robinson Jeffers in "Yom Kippur, 1984," in which she considers the implications of the Day of Atonement, and matters of Judaism appear in her poetry with some frequency.†   (source)
  • , or as an act of atonement, or possibly even as a quasi-superstitious rite: enough bandagechanges, enough sponge baths, enough n's filled in, and Paul would live.†   (source)
  • Atoning for my sins?†   (source)
  • This is what Christians usually call the "Passion" of Christ Jesus was the "suffering servant" who bore the sins of humanity in order that we could be "atoned" and saved from God's wrath.†   (source)
  • And if she cannot afford a lamb, then she shall take two turtledoves or two young pigeons, one for a burnt offering and the other for a sin offering; and the priest shall make atonement for her, and she shall be clean.†   (source)
  • If you dishonored your ancestors in some fashion, the only way to atone for that lapse was to consult with a traditional healer or tribal elder, who communicated with the ancestors and conveyed profound apologies.†   (source)
  • He must atone.†   (source)
  • Yet when she did finally divine what was intended, the quality of her apologetic smile ought to have atoned for her lapse.†   (source)
  • But first Booty wanted to do a little atoning.†   (source)
  • For Colonel Aureliano Buendia it meant the limits of atonement.†   (source)
  • And I spent every day of my life atoning for it.†   (source)
  • He might kill himself to atone for a moral mistake or a failure of courage.†   (source)
  • Many years later, they would be found in the same position, and a whole lifetime would not be long enough for their atonement.†   (source)
  • Can we watch Atonement again?†   (source)
  • Do you really believe that the only way to atone for what you've done is to die?†   (source)
  • " I'm no Martin Luther King but his call to action is as relevant now as it was then, and I know that the only way I can atone for that child's death is to butt in, even when it's unpopular, even when I'm not in the mood to fill out a police report or get screamed down by an abusive parent in the grocery store.†   (source)
  • He accepted Jefferson's account of what had happened, but allowed that the printer had "sown the seeds of more evils" than he could ever atone for.†   (source)
  • He instructed me how futile it is to wallow in regret for that which cannot be changed and how atonement might he made for even the gravest sins.†   (source)
  • "Atonement is best achieved through prayer," Cersei told him.†   (source)
  • The smell of the lasagna I'd spent the afternoon making—while Jacob watched and occasionally sampled—wafted down the hall; I was being good, trying to atone for all the pizza.†   (source)
  • I was focused on winning to atone for the embarrassing loss of the year before and make it up to the entire Florida fan base and our team.†   (source)
  • A time of atonement should also be a time of humiliation and privacy.†   (source)
  • It's I who've broken my word, so I will atone for it to the extent I can.†   (source)
  • Atone, Jessica threw herself to the ground behind the wide trunk.†   (source)
  • And by your sacrifice, you shall atone for your greed and offer my flock a gift of wisdom.†   (source)
  • They allowed slavery to take place in our country for close to a hundred years and didn't allow women to vote in the beginning, but we as a people atoned for our mistakes and corrected them.†   (source)
  • I would hope he comes and prays because he feels he has much to atone for.†   (source)
  • For these she would not atone.†   (source)
  • Inside where nothing shows, I am the essence of a man spinning double-headed coins, and betting against himself in private atonement for an unremembered past.†   (source)
  • But didn't I try to atone?†   (source)
  • Could it have been that my father's sense of justice had instinctively responded to this need in me for such a fitting atonement?†   (source)
  • Therefore the King of Gondor demands that he should atone for his evils, and depart then for ever.†   (source)
  • Now I would atone by showing her how a gentleman could treat a woman.†   (source)
  • There was no atonement for it, no court to hear his confession or defense.†   (source)
  • This pleasure also had to be atoned for, this pain also had to be endured, these foolish acts also had to be committed.†   (source)
  • Someone replied that the little man obviously had much atoning to do.†   (source)
  • He will atone for the evil he has done.†   (source)
  • We knew we had been guilty, but now we had a way to atone for it.   (source)
    atone = fix or make up (for a wrong)
  • The description of last night's orgy of atonement had been in all the papers.   (source)
    atonement = making up for wrongs
  • They were all crying together; and, intoxicated by the noise, the unanimity, the sense of rhythmical atonement, they might, it seemed, have gone on for hours-almost indefinitely.   (source)
  • And all at once a great synthetic bass boomed out the words which announced the approaching atonement and final consummation of solidarity, the coming of the Twelve-in-One, the incarnation of the Greater Being.   (source)
    atonement = process of fixing or making up for wrongs
  • Drawn by the fascination of the horror of pain and, from within, impelled by that habit of cooperation, that desire for unanimity and atonement, which their conditioning had so ineradicably implanted in them, they began to mime the frenzy of his gestures, striking at one another as the Savage struck at his own rebellious flesh, or at that plump incarnation of turpitude writhing in the heather at his feet.   (source)
    atonement = making up for wrongs
  • The living in incessant noise was, to a frame and temper delicate and nervous like Fanny's, an evil which no superadded elegance or harmony could have entirely atoned for.   (source)
    atoned = made up
  • Does she want to atone for the sins of her money-ridden, wrecked, deplorable family?†   (source)
  • She seems to realize that she has something to atone for, but she's not sure exactly what it is.†   (source)
  • The time of obedience and atonement is past.†   (source)
  • No atonement for God, or novelists, even if they are atheists.†   (source)
  • And does your daughter wish to be initiated into the Church of the Final Atonement?†   (source)
  • Shall I atone for old sins or make some new ones?†   (source)
  • Do better in the future, and perhaps you can atone for your mistake.†   (source)
  • It was the only way to atone for her lack of faith.†   (source)
  • I dole them out equally, these offerings, these atonements, into the waiting hands of my friends.†   (source)
  • Beth now saw him as the kind, caring, and compassionate friend, someone who'd atoned for his sins.†   (source)
  • If Sue was making a gesture of atonement, she was doing it only at secondhand.†   (source)
  • You could do a horrible thing, and then spend your whole natural life trying to atone.†   (source)
  • What could she give in atonement for the life that, because of her actions, never could be lived?†   (source)
  • Yet I do, and I have no solution, no atonement to offer.†   (source)
  • He says the Mother spared me for some holy purpose, so I might atone for my sins.†   (source)
  • I have sinned and must atone, must parade my shame before the eyes of every beggar in the city.†   (source)
  • I figured out benefit three while we were watching Atonement in Jessica's bedroom.†   (source)
  • I am a sinner, with much and more to atone for.†   (source)
  • I have sinned most grievously, this is my atonement.†   (source)
  • There is a great difference between repentance and atonement.†   (source)
  • His niece had been subdued and submissive since her walk of atonement, thank the gods.†   (source)
  • Cersei wondered how he intended to atone for her.†   (source)
  • What atonement could his ravaged body make?†   (source)
  • What else did you do, to require so much atonement?†   (source)
  • He will not release you until you have atoned for your sins.†   (source)
  • "To this day, Jews and Christians still strive for 'atonement' …. although most of us have forgotten it is actually 'at-one-ment' we're seeking."†   (source)
  • But if Grace Marks repent at last, And for her sins atone, Then when she comes to die, she'll stand At her Redeemer's throne.†   (source)
  • And then if a night breeze blew, it did so timidly, as if to atone for the excesses of its daytime sibling.†   (source)
  • But whatever you may think of Dr. Jordan's professional opinion and I am well aware that his conclusions may be difficult to credit, for one not familiar with the practice of N euro-hypnosis, and who was not present at the events to which I allude — surely Grace Marks has been incarcerated for a great many years, more than sufficient to atone for her misdeeds.†   (source)
  • Did he earn his atonement?†   (source)
  • I haven'tdone anything to deserve this treatment, though it would have been easier to atone for if I had.†   (source)
  • At the end of Sophocles' Oedipus Rex, the king blinds himself, which is very definitely a kind of marking—of atonement, guilt, and contrition—and one that he will wear throughout the subsequent play, Oedipus at Colonus.†   (source)
  • The problem these fifty-nine years has been this: how can a novelist achieve atonement when, with her absolute power of deciding outcomes, she is also God?†   (source)
  • In the hills and hollows (not unlike the ones Taylor Greer must flee to breathe) hefinds a sense of roots, a sense of responsibility and justice, a capacity for atonement, and a generosity of spirit he never knew before.†   (source)
  • Surely you know that the Church of the Final Atonement has a deep and abiding interest in the world of Hyperion.†   (source)
  • Since it is our belief that the Final Atonement is drawing closer each day, this is of no little importance to us.†   (source)
  • According to the Shrike Cult gospel that the indigenies started, the Shrike is the Lord of Pain and the Angel of Final Atonement, come from a place beyond time to announce the end of the human race.†   (source)
  • We must advise you, however, that the formal name of our modest group is the Church of the Final Atonement and the entity whom the world so blithely calls… the Shrike… we refer to … if we take His name at all… as the Lord of Pain or, more commonly, the Avatar.†   (source)
  • And everywhere in Chronos Keep, signs of the Shrike Church's long occupation-atonement altars draped in red velvet, hanging and free-standing sculptures of the Avatar with polychrome steel for blades and bloodgems for eyes, more statues of the Shrike carved from the stone of narrow stairways and dark halls so that nowhere in the night would one be free of the fear of touching hands emerging from rock, the sharp curve of blade descending from stone, four arms enveloping in a final…†   (source)
  • And I wonder what became of her, what terrible fate befell the great Eugenia Spence because of my mother's sin, and if I could ever possibly be enough to atone for it.†   (source)
  • As Christ's servants we offer a refuge for people in need and a promise of atonement through prayer and the sacrament of baptism.†   (source)
  • He had spent many hours during his trip from Helgrind inventing it, agonizing over it, challenging himself to devise better alternatives, all in anticipation of the day he would attempt to atone for the harm he had caused Elva.†   (source)
  • By the blood I've spilled and the gore on my hands, I swear upon my father's grave I'll have you atone for what you've done by storming Helgrind with me.†   (source)
  • Is that why you and Brom trained me, to be nothing more than a weapon against Galbatorix so that I may atone for the villainy of my father?†   (source)
  • Not for her were the flaring, coarse, scant garments whose lack of seemliness was supposed to be atoned for by a profusion of cheap, sleazy trimming.†   (source)
  • How could he begin to atone?†   (source)
  • So really, watching Atonement with my friends made me realize how thankful I should have been to be the Duff.†   (source)
  • No matter how much I wanted to fool myself—no matter what I said about atoning for my past sins—the bottom line was that for the second time in my life, my actions were going to result in the death of Shay Bourne.†   (source)
  • Jerome argues with great force and eloquence that it is hardly typical of high-school-age adolescents to feel that they have to "atone" for anything-particularly for an offense against a peer who has been ostracized from existing cliques.†   (source)
  • But we-we, who must atone for the guilt of ability-we will work to support him as he orders, with his pleasure as our only reward.†   (source)
  • We wish we could atone for it.†   (source)
  • 'And Ralph wept and talked about atonement and I didn't and then he was dead and then I thought God had visited me with cancer; that He was turning my female parts into something as black and rotten as my sinning soul.†   (source)
  • Because lust caused the sin, I deemed that she should atone by living some part of her life with her lusts unrequited.†   (source)
  • I can't ask you to forgive me, we're far beyond such terms-and the only atonement I can offer you is the fact that I am happy.†   (source)
  • Those who dwell here are penitents, who seek to atone for their sins through contemplation, prayer, and silence.†   (source)
  • How do you atone for a life?†   (source)
  • To atone for that Tyrion made an attempt to teach her cyvasse, though he soon realized that was a lost cause.†   (source)
  • If it's any kind of atonement, which it isn't …. whatever I made you suffer, that's how I paid for it …. by knowing what I was doing to you and having to do it …. and waiting, waiting to ….†   (source)
  • So what good to speak of atonement?†   (source)
  • He was looking at her, as if he were seeing her body as she stood before him, even though his eyes were directed at her face, and his glance told her what form of atonement and surrender he was seeing in the future.†   (source)
  • Had he loved Myrcella more than her and betrayed his new princess to atone for his betrayal of the old?†   (source)
  • So now this sinner comes before you with a humble heart, shorn of secrets and concealments, naked before the eyes of gods and men, to make her walk of atonement.†   (source)
  • Atoned, I said.†   (source)
  • Don't speak of atonement, you have not hurt me, your mistakes came from your magnificent integrity under the torture of an impossible code-and your fight against it did not bring me suffering, it brought me the feeling I've found too seldom: admiration.†   (source)
  • Most had been household knights and hedge knights, but a handful were of high birth; younger sons, petty lords, old men wanting to atone for the old sins.†   (source)
  • This is your atonement.†   (source)
  • It does not matter who then becomes the profiteer on his renounced glory and tormented soul, a mystic God with some incomprehensible design or any passer-by whose rotting sores are held as some inexplicable claim upon him-it does not matter, the good is not for him to understand, his duty is to crawl through years of penance, atoning for the guilt of his existence to any stray collector of unintelligible debts, his only concept of a value is a zero: the good is that which is non-man.†   (source)
  • But by the time he raised his head-and before he saw the look of admiration in her eyes, the open look he had begged for, the look of forgiveness-he destroyed his single moment's atonement by adding in a voice of drawing-room sarcasm, "Apparently, the young man had no desire to work for the good of society or the welfare of science.†   (source)
  • "If you still want me to explain it, Mother," he said very quietly, "if you're still hoping that I won't be cruel enough to name what you're pretending not to know, then here's what's wrong with your idea of forgiveness: You regret that you've hurt me and, as your atonement for it, you ask that I offer myself to total immolation."†   (source)
  • A still, small, mean-spirited voice at the back of my mind told me that this largess was Nathan's way of atoning for the horrid attack he had made on my book a few nights before, when he had so dramatically and cruelly banished Sophie and me from his existence.†   (source)
  • I don't care a fig for all your romantics of atonement.†   (source)
  • You must atone to your fellow men before you can atone to God.†   (source)
  • Part 1 Chapter 2 Subsection 4 — Atonement with the Father.†   (source)
  • I felt that I had done something unclean, something for which I could never properly atone.†   (source)
  • Do you want me to die and atone for a suffering I never caused?†   (source)
  • He beholds the face of the father, understands—and the two are atoned.†   (source)
  • That is over, he told himself, and thou canst try to atone for it as for the others.†   (source)
  • Yet he knew of no way to atone for his guilt" he felt he had to act as he was acting.†   (source)
  • The familiar myth-motifs of the atonement inevitably follow.†   (source)
  • She was not such a fool as to try to atone to Lancelot for this, but she had taken a fancy for him as himself.†   (source)
  • The more sentimental were inclined to view that the black sheep of the Butler family had repented of his evil ways and was making an attempt to atone for his sins.†   (source)
  • Announced by violent trumpetings in the Protestant churches, the day of atonement dawned on a seasoned army of well drilled teetotalers.†   (source)
  • I chose, and I made to the fullest what atonement lay in my power for whatever injury I might have done in choosing, paying even more for the privilege of choosing as I chose than I might have been expected to, or even (by law) required.†   (source)
  • If the Lincoln legend gathers strength from its similarity to the Christian theme of vicarious atonement and redemption, there is still another strain in American experience that it represents equally well.†   (source)
  • But surely there will be an opportunity to atone for that because for a sin of that sort that so many bear, certainly some just relief will be devised.†   (source)
  • He felt that it was his atonement for any disloyalty he might have committed toward Wynand in the past.†   (source)
  • All the other things are forgiven or one had a chance to atone for them by kindness or in some decent way.†   (source)
  • We must deal here with a first wrong which, when committed by us, was understandable and inevitable" and then we must deal with the long trailing black sense of guilt stemming from that wrong, a sense of guilt which self-interest and fear would not let us atone.†   (source)
  • Therewith the two apparently opposite mythological adventures come together: the Meeting with the Goddess, and the Atonement with the Father.†   (source)
  • But I think any one doing it will be brutalized in time and I think that even though necessary, it is a great sin and that afterwards we must do something very strong to atone for it.†   (source)
  • Atonement (at-one-ment) consists in no more than the abandonment of that self-generated double monster—the dragon thought to be God (superego) and the dragon thought to be Sin (repressed id).†   (source)
  • The modern hero, the modern individual who dares to heed the call and seek the mansion of that presence with whom it is our whole destiny to be atoned, cannot, indeed must not, wait for his community to cast off its slough of pride, fear, rationalized avarice, and sanctified misunderstanding.†   (source)
  • …in Chapter II in six subsections: "The Road of Trials," or the dangerous aspect of the gods z "The Meeting with the Goddess" (Magna Mater), or the bliss of infancy regained 3 "Woman as the Temptress," the realization and agony of Oedipus 4 "Atonement with the Father"5 "Apotheosis" 6 "The Ultimate Boon" The return and reintegration with society, which is indispensable to the continuous circulation of spiritual energy into the world, and which, from the standpoint of the community, is…†   (source)
  • This tale is of particular interest, not because of its extreme absurdity, but because it clearly announces, in unconscious burlesque, every one of the major motifs of the typical life of the hero: virgin birth, quest for the father, ordeal, atonement with the father, the assumption and coronation of the virgin mother, and finally, the heavenly triumph of the true sons while the pretenders are heated hot.†   (source)
  • The triumph may be rcpresented as the hero's sexual union with the goddess-mother of the world (sacred marriage), his recognition by the father-creator (father atonement), his own divinization (apotheosis), or again—if the powers have remained unfriendly to him—his theft of the boon he came to gain (bride-theft, fire-theft); intrinsically it is an expansion of consciousness and therewith of being (illumination, transfiguration, freedom).†   (source)
  • She knew he meant, somehow, to atone for his wrong.†   (source)
  • His recent victory over Carrie seemed to atone for much he had endured during the last few days.†   (source)
  • Whatever his crimes, he has suffered something to atone for them.†   (source)
  • For your bad deeds, vicarious atonement, mercy without justice.†   (source)
  • That would be well, and would atone in some measure for the errors you have made.†   (source)
  • She had atoned for everything, by the sacrifice she had made of her life.†   (source)
  • He atoned for it by an excess of modesty.†   (source)
  • Deeply as I have sinned, I have led a life of martyrdom to atone for it.†   (source)
  • If you have ever aided him in evil, help us now and so atone.†   (source)
  • Atonement and confession-they could wait.†   (source)
  • He atones for being occasionally somewhat over-dressed, by being always absolutely over-educated.†   (source)
  • I am atoning for that, you see, by telling you the place and time of the meeting.†   (source)
  • Yet it was his duty to confess, to suffer public shame, and to make public atonement.†   (source)
  • May God accept my atonement in the preservation of these two existences!†   (source)
  • Is it my life they seek, to atone for my religion?†   (source)
  • All things are atoned for, all things are saved by love.†   (source)
  • A whole family blotted out to atone an accident!†   (source)
  • Remember, cannot nine years of my life atone for an instant….†   (source)
  • 'It is never too late,' said Rose, 'for penitence and atonement.'†   (source)
  • And if, this moment, came she in to me, How would I for the fault atonement render!†   (source)
  • … Killing her was atonement for forty sins.†   (source)
  • Alas, what would become of me who can only atone for evil by doing good?†   (source)
  • After which he murmured, "It will atone — it will atone.†   (source)
  • "No, I must atone for my sins, and I'm very comfortable on the box."†   (source)
  • Now has he made atonement to you — with his life!†   (source)
  • And I wish to make atonement to you as the one still remaining who has suffered a loss through me.†   (source)
  • Their society can afford no pleasure that will atone for such wretchedness as this!†   (source)
  • They must be atoned for, or there can be no harmony.†   (source)
  • And as for the murder, he will do all sorts of good deeds yet, to atone for it.†   (source)
  • Only, to atone for my sins, I'm bound to sit on the box.†   (source)
  • There is no sin for believers, their sin has been atoned for.†   (source)
  • One could see that the ideas which the mediaeval artist and the mediaeval peasant (who had survived to cook for us in the nineteenth century) had of classical and of early Christian history, ideas whose inaccuracy was atoned for by their honest simplicity, were derived not from books, but from a tradition at once ancient and direct, unbroken, oral, degraded, unrecognisable, and alive.†   (source)
  • Indeed all the ladies were uncertain, cowering, recovering, giggling, making tiny gestures of atonement or despair at all that was said, and alternately fondling the terrier or shrinking from him.†   (source)
  • I needed nothing more than this to feel the full force of Mrs. Grose's comparison, and, catching my pupil in my arms, covered her with kisses in which there was a sob of atonement.†   (source)
  • The goodwife had intended to feed this young tramp with broken victuals in a corner, like any other tramp or like a dog; but she was so remorseful for the scolding she had given him, that she did what she could to atone for it by allowing him to sit at the family table and eat with his betters, on ostensible terms of equality with them; and the King, on his side, was so remorseful for having broken his trust, after the family had been so kind to him, that he forced himself to atone for…†   (source)
  • The disgrace he had put upon them would now be removed; and in the light of that, his wasted life of the past, and its probable tragic end in future service as atonement changed their aspects.†   (source)
  • His days and works and thoughts could make no atonement for him, the fountains of sanctifying grace having ceased to refresh his soul.†   (source)
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