mea culpain a sentence
- "Mea culpa," said Richard.† (source)
- Mea culpa.† (source)
- Not only did she have to deliver the biggest mea culpa in NASA's history, every second of it would be remembered forever.† (source)
- Mea culpa, mea maxima culpa.† (source)
- Oh, he'd seen the angry one the other night and the mea culpa one just a little while ago, but he had no idea how she behaved under ordinary circumstances.† (source)
- Mea culpa, he said.† (source)
- I'm not blaming anyone for this state of affairs, mind you; nor merely crying mea culpa.† (source)
- "Mea culpa," agreed Panov, nodding.† (source)
- At the time I arrived, for example, the two most prominent writers being promoted were a retired World War II fleet admiral and an exceptionally flyblown ex-Communist stool pigeon whose ghostwritten mea culpa was doing middling well on the best-seller lists.† (source)
- Mea culpa.† (source)
- But Clary remembered him touching her face in a dark hallway in the Institute, remembered him whispering, Mea culpa, mea maxima culpa.† (source)
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- He thought, these are not the words; but the words kept ringing with his steps: Mea culpa—mea culpa—mea maxima culpa.† (source)
- Mea culpa, mea culpa! as the Pope of Rome says.† (source)
- Then she cried, "Ahem!" under cover of the MEA CULPA, striking her breast so vigorously that everybody, even the lady with the red cushion, turned round toward her.† (source)
- He beat his hand upon his breast, confessing: mea culpa.† (source)
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