repentant

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Marcin, initially as malignant as Hook and as blinkered as Torvald, eventually grows as repentant and noble as Oberon in “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” which will co-star a certain native of Toruń as Titania.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 3, 2026

Some had arrived at Quinto’s page searching for a repentant statement in response to the public backlash.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 3, 2024

Stories range from the title piece, about the death of his mother; to an account of a filmmaker in search of painkillers on a bank holiday weekend to the tale of a repentant vampire.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 29, 2024

"An insight from this study was that forgiveness-seeking included humble owning of responsibility for wrongdoing against another person and repentant relational repair through confession, apology, restitution and evidence of change," Witvliet wrote to Salon.

From Salon • Sep. 24, 2023

He watched in amazement as the statue of the queen raised her arms and welcomed back her repentant husband and grownup daughter.

From "The Marvels" by Brian Selznick