sinner

Scorsese’s faith, and his battles with it, provide something of a leitmotif of the series — is he a saint or a sinner?

But the best twist is when you realize how much you’ve come to care about these characters, be they saints or sinners or a bit of both.

The preacher is one of the biggest sinners in Bakersfield, not merely because both he and Honey may as well be using the phone book as a checklist of conquests.

I was like, “So because I’m not perfect, you want me to not spread the word and to keep it to myself? We’re all sinners, bro.”

That is the well-worn path of sinners come to confession, or, in secular terms, Whittaker Chambers renouncing his allegiance to Stalin.