contrition

My last experience of having the name hurled at me on the street shocked me not so much in the name-calling, but the absolute lack of contrition shown even when challenged.

But more emphasis is placed on Carson’s inevitable contrition, and his public admission that he “did not drink well,” than on the possibility that it might have been alcoholism, rather than a love of magic, that helped shape the very private life of the public man.

Nuno apologised for his reaction to the officials, including referee Rob Jones and fourth official Anthony Taylor, and had hoped his contrition would lead to leniency.

In a letter to the MSP, the committee also said he had misrepresented SNP policy and had shown “no contrition”.

In 1959, he denied Chessman clemency, saying he’d shown no contrition but rather “steadfast arrogance and contempt for society and its laws.”