contriteness

Brown, who has filed grievances attempting to force the Raiders and Patriots to pay him about $40 million, seems to now hope that his latest contriteness will lead to another shot in the NFL.

He brought it off, the image of contriteness, the best he could— throughout the harshly trying next several weeks.

He made his confession with much clearness and contriteness, educated his children in the fear of God, strove to have all the people of his country baptized, and lived an exemplary life.

Your continued attempt to cast yourself as the victim, your lack of forthrightness, your lack of contriteness and your lack of humility, only serve to affirm you have not learned your lesson.

But it was before a court of feminine intuition that Bas Rowlett stood arraigned, and his specious contriteness fell flat as it came from his lips.