Contrite

China initially struck a contrite tone about the balloon, saying that it was a weather craft that had drifted off course.

Even once we’ve humbled ourselves, with contrite heart, and called Him Lord, we are still after all new at being born again, being born spiritually.

May we learn to have more humble and contrite hearts to God and to one another.

As the moment turned into the biggest PR own-goal of Fine Gael’s campaign, Harris first issued a contrite but mostly self-justifying statement on his Instagram account.

Mr. Coffman was contrite on Thursday as he told that story.

My client is contrite, remorseful and quite frankly, mentally distraught over what happened here.

Alexandra Mamo, for the defence, said any suggestion that S.K. was not contrite is simply not true.

Cora has been contrite when addressing the issue.

One might think that legislative Democrats would be contrite about brazenly carrying water for a public-sector union once again.

On Twitter, the opposition leader was more contrite.

Perhaps, after sleeping on the matter, and with the prospect of a resumed parliamentary session in front of them, there was a possibility that the Johnson government would adopt a humbler and more contrite tone in the light of day today.

The crowd-goading villain turned contrite everyman, Medvedev is a man of many faces so it came as little surprise when a reporter at a media conference on Friday accidentally called him by the wrong name.

But late Wednesday night on his radio program, he sounded contrite, betraying none of the defiance and bluster that has landed him on the president’s enemy’s list.

He was sentenced to five years of probation after telling the judge he was ashamed of his actions and contrite.

It’s clear that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau should have been more careful about accepting family vacations on a private island owned by the Aga Khan, as he himself acknowledged while offering a contrite apology.

Scott was contrite Thursday, saying, “I’ve come to the conclusion we made mistakes in replay review in the command center.

The church sounds contrite, and they got their $700 refunded.

The paper said Roeper was “contrite” about the purchases.

An earlier persecution had caused divisions over whether or how to accept back into the church contrite Christians who had apostatized under state threats, abuse, or torture.

He first made a very careful confession of his sins, with a contrite heart, and was affected even to the shedding of tears, I am told; then he received in Communion the most Sacred Body and Extreme Unction was administered to him.