Sentences with phrase «lesser transgressions»

Still, for those willing to overlook these lesser transgressions, the game delivers a healthy dose of intense action.

While eye for an eye is crude by today's standard, it was a step in the right direction at a time when people killed others for a lesser transgression.

Why is what ought to be a much lesser transgression in the eyes of Europhiles being held against him now?

By apologizing for this lesser transgression, I'm hoping my wife won't notice that I've forgotten to arrange for our daughter to wear pants.

Not exact matches

From the abstract: «After viewing a few organic foods, comfort foods, or control foods, participants who were exposed to organic foods volunteered significantly less time to help a needy stranger, and they judged moral transgressions significantly harsher than those who viewed nonorganic foods.»

If he had immediately come clean on what happened that night, it's possible that the «transgression» issue would not have surfaced — or if it did, the public likely would have paid less attention to it.

Regulatory action would be a more straightforward issue if the questioning hinged less on issuer complaints and suspicions and more on clear - cut examples of proxy adviser transgression.

At this stage no question was raised as to man's ability to refrain from transgression if he so desired, and there was, in consequence, no conscious need of inner assistance, much less of interior cleansing by the Spirit of God.

Even without taking under account the evident, constant battle between both characters» «little angels and demons,» there are indeed several religious images throughout «Changing Lanes» and my guess is that Michell tried to make a not so subtle parallel between both characters escalating wrong - doings and Christ's dying for our transgressions, not unlike the ones depicted here, only for them to end the film by actually achieving a redemption of sorts similar to Christ's resurrection, which for both characters in the film seemed so elusive throughout this day, even in moments such as the one when the movie manages to casually place the character played by Affleck (a non-Catholic, I think) inside a confessional with a priest, no less.

And although Farhadi has peppered the proceedings with a handful of striking sequences - eg Emad confronts the man responsible for a transgression against his wife - The Salesman's pervasively erratic, meandering diminishes the potential impact of its third - act revelations and, in the end, confirms the movie's place as just another potentially intriguing premise squandered by Farhadi's less - than - focused modus operandi.

It feels old - fashioned in an appealing way, and if it occasionally feels less purposeful than it ought to be, it is continually interesting in the way it displays secrecy and transgression.

The exhibition sets new commissions reacting to the movement alongside existing international works that explore major conceits of La Movida less directly including freedom and excess, hedonism and transgression.

Mr. Violette's black drum set and satiny black - and - white, X-raylike drawings of Kurt Cobain speak less to the adolescent glamour of rock culture than to the bankruptcy of mass - marketed transgression and to rock's self - destructive side.

On the other hand his explanation of events is consistent and if true has plausibility, and makes even his modest transgression even less serious.

On the other hand, Tara isn't committed to Bill and doesn't have any motivation to keep the relationship going (she also doesn't have the positive biases that Sookie does), so she's less forgiving of Bill's transgressions.

The illegal profit subscale described the most severe ethical transgressions, and for both men and women, the secure participants were less apt than the other participants to report a willingness to transgress.