But Cersei seems to be seeking comfort — or absolution?
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In 2012, Hitman: Absolution provided a much more linear gameplay.
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Pop seemed to regard violence as a kind of absolution.
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But she remains assured that absolution was the correct response.
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As the conversation wound down, the subject turned to absolution.
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Perhaps there is a degree of collective absolution in universal error.
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It actually speaks to an absolution of the country providing electricity.
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The hotel provided organic Absolution-brand soap, shampoo and face cream.
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If he wants absolution, they say, he needs to show contrition.
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Texas should at least ask the rest of America for absolution.
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It's important not to overlook that a reckoning has an endgame: absolution.
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On Absolution, for instance, the track list was up in the air.
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His first novel, "Absolution," investigated the afterlife of apartheid in South Africa.
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I can even understand abdication, which is its own form of absolution.
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Acknowledging this is by no means an act of exaltation or absolution.
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Like Catholic confession, it's not about exploring feelings; it's about seeking absolution.
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The guilt that eats at these characters resists easy closure or absolution.
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"There's a difference between forgiveness and the absolution of guilt," he told CNN.
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Don't you sometimes long for absolution that the world will never give you?
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Some will argue that Gibson's creative abilities are enough to warrant his absolution.
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" She adds: "These people were looking for absolution that I just couldn't give.
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The gift of absolution is given within a tribe, and rarely outside it.
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Absolution, however, is not what the White House has conferred on the Kushners.
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Some, skeptical of Congress's sincerity, worry that payments would offer politicians premature absolution.
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There's an irradiated spirit to everything: an impurity that can feel like absolution.
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Previously, only bishops and designated special confessors were able to grant absolution for abortions.
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The saving grace, the hoped-for absolution, fans believed, would arrive in album form.
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"I don't seek absolution, but I do seek forgiveness when it is forthcoming," he said.
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"I gave collective absolution, as the Catholic Church authorizes me," Fournier said in the profile.
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And I think that's new for us, even when looking at Hitman: Absolution as well.
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Hutcherson: I think that when we recorded Absolution, we didn't really have a big plan.
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It resists perfect absolution of Black characters who have been held back by systemic oppression.
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It also appears that he doesn't care about admitting to making mistakes and seeking absolution.
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It certainly addresses the commission's finding that the easy availability of absolution contributes to reoffending.
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Although the novel will never grant him absolution, the process of atonement does finally begin.
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But Lenin's flexibility in the early 1920s can't provide absolution for his broader historical legacy.
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" Yang even offered public absolution to Shane Gillis, the comedian who was fired from "S.
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No, absolution would come only from a higher power: the angel atop our Christmas tree.
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But like any classic tragedy, this tale offered absolution in the form of long-overdue legislation.
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She ends the episode going to Priest's church and trying to find some personal, private absolution.
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Yet he wins the absolution of the town priest in return for a few gold coins.
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Donna Brazile, the former interim chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee, is in search of absolution.
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Is this a hero's trek towards sacred meaning, or a madman's journey to an empty absolution?
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Smearing Clinton was their ticket to power, and smearing her will be their ticket to absolution.
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And, because they know they need absolution for their own worst motives, we forgive those, too.
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Establish authority as a historian of the weird and offer sweeping absolution for various human foibles.
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New on Munchies: Snakes on a Plate The Contracts mode from Absolution returns for 2016's Hitman.
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And the opportunity for grace, normal or otherwise, can feel like absolution in an often cruel world.
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Demons and the gaping "maw of hell" could illustrate a fear of death, or dying without absolution.
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He said that the absolution granted by any priest would also trigger the simultaneous lifting of excommunication.
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However, this new take on Hitman addresses many of the shortcomings of the series' previous game, Absolution.
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But at least religions offer people a path from self-reflection and confession to atonement and absolution.
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What white people are really asking for when they demand forgiveness from a traumatized community is absolution.
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They want absolution from their silence in the face of all manner of racism, great and small.
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Celeste goes to Dr. Reisman while Perry is out of town for a mix of absolution and clarity.
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I feel like it's a form of sort of absolution, and that's what music can do for you.
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So the studio was very much re-learning how to make a Hitman game, since Absolution wasn't it.
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"Forgive" might be putting it strongly, but the president gave Ms. Roby an important kind of political absolution.
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So absolution, yes, I can't get around it; these plays may soothe liberal guilt, even while engaging it.
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Op-ed: Hug is not absolution for racism "You are truly a model of good parenting," he said.
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Under canon law, abortion brings automatic excommunication unless the person receiving or performing it confesses and receives absolution.
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So absolution, yes, I can't get around it; these plays may soothe liberal guilt, even while engaging it.
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They want absolution from the racism that infects us all even though forgiveness cannot reconcile America's racist sins.
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Sexual harassment training videos are a mandatory embarrassment for most employees and awkward absolution for employers. Terrible. Cheesy. Outdated.
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One of the most noticeable things about Absolution versus Hunted is how much better you guys got between albums.
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The recruit's fear grows more intense, and the need for absolution more urgent, with each thump of the jugular.
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His absolution of Saudi Arabia of any consequences for the killing of Khashoggi drew reactions from Republicans like Sens.
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Local priests granted "general absolution," a religious term referring to the forgiveness of all sins in times of crisis.
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"We can only accept absolution in the trials — trials which should never be held," he said in his speech.
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That has in turn enraged Republicans, who have happily embraced what they call Mr. Mueller's absolution of Mr. Trump.
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Mr. Trump said he was "honored" by that report, which was released last month, and saw it as absolution.
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Square Enix has revealed that 30 million contracts have been played to date on Absolution, so they're bringing it back.
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Other than Lutherans, I don't believe Christians usually take confession and only Catholic priests can offer absolution for any sin.
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If this isn't a desperate attempt for absolution, why would he seek treatment for crimes he claims he didn't commit?
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In the past, only a bishop or a designated special confessor could grant absolution for an abortion and lift excommunication.
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Does Australia hold the key to what they're looking for, or is it another diversion on their path towards absolution?
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"Looking solely to the Olympic Games for motivational transcendence is like looking to the confessional booth for absolution," she said.
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Every April, the metal masses descend upon Het Patronaat, now Roadburn Festival's most prized venue, in hopes of finding absolution.
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Are the beans he may spill about Trump to be considered absolution for the sins he committed concerning Clinton's email?
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During that period, women were able to seek absolution or forgiveness for abortions from ordinary priests rather than only bishops.
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Meanwhile the ghoster gets to own up to their wrongdoings, face the consequences, and earn absolution by learning from past mistakes.
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Absolution and atonement require contrition and remorse for the harm caused, and that has been lacking in most of these cases.
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Only the completion of these four processes makes the absolution rational, otherwise the culture of sinning is sure to continue happily.
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People want hope and absolution instead of working to destroy a system that still holds black people last in almost everything.
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Iran's senior ayatollah privately urged SAVAK, the Shah's notorious police agency, to assassinate Khomeini, even offering a fatwah for Islamic absolution.
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With an "Instinct Mode," which highlighted items and persons of interest, Absolution wanted to put you behind the eyes of 113.
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Martin's need for absolution is another weight she is forced to carry, as if his shame were equivalent to her violation.
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To the Editor: Is Julius Krein's acknowledgment that it was a mistake to support Donald Trump's candidacy a plea for absolution?
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In parts of the world, observant Catholics who have sought absolution for abortions have faced delays at times, or even rejection.
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Whether this awakening is complete and whether the film's final notes of absolution are fully earned are matters worth arguing about.
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We are exhausted by the prospect of having to stand up on a pedestal and grant absolution to those who are too arrogant to even demand absolution to begin with, as Weinstein made it abundantly clear he was in his flippant apology to The New York Times, which weirdly name-dropped both Jay-Z and NRA president Wayne LaPierre.
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The answer is that Hitman, 212 version, is somewhere between the two points, but a lot closer to Blood Money than Absolution.
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She wants my absolution for her sake," Ivana writes, adding that she's "doing just fine with my resentment, thank you very much.
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All of which explained why Nick Nurse, the Raptors' first-year coach, sought no absolution for taking advantage of a wounded opponent.
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Unlike the Christian God, whose absolution serves as evidence of his faultlessness, Obatala does not grant us charity because we are imperfect.
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He mentioned how many women he had put in top jobs, presenting the roll call as a counterweight to — or absolution for?
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On Monday absolution was bestowed on him, at last, with a flourish: The team gave him a bejeweled 2016 World Series ring.
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In "Passage," a wizened Ethiopian man ends a pilgrimage for absolution, while a Connecticut woman with emphysema extols the value of prayer.
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This hurts the show, both depriving it of desperately needed depth and giving inadvertent absolution to the flaws of modern true crime.
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In the end, Everyman is only able to achieve absolution and be cleansed of his sins by repenting before God and flagellating himself.
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First he seeks absolution and encouragement from Jon Snow, who gives him the minimal admission that doing the right thing can be hard.
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On October 5, her husband requested that a priest come to her house to administer last rites, including the absolution of her sins.
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In the past, only a bishop or a designated special confessor of a diocese could grant absolution for an abortion and lift excommunication.
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Milk behaved like the privileged hot guy that he is, going to Kennedy in half his makeup, and wanting absolution for their fight.
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No one who so proudly wears the mark of dishonesty and defamation possesses the power to grant the stamps of legitimacy and absolution.
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We'd ended up in Thetford forest, and hidden amongst the tall pines was my Friday night ecstasy absolution, a party called Brains-Kan.
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The two elderly figures spent several hours together, Buber evidently seeking dialogue; Heidegger, some sort of public absolution from a distinguished Jewish thinker.
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She displays exquisite insights into the inner lives of those involved, the erasure of shameful histories, and the stresses of absolution without accountability.
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Hovering above the rancour was the question of whether Mr West could repeat the trick from 2010 and find absolution through his next release.
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Previously in many places in the world, even if the absolution was granted by a priest, it was the bishop's task to lift that.
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Within minutes, this act of rugged commitment to raving had drawn a crowd of hundreds, packed tight under the rubbery absolution of the tarp.
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But, one could argue, is it not necessary for a person to have the intention of never sinning again in order to receive absolution?
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If Theon does perish, it will be a fitting end for the Iron Islander ,and his final act of absolution after years of traumatic penance.
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It no longer needs Europe as absolution for the second world war, and it has become too big to be just one power among many.
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"I am not who I once was," Diaz wrote in the New Yorker confessional, which was more of a step toward recovery than any absolution.
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Hitman (that's the title of the 2016 release) switches the emphasis from story, which was arguably the focus of Hitman: Absolution, to inventive murder sandboxes.
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Asked whether he hoped for presidential absolution, Mr. Kushner said, "I would prefer not to have a pardon" because it would trigger only further publicity.
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Neeson found absolution, he claims, via a confession to his Catholic priest and through daily power walks that helped him restore his peace of mind.
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But the entire hour is marked by people trying desperately to find either logic or absolution as the seventh anniversary of the Departure looms large.
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Many in the White House seem braced for bad news -- which is odd considering President Donald Trump has already claimed complete absolution from the special counsel.
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If he discovers robot parts, he might be horrified to find that his existence has been a lie, or he might find absolution from his sins.
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Francis had already temporarily granted the power to all priests to give what is known as "sacramental absolution" for abortion during the Holy Year, from Dec.
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"With Absolution, we tried to do something about that by making the game a little bit more simple, making the levels a little smaller," Elverdam explained.
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As part of this familiar ritual of corporate self-absolution, Google also symbolically "fired" some of the best-known YouTubers it had paid to produce videos.
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But the payoff, starting somewhere near the midpoint, is a journey of absolution astonishing in its ability to quell the throbbing clamor — but not the tension.
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Neither blame nor absolution entices him as, again and again (eased by Colin Rich's masterly editing), he coaxes forth the perfect, shining moment that speaks volumes.
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The new abilities made Absolution feel more like an action game, and the extra on-screen and heads-up elements stripped Hitman of its typically elegant aesthetic.
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I know of no point during his entire life where he has apologized for, repented of, or sought absolution for any of his racist actions or comments.
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But the impact such formal absolution will have on the veterans of these murky wars and the society that they are working to rejoin will be lasting.
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Shawn had never set foot in this theater, which is currently presenting "Everything Is Wonderful" Chelsea Marcantel's bruising story of rage and absolution within an Amish community.
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Lee "Chappy" Chapman may have reached a personal nadir in his life as a lookalike, but he has found absolution in the arms of a sympathetic multitude.
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RULES OF ORIGIN MEANS HOW MUCH GOODS CAN COME IN FROM COUNTRIES OUTSIDE NAFTA AND YET GET ALL THE BENEFITS OF ABSOLUTION FROM TARIFFS THAT COME WITH NAFTA.
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I talk about this a lot with other black writers: It always feels like people are looking for absolution from me, which I find to be very unfair.
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Other leading Catholic clerics around the world have resigned for turning a blind eye to sexual abuse; others were convicted of abuse themselves; and some vaguely sought absolution.
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It's a stylistically diverse work of often-fraught subject matter (self-destruction and loss are common themes) that finds absolution in goosebump-inducing harmonies and slow burning orchestration.
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I was in the midst of a mini-breakup and suffering from some acute loneliness, throwing out drunken prayers to the Gods of mirth and madness for absolution.
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The countless thousands who have crammed social media feeds with variations on the theme "We are all Greta Thunberg" are seeking an absolution that Thunberg is not offering.
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These two don't exactly solve anything — they spend most of their time complaining, discussing responsibility and absolution and trying to manage their lives back in Helsinki by phone.
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Or, at least, not so much like the maligned Hitman: Absolution that came out six years later and is, iOS titles aside, the immediate predecessor to this forthcoming entry?
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I used to tell my mother that I didn't have to go because I was only confessing my sins and asking for absolution from a human, someone like me.
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I'll remember Theon getting absolution, and Lyanna sacrificing herself to kill a zombie giant in a deeply symbolic if very sad moment, the smallest warrior felling the largest foe.
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I often feel that the desire for an instant solution among some of the more business-minded folks who read the book is actually a desire for premature absolution.
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By the end of last week, Trump stood on the verge of securing his votes of absolution by Senate Republicans who didn't even want to hear new witness testimony.
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She now keeps Trump, who is keen for a swift trial and acquittal that he can brand as absolution, fretting for the entirety of his seasonal break in Florida.
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If anyone needed another reason to hate the Citizens United decision, the court's five vote majority that essentially gave constitutional absolution to buying and selling access is one more.
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But Democrats are furious that Barr has given Trump the political framing of the report and the chance to claim, wrongly in their view, that it grants him absolution.
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As soon as Bozak upended Acciari, he held his palms out to his sides, as if expecting a whistle, acknowledging his mistake and pleading for absolution all at once.
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"If I offer[ed] Flynt absolution," Steinem wrote, "he [would] give $21970 million toward the passage of the Equal Rights Amendment," the proposed constitutional amendment guaranteeing equal rights for women.
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But, as she said following up that admission, and with zero air of that old Clinton condescension, "you'll read my confession and my request for absolution," in her forthcoming book.
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In less than two years, the doomed rock 'n' roll band has captivated masses of metal and rock fans after the release of their full-length debut, Absolution, in 13.
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Not sure that whatever Comey actually said -- and we have yet to hear from him -- is exactly the sort of full-scale absolution that Trump is casting it as. 4.
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It's a censure of the anti-Black system that Academy voters must see amplified in the age of Trump, and their absolution for their role in it for decades now.
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Tulsi GabbardTulsi GabbardBiden's lead atop Democratic field slips: poll Gabbard stokes fears among Democrats Trump Jr. attacks Vindman: 'Total absolution if you are a leftist veteran' MORE (D-Hawaii) and Sen.
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Tulsi GabbardTulsi GabbardBiden's lead atop Democratic field slips: poll Gabbard stokes fears among Democrats Trump Jr. attacks Vindman: 'Total absolution if you are a leftist veteran' MORE (D-Hawaii), Miramar, Fla.
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According to a ranking done by Transparency International, Austria is in 16 place on the index of corruption—so although we're not doing too badly, we're still pretty far from absolution.
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His words could hardly have offered more absolution to the House of Saud especially since the President also recycled Saudi talking points that Khashoggi was a member of the Muslim Brotherhood.
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Additionally, we demand an apology from Hauser & Wirth and the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego for their promotion of fascism, not as absolution, but as the first step towards reparations.
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This is a man who only seems fully alive when fists connect with flesh, a brute whose baptism scene feels like a triumph, but whose absolution feels a long way away.
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Among other things, the painter had been deeply nourished by the sea, the constant emotional scouring of Ostend's beaches by North Sea breakers, and the daily absolution offered by the tides.
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Last year, Pope Francis indefinitely extended to all priests the ability to grant absolution for abortions, seen as a historic move for the church, which has been decidedly against the practice.
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PERHAPS THE HASSLE of living with difficult art is, above all, an attempt to find absolution from the sins of the art market, and of materialism generally, by embracing the esoteric.
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The Protestant north had a rigid and moralistic attitude towards debt while the Catholic south, with its culture of confession and absolution, took a more happy-go-lucky view, he once said.
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Both companies seem okay backing away from this case for now, but Match seems to want to get some absolution out of it, especially if it'll benefit the company's lawsuit against Bumble.
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To those of us who are practicing Christians, the capacity for redemption is what gives human life meaning -- and we limit our own capacity for absolution when we deny it to others.
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The complaint alleges one of the boys was molested in various church rectories while he served as an altar boy and was made to confess the abuse to Poulson later for absolution.
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An indictment against 12 Russian intelligence officers announced Friday by the US Justice Department ought to make it that much more difficult for Putin to receive absolution from Trump on election meddling.
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Michael McCullough, a professor of psychology at the University of Miami, said grudges, and the desire for revenge or absolution, are directly related to goal-seeking and the desire to satiate a craving.
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Owing to a recent blunder, their mother Patti's considerable guilt yields a version of Tommy as the priest she hoped he'd become, a wholesome figure to whom she looks for absolution and forgiveness.
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Tulsi GabbardTulsi GabbardBiden's lead atop Democratic field slips: poll Gabbard stokes fears among Democrats Trump Jr. attacks Vindman: 'Total absolution if you are a leftist veteran' MORE (D-Hawaii) stokes fears among Democrats.
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"'That dreadful apology' has already changed the narrative, reassured those of our petitioners who might choose to keep petitioning and brought us absolution from most moderates," she wrote, according to the Yale newspaper.
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There was a statement that the Iranian government wants to basically say "We really weren&apost involved" and Hillary Clinton was unwilling to give that sort of absolution and the deal fell apart.
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On the last Saturday, under the neon, glowing absolution of La Santanera's now-iconic DJ Jesus sign, Camea dropped a late challenger for best techno set of the week at Alphahouse's party downstairs.
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He sought absolution for Flynn, notwithstanding the fact that Flynn misled the public, compromised national security, and changed U.S. policy on behalf of a foreign government—which he served as an unregistered agent.
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In his first big role in the 1988 movie, "Above the Law," Mr. Seagal played a former C.I.A. agent and in one of his latest films, "Mercenary: Absolution," he played a contract killer.
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VATICAN CITY — The Roman Catholic Church will allow priests throughout the world to grant absolution for abortion, the Vatican said on Monday, making permanent a policy that Pope Francis announced a year ago.
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Bishops could already delegate the authority to grant absolution to parish priests — and many bishops in the United States had done so — but the practice varied widely by country and even by diocese.
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Tulsi GabbardTulsi GabbardBiden's lead atop Democratic field slips: poll Gabbard stokes fears among Democrats Trump Jr. attacks Vindman: 'Total absolution if you are a leftist veteran' MORE (D-Hawaii) leading with 4 percent. Sen.
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MARGARET MCGIRRGreenwich, Connecticut I appreciate The Economist taking on this issue, but the idea that "#MeToo needs a path towards atonement or absolution" is a bit tone deaf ("#MeToo, one year on", September 27th).
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We misinterpret material renunciation, austere aesthetics and blank, emptied spaces as symbols of capitalist absolution, when these trends really just provide us with further ways to serve our impulse to consume more, not less.
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The Night Of Back in my recap for the sixth episode, I speculated that we could be headed toward an "In a Lonely Place" ending, in which a man's innocence does not equal absolution.
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Two turkeys, named Tater and Tot, will get the ritual absolution and move on to a nice home at Virginia Tech, even though only one of them will become the official national Thanksgiving turkey.
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It generated almost as many thinkpieces about tourism, insensitivity, and cultural appropriation as it did essays from other women who shared Gilbert's yearning: for escapism, for absolution, for romantic freedom, for a brand-new life.
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I got into the classic assassination franchise late, having started back in 2012 with Hitman: Absolution, and I was enamored by the intricate level design and the borderline absurd level of replay value and variation.
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CHRIS DALY Yucaipa, California I appreciate The Economist taking on this issue, but the idea that "#MeToo needs a path towards atonement or absolution" is a bit tone deaf ("#MeToo, one year on", September 29th).
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I don't mean the men's excessive fondness for whiskey; that's only a provisional escape from that other, greater addiction: the family members' angry interdependence on one another, and their unassuageable hunger for blame and absolution.
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In a way, this is a secular last rite that we are imagining; confession and absolution, the admission of wrongs and forgiveness, church mingling with therapy to make a proper ending out of pointless loss.
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Whitney, an abstract artist, recognizes the link between race and art cannot be reduced to a formula, however much mainstream culture and its desire for a quick solution and painless absolution might wish for it.
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Paul Midden, PhD, is the author of Absolution and the retired founding CEO of the St. Louis Consultation Center, a treatment center committed to providing psychological and spiritual care for clergy and vowed men and women.
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Anselm Kiefer's response has been to shoulder — and perhaps even to show off, as a means of absolution — the burden of the great German tragedy, in canvases large enough to crush any delicate-fingered string quartet.
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Rep. Tulsi GabbardTulsi GabbardBiden's lead atop Democratic field slips: poll Gabbard stokes fears among Democrats Trump Jr. attacks Vindman: 'Total absolution if you are a leftist veteran' MORE is accused of cozying up to Wall Street.
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Boehner's a great guy to have a drink with, and I'm sure he mows a mean lawn, but he's entitled to no more absolution than any other powerful official who loses sight of the public interest.
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The objective aspects of Catholic teaching on marriage — the supernatural reality of the first marriage, the metaphysical reality of sin and absolution, the sacramental reality of the eucharist itself — do not just recede; they essentially disappear.
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Despite the mugging from both confessor and confessed, the exchange feels forced and comes across as a bid to lighten the gloom; if anything, it turns a feverish plea for absolution into a bit of vaudeville.
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Thus far though, those so called "award-worthy" characters have been circumscribed in their scope: They're dramatic, soul-searching roles, more about repentance and a desire for absolution than a positive and joyful celebration of sexuality.
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Without this construct, for example, it is conceivable that Kevin Hart's end-run campaign to return as an Oscars host—after old homophobic tweets were resurrected—by proxy absolution from his celebrity friends, may have worked.
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We know in experience what Tocqueville saw so seemingly long ago, that we're increasingly isolated and thrown back on our own resources, shut up in our weeping hearts, and we blame ourselves, and we want absolution.
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"After we shipped [the previous entry in the series] Hitman: Absolution, we had to look back and think, 'honestly, we're not the biggest development studio out there," Hitman developer IO Interactive's studio head Hannes Seifert told me.
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He reached out to divorced and remarried Catholics and to lapsed priests, allowed the substitution of general absolution of sins for individual confessions, gave women parish leadership roles and declined to condemn birth control and premarital sex.
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It features the next-gen polish that we saw in Absolution, while the large levels filled with flexible opportunities for sneaky kills return from Blood Money, albeit with a whole lot more non-player characters to interact with.
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UK-based cultural critic Kate Maltby noticed that while formerly despised male characters such as Theon Greyjoy and Jaime Lannister were having their reputations redeemed on the HBO show, there seemed to be no such absolution for women.
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Tulsi GabbardTulsi GabbardBiden's lead atop Democratic field slips: poll Gabbard stokes fears among Democrats Trump Jr. attacks Vindman: 'Total absolution if you are a leftist veteran' MORE (D-Hawaii) are scheduled to speak at the event on Sunday.
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I don't really believe in absolution and I'm just about out of hope, but I wonder if there's at least the possibility of a future that isn't hopelessly marred by these sins, for lack of a better word.
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In fact, even though it's meant that some of my favorite series have rocky years (Hitman: Absolution, I'm looking at you), all said, I can't help but feel that this sort of re-invention is healthy and necessary.
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The CEO apology tour, in which an embattled chief executive goes on a quest for absolution, has become routine, with Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg and Starbucks's Kevin Johnson recently marching from network to network to win back lost trust.
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Meanwhile, staring Scott right in the face is Hank, a father who seems to have stepped right off Marvel's bad dad assembly line, effectively turning his daughter into the solution and absolution he seeks for his wife's disappearance.
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The "Ninety-Five Theses" was a response to the Catholic Church's practice of selling "INDULGENCES," where Catholics could purchase absolution from sins, among other forms of corruption that he believed were happening in the church at the time.
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For those of us who won't get to experience the absolution of celestial darkness, music can have a similar effect: It can completely consume and subsume and put us in touch with both our inner and outer selves.
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Despite her own private misgivings about the church and God — "I don't believe in absolution, eternal life, your mercy" — there is little doubt in Sister Johanna's mind, when she's originally investigating the abuse allegations, that they are true.
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This means some friendly headlines for Facebook, of course, but there's something unsettling about how the company is treating regulation as absolution for its many privacy foibles (to say nothing of the algorithmic black boxes or shadow profile system).
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Tulsi GabbardTulsi GabbardBiden's lead atop Democratic field slips: poll Gabbard stokes fears among Democrats Trump Jr. attacks Vindman: 'Total absolution if you are a leftist veteran' MORE (D-Hawaii) drops her congressional race to focus on her presidential bid.
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Having once put their hopes in an opaque bureaucratic process, they are now approaching their shot at absolution as if marketing a hot start-up: scanning their network of acquaintances for influence and gauging degrees of separation from celebrity.
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Even without that thumbs-down, you can sense what a particularly perverse fantasy this is: that absolution resides in a neutered black man needing a white guy not only to protect and serve him, but to love him, too.
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Naturally, they decide this means she needs to fix it and offer up some solutions along with an absolution for how "utterly disastrously" her life has turned out because they were bad parents and they're not afraid to admit it.
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Here is how Tuchman described the ritual of kappores in the catalogue of the 1968 LACMA retrospective: On the morning of the eve of Yom Kippur — the Jewish Day of Atonement — there occurred in the shtetl a ritual of absolution.
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IO Interactive, the developer behind the assassination sandbox series, decided to combine the best efforts of 2012's more linear but highly polished Hitman: Absolution with the open-world spirit and heavy experimentation of the series' first three major entries.
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Still, anything less than absolution by Mueller would also deprive Trump of the chance to rid himself of the Russia cloud that could still cause complications in his 2020 reelection race and is certain to help history define his presidency.
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New York (CNN)Hillary Clinton bluntly said Wednesday that she doesn't forgive the men and women who now say they regret not voting in the 2016 election, telling CNN that she offers no absolution for their failure to get involved.
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Back then, some said that with a few twists of the dial and a better-educated class of consumers, service work could be remade into something more careerlike, offering employees structure, predictability and dignity — and wealthier customers a form of absolution.
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The chain features low monthly membership fees (most range from $9.95 to $24.95, depending on which options a member chooses) with group exercise classes that include workouts like cardio tai box, bosu bootcamp and one called absolution, which focuses on core strengthening.
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So far it seems this Hitman is unburdened with the same focus on story that crippled its predecessor, Hitman: Absolution, a game that somehow decided the series' main selling point was a character defined by a lack of emotion and easily forgettable features.
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However, the 9/11 Commission report and the joint agency memo only offer blanket absolution of official Saudi involvement and do not reference the questions detailed in the 113 pages surrounding the phone numbers that indirectly seem to link Bandar to al Qaeda.
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If that fell short of a pronouncement of absolution, there was still a sense in some quarters that Mr. Cuomo, while undeniably damaged and even personally pained by the accusations against friends and associates, had, by comparison, dodged the worst of it.
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Tulsi GabbardTulsi GabbardBiden's lead atop Democratic field slips: poll Gabbard stokes fears among Democrats Trump Jr. attacks Vindman: 'Total absolution if you are a leftist veteran' MORE (D-Hawaii), was a Manchurian candidate who was carrying Russian water downstream into the 28500 presidential campaign.
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So you just hope to be conscious all the time, so you won't hurt anyone, and you learn how to stop asking for things: stop asking for approval, stop asking for absolution, stop asking for forgiveness in advance of the stupid thing you're gonna say.
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Tulsi GabbardTulsi GabbardBiden's lead atop Democratic field slips: poll Gabbard stokes fears among Democrats Trump Jr. attacks Vindman: 'Total absolution if you are a leftist veteran' MORE (D-Hawaii) as the final current House member in the presidential race, and Gabbard is going all in.
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From the giant, gritty riffs that open "Torn Asunder" on Absolution to Pendergast's newly conquered falsetto on the end "From Ruin," this a band that has found its footing, grown together as friends and a band, and developed a powerful sound of their own.
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The President's pardon of the Hammonds will be seen in the minds of the far right militia movement as justification and absolution for the armed takeover of the land, a former law enforcement official who was involved in the Oregon militia standoff tells CNN.
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As things continue to get colossally worse, it's more important than ever to be honest with ourselves about what is little more than attempts at personal absolution, what is just allowing marketing to prey on our collective guilt, and what is best for the planet.
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He never returned to active service, but over the next three decades he became more vital to the department by walking — or rather, rolling, in a wheelchair — an unconventional beat that saw him carry his message of absolution from high school students to the pope.
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In 1980, when Ronald Reagan invoked the phrase in Philadelphia, Mississippi—where three civil-rights workers had been murdered, in 1964—he was offering a kind of absolution, if not for racial violence then for the principle that had been used to justify it.
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It's a joy to listen in as these two formidable churchmen joust over sharply different views of Catholicism, admit spiritual doubts, joke about the Beatles, seek absolution from each other and end up drinking beer together, just two old popes watching soccer on a couch.
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Disturbingly stoic, violent and seeking absolution he's not sure he needs, the mob killer Frank Sheeran allowed Robert De Niro to deliver a majestic, subtle performance in ''The Irishman'' that has the feel of a crowning achievement — and for reasons that go beyond the screen.
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This is how I wound up granting absolution to low-grade idiots and the worn-out women who turn them over in bed at night and, at dawn, go home to their own families, try not to think of ghosts wasting away in this world.
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Tulsi GabbardTulsi GabbardBiden's lead atop Democratic field slips: poll Gabbard stokes fears among Democrats Trump Jr. attacks Vindman: 'Total absolution if you are a leftist veteran' MORE (D-Hawaii) has some advice for my family's former party that Democrats really should consider if they want to win.
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The video is backed by the aggressive rock stylings of Incubus ("Absolution Calling") and shows scenes of the SpaceX team in Hawthorne, California, celebrating both the launch and return of the Falcon 9, which serve to remind us of just how special these accomplishments really are.
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Letters To the Editor: Re "Hillary Clinton's Absolution," by Frank Bruni (column, May 7): Ever since Hillary Clinton came onto the national political scene, pundits and columnists have been asking variations of the question Frank Bruni poses: Why can't we see more of the "real" Hillary?
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It weaponizes quiet, embracing the introspection and absolution that have themed the project—which has long featured a rotating cast of members, but is now stripped down to a duo and rounded out by Esther Shaw—since they first embarked on their long, strange trip almost a decade ago.
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Tulsi GabbardTulsi GabbardBiden's lead atop Democratic field slips: poll Gabbard stokes fears among Democrats Trump Jr. attacks Vindman: 'Total absolution if you are a leftist veteran' MORE's (D-Hawaii) Wall Street fundraiser; and Claire Tacherra-Morrison, organizer with the Sunrise Movement, who shares some thoughts about Biden's candidacy.
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Tulsi GabbardTulsi GabbardBiden's lead atop Democratic field slips: poll Gabbard stokes fears among Democrats Trump Jr. attacks Vindman: 'Total absolution if you are a leftist veteran' MORE (D) says she won't run for reelection to her House seat next year to focus on her long-shot presidential bid.
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There's a sense of absolution for people on the other side of the equation in tracks like "Whatever You Do" and "Most of All," the latter of which has echoes of the Judds singing "Daddy's Hands" and so much of that hopey-changey stuff the Obamas gave us.
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And he must have loved the part where Nixon brilliantly granted racial absolution to his audience, especially the racists among them: And to those who say that law and order is the code word for racism, there and here is a reply: Our goal is justice for every American.
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They are aware of the president's habit of measuring success by the optics of a meeting, the staged camaraderie, the obsession to enhance the Trump brand even at the expense of demanding meaningful concessions, and willingly paying for the favorable images by granting ruthless dictators absolution, respect and equivalence.
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" Trump's absolution of Chinese blame on trade matters, a day after the anniversary of his election, were a stunning statement from the man who vilified China at every turn during the presidential campaign, accusing the country of having "raped" the US and branding it as an "economic enemy.
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The commission relied on the expert testimony of psychologists who said that the practice of confession, including the absolution granted by priests, assuaged the guilt of child abusers, at times allowing them to rationalize their behavior and proceed as if with a clean moral slate, leading to more abuse.
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Men as a group are supposed to benefit when certain men are granted impunity or given absolution for a "comeback," even though it should be obvious that many men do not benefit when you tell them they are supposed to sympathize with the people who assaulted and abused them.
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Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman Now John is a devastated single father, isolated from his two major support structures — his wife and his best friend — and dealing with the unresolvable guilt of having indulged in an emotional (hopefully, that's all it was) affair that he can now never seek absolution for.
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If Durant is truly seduced by Golden State's unparalleled access to both Silicon Valley and Too $hort, the Warriors would have four (four!) of the NBA's ten best players, all in their prime at the same time, all sharing a collective need for absolution and an unprecedented hunger for revenge.
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Elsewhere, Spencer (who's totally going to die in next week's midseason finale, if there's any justice), takes a drive with Father Gabriel, and uses the opportunity to whine to his captive audience about what a bad leader Rick is, hoping for the priest to give him absolution for his traitorous opinion.
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Speaking at a press conference Friday, the Archbishop added that while he would be unable to report revelations made inside a confessional, he "would certainly insist that if a person came to me and confessed those heinous crimes I would refuse them absolution until they went authorities," Hart told reporters.
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Rep. Tulsi GabbardTulsi GabbardBiden's lead atop Democratic field slips: poll Gabbard stokes fears among Democrats Trump Jr. attacks Vindman: 'Total absolution if you are a leftist veteran' MORE (D-Hawaii) announced early Friday morning that she would not seek reelection to Congress as she continues her bid for the 2628 Democratic presidential nomination.
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Tulsi GabbardTulsi GabbardBiden's lead atop Democratic field slips: poll Gabbard stokes fears among Democrats Trump Jr. attacks Vindman: 'Total absolution if you are a leftist veteran' MORE's (D-Hawaii) political intentions, fearing that she may be considering a third-party bid for the White House in 2020 if she doesn't win the Democratic presidential nomination.
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Rep. Tulsi GabbardTulsi GabbardBiden's lead atop Democratic field slips: poll Gabbard stokes fears among Democrats Trump Jr. attacks Vindman: 'Total absolution if you are a leftist veteran' MORE (D-Hawaii) called for the end of U.S. assistance to Saudi Arabia while speaking at a 9/11 tribute museum in New York City on Tuesday.
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Like others before him—including Harvey Weinstein, who fled to a rehab program, as if to a monastery, when accused of serial harassment and rape—Spacey seemed to seek absolution (or at least to quiet the storm) by alluding to addiction at a time when the opioid epidemic is classified as a public health emergency.
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And because these white suburbs are seemingly uncontoured by the segregatory social structures that created them, they allow for a sense of racial absolution in an industry increasingly being rightfully pressured to better its race and gender politics—in a culture war world where "confronting white privilege" is the virtue-signaling social justice politic du jour.
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Courtney E. Smith for Refinery29 argues for conscious consumerism to help curb any additional promotion, and thereby absolution, of men who have treated women abhorrently, which can potentially stop the trope from continuing on not only as a revered lifestyle but also as an excuse to get someone out of taking responsibility for mistreating a person.
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Silva uploaded a post mocking Bisping for kicking his own trainer while hitting pads at an open workout the other day, and immediately Bisping responded by sending out a copy of his most recent clean drug-test report: a wildly disproportionate response to a bit of light ribbing, but if what Silva is after is absolution he couldn't have planned it any better.
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Bernie SandersBernie SandersTop Sanders adviser: Warren isn't competing for 'same pool of voters' Eight Democratic presidential hopefuls to appear in CNN climate town hall Top aide Jeff Weaver lays out Sanders's path to victory MORE (I-Vt.) — offers absolution for our personal failures by blaming them not on our slack effort, but rather on the very wealthy who have rigged America.
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Tulsi GabbardTulsi GabbardBiden's lead atop Democratic field slips: poll Gabbard stokes fears among Democrats Trump Jr. attacks Vindman: 'Total absolution if you are a leftist veteran' MORE (D-Hawaii) and author Marianne WilliamsonMarianne WilliamsonWilliamson focuses on reparations in first ad of presidential campaign Juan Williams: Heed Clinton's warning on Tulsi Gabbard The Memo: What the leading 2020 Dems need to do MORE, and Republican former Massachusetts Gov.
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We know, based on last week's shower beatdown of a fellow inmate, that he can commit a terrible act of violence and, in Freddy's words, "sleep like a baby" while his victim is in I.C.U. We could be headed toward an ending like the great Humphrey Bogart noir "In a Lonely Place," which concludes with a man's innocence not being the same as absolution.
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For instance Rocco Buttiglione, an ally of John Paul II and now a prominent defender of Pope Francis, recently responded to the four conservative cardinals questioning "Amoris" with the following comments: The first question the eminent cardinals ask, is whether it is in some cases acceptable for absolution to be granted to people who despite being tied down by a previous marriage, live more uxorio, engaging in sexual intercourse.
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What the word "never" means seems to differ from one conservative to the next, but we should distinguish between conservatives who view "Never Trump" as a statement of civic obligation (those, in other words, who are seeking to defeat him), those who view it as a statement of self-absolution (abstainers), and those who view it as a way to cover their own hides, while hoping others carry Trump across the finish line for them.
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Unlike many Germans, Mr. Kohl never shied from expressing pride in what he often called "this, our Fatherland," even when the phrase unsettled many who had suffered at his country's hands in World War II. In dealing with the legacy of Germany's Nazi past, Mr. Kohl, who was a 15-year-old member of the Hitler Youth when the war ended, invoked what he called "the absolution of late birth" so often as to offend some listeners.
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Gay has always mined her personal history for material without looking for pity or absolution from her reader, and while her spare, utilitarian prose could be conspicuously undecorated in her recent collection of stories Difficult Women, here it helps her avoid melodrama and the fundamental fallacy of writing about sexual violence: more detail equals more realism equals more importance, which you can see anywhere from Hanya Yanagihara's novel A Little Life to the now discredited Rolling Stone story about sexual assault at UVA.
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You can only beg for absolution through the same interface that you used to ruin lives, and Taylor explained that this move toward disconnection was purposeful: This idea of saying the player is someone outside The Nation who is sort of independent and kind of neutral towards the people and that's why he's a good agent, that's a very easy, a very superficial idea actually, it's also easier to go from there and focus on the problems of surveillance in general.
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Even though I know it's a shallow morality trope designed to fit flat narratives, and even though I know I can't please everybody, I still crave the approval, the absolution—because some insecure part of me wants to preempt any reader's claim that I should have done such and such (smashed his mouth, kicked his groin, bit his hand) instead of remaining very still and crying as quietly as I could—because, yes, I regret my stillness and my tears.
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I'm reading Dracula for the first time and trying r e a l l y hard not to livetweet the experience because my GOD this book must have fuckin slapped if you read back before "Dracula" was synonymous with "vampire" The climate sad bois abound, bringing us an important truth that they believe they alone have discovered and that alone can deliver the world from catastrophe, or at least confer on them some sort of personal absolution as the planet burns.
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Meanwhile, Trump's eldest son, Donald Trump Jr.Donald (Don) John TrumpTrump Jr. attacks Vindman: 'Total absolution if you are a leftist veteran' Hillicon Valley: Amazon poised to escalate Pentagon 'war cloud' fight | FCC's move to target Huawei garners early praise | Facebook sues Israeli firm over alleged WhatsApp hack | Blue Dog Dems push election security funding Trump Jr. raves about Kanye's 'Jesus Is King': He 'is cracking the culture code' MORE, has publicly referred to the JEDI contract as the "corrupt #BezosBailout," claiming it was written to bolster profits for the Amazon chief.
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The bishops in the western provinces are taking the traditional line that Catholics who are planning their own suicides can't be given last rites, because you can't grant absolution to someone who intends to commit the gravest of sins shortly afterward … while the Catholic bishops of the Maritime provinces, citing Pope Francis's innovations as a model, suggest that actually pastoral accompaniment could include giving last rites to people who are about to receive "medical assistance in dying," because every case of assisted suicide is different and who are we to judge?
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Donald Trump Jr.Donald (Don) John TrumpTrump Jr. attacks Vindman: 'Total absolution if you are a leftist veteran' Hillicon Valley: Amazon poised to escalate Pentagon 'war cloud' fight | FCC's move to target Huawei garners early praise | Facebook sues Israeli firm over alleged WhatsApp hack | Blue Dog Dems push election security funding Trump Jr. raves about Kanye's 'Jesus Is King': He 'is cracking the culture code' MORE has launched a new website where fans can go to send a copy of his new book, "Triggered: How the Left Thrives on Hate and Wants to Silence Us," to Democratic leaders and Sen.
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Donald Trump Jr.Donald (Don) John TrumpTrump Jr. attacks Vindman: 'Total absolution if you are a leftist veteran' Hillicon Valley: Amazon poised to escalate Pentagon 'war cloud' fight | FCC's move to target Huawei garners early praise | Facebook sues Israeli firm over alleged WhatsApp hack | Blue Dog Dems push election security funding Trump Jr. raves about Kanye's 'Jesus Is King': He 'is cracking the culture code' MORE on Wednesday sharply attacked a witness in the House's impeachment inquiry into his father, President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump congratulates Washington Nationals on World Series win Trump hints that dog injured in al-Baghdadi raid will visit White House Vindman says White House lawyer moved Ukraine call to classified server: report MORE, accusing Lt. Col.
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