Word: culpae
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Quite simply, Bush looks and sounds tired. His speeches seem to contain as much of the vanquished mea culpa attitude as the conquering veni vidi vici sentiment...
...assessing the fact that the economy would recover," he said. Such statements are designed to disarm voters who blame both Bush and Congress for the economic problems but blame Bush more. As one leading New Hampshire Republican put it, "Voters here are so unaccustomed to hearing a mea culpa from a politician that when they do, they love...
...great many prejudices that have since dissolved. But what I still hate about the women's movement is their insistence upon male piety in relation to it. I don't like bending my knee and saying I'm sorry, mea culpa. I find now that women have achieved some power and recognition they are quite the equal of men in every stupidity and vice and misjudgment that we've exercised through history...
...Truth or Dare, a stylized icon of the Madonna appears dreamlike over her head and then dissolves into the form of the black-clad chanteuse spinning beneath the cross in an act of contrition: Mea culpa. Mea maxima culpa...
...seems like January was open season on Harvard course-offerings, both past and present. In a piece titled. "Mea Culpa" in The New Republic's special issue dealing with race on campus, Richard Blow, a doctoral candidate in the History of American civilization at Harvard, joins the whining chorus of dissent against Harvard's allegedly illegitimate "PC" course offerings. Here, he lets loose on a course offered by Shakespeare-guru Marjorie Garber...