Word: venial
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...whisper in the midst of a scene of tense emotional strain conducive to the highest enjoyment. However, the sterling work of Clara West Butler as Nurse Wayland, and of Mary McDonald as the old-bodied, young-souled mother of the cripple, inclines one to wink at a multitude of venial sins in the remainder of the cast...
...must not be violated. Recently certain members of the freshman class at Harvard were so indiscreet as to egg the seniors on to wrath and the rest of the college on to disgust at their mawdlin behavior. Now some members of the Yale freshman crew have committed the venial but vicious sin of cheating at examinations. So two colleges include certain individuals whom a Yale graduate of fame and fortune could call "These sad young...
Happily the sins of our law are venial. Time is required for it to adapt itself to the new conditions of the 20th century. In regard to corporations, it has made rapid strides. But in regard to the poor man, justice is sluggish. The state needs trained, ingenious lawyers; but when it gets them with the sacrifice of lawyers with human understanding and a layman's common sense, there is no gain. Perhaps no better expenditure could be made by the state than to attract with large salaries the right kind of legally trained men to sit as judges...
Happily the sins of our law are venial. Time is required for it to adapt itself to the new conditions of the twentieth century. In regard to corporations, it has made rapid strides. In regard to the poor man, justice is sluggish. The state needs trained, ingenious lawyers; but when it gets them by the sacrifice of lawyers with human understanding and a layman's common sense, there is no gain. Perhaps no better expenditure could be made by the state than to attract with large salaries the right kind of legally trained men to sit as judges...
...realization of the growth and change of the language. Usage makes good English. Professor Wendell found it one of his tasks to impress the fact that usage does not require the sanction of generations to become "good usage" and therefore good English. He never professed horror at such a venial offence as a split infinitive. He was, in brief, eminently a man of common sense...