The silence that surrounded Holocaust survivors during the immediate postwar reconstruction of Europe has been replaced by gestures of contrition and reparation.

His expression of contrition may provide some relief that the key culprit has been fingered, but it brought the sealing of the well no closer.

In a gesture of contrition for her crime, she donated all of the proceeds from this book to the families of the victims of KAL 858.

Its style is almost scientific factual, staccato like, and unemotional and it goes a long way toward meeting China s demand for a convincing investigation and act of contrition that might allow the bitter and still poisonous past to be overcome.