sin-eater English

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sin-eater noun

— A person (usually a man) who is supposed to take sins of a deceased person upon himself by means of eating a piece of bread, laid for him on the breast of the dead one.

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Humbled by military defeat, America can recover its regional relevance only by avoiding the sin of hubris, and learning to lead without attempting to dominate.

However badly bankers have behaved - and some clearly deserve a decade or more in the sin bin - financial services are a crucial element of London's economy.

What I said, instead, was this: I might, as a practicing Roman Catholic who adheres to his Church's teachings, think that homosexuality is a sin.

And the bankers and financiers who are widely blamed for the crisis will remain in the sin bin for a while yet, until voters' expectations of economic and financial stability are more consistently satisfied.

Indeed, Shi'a Muslim clerics ordered their people - including women - to vote, warning that to stay home on Election Day was a sin.

Similarly, kites get tangled in trees, and if you climb the tree to free it, you might look over your neighbor's wall and see a woman without her veil, which would put you in sin.

Similarly, in his 2007 book Not Even Wrong: The Failure of String Theory and the Search for Unity in Physical Law, Peter Woit accused physicists of much the same sin as mathematical economists are said to commit.

Mossadegh's sin was his plan to nationalize Iran's oil industry.

But, in the process of laying claim to Iran's oil, subverting its democracy, and jeopardizing its national security, the US and Britain committed a much graver sin: the wounding of Iranians' national pride.

But the Americans are not without sin.

It is as though a form of original sin entered a subspecies of humanity descended from Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

Plagiarism is the sin of the classroom; forgery is the sin of the laboratory.

Once again, some Christians say that we have all inherited the original sin committed by Eve, who defied God's decree against eating from the tree of knowledge.

Saudi rulers have announced that demonstrations are haram - a sin punishable by jail and flogging.

In the first episode of A Touch of Sin, the local boss has become a private-plane-owning billionaire by stripping and selling all of his region's collective assets.

A Touch of Sin has been shown to great acclaim all over the world, but not in China.

George W. Bush committed the cardinal sin of all fallen empires - that of overreach.

Thaksin's unforgivable sin was his violation of Thailand's unwritten rules about how the country's ruling elites are to behave.

Corporate sin is not unknown in the US.

The other thing both films share is a fascination with mythical stories, the Book of Job in Leviathan, and martial-arts fiction in A Touch of Sin.

And yet, for now, the societies depicted so acidly in Leviathan and A Touch of Sin continue to look good in the eyes of many people who are disillusioned with Europe's economic stagnation and America's political dysfunction.

Christians may have believed in sin.