contrite

You don’t tear things away from people when you want them to contrite, not significantly: that comes later.

They were apologizing and acting contrite about _something_, don't you think?

It had the word "contrite"There were plenty of exploits you could have done, without having local access to my machine.

To starting this post with, "I hate to disturb you when youre playing SimCity," is so gross, self congratulatory, and not contrite.

Rolling your eyes about seemingly overblown theoretical worries is fine, but one should be a bit more contrite in public.

For a mass market product intended for their consumption it's a bad idea to induce even righteously indignant offense, no matter how contrite.

My inclination when people feel insulted is generally to apologize, but I've re-read my comment twice, and I cannot apologize because I am not contrite.

Tactically, it would make more sense to be as contrite as you possibly can, play the nave engineer who loves Tumblr to death, and ask them for permission to use the name in the domain in exchange for including a prominent banner + disclaimer at the top of the page or wherever Tumblr prefers.

Hence three strikes laws, ridiculous sentencing enhancements or reductions for whether an offender seems contrite at sentencing, etc. Ironically, this thought process also led to an inflation of sentences, because people more easily rationalized increasing maximum sentences when those maximums would only be applied to "bad people.