The natural moments between them, which transcend the labored repentant-brother subplot, capture the thrill of finding a person who makes you feel like there is no one as smart, funny, or good-looking as the two of you.

NEWYORKER: My Summer of Love

Leighton Andrews was straining as he tried not to gloat this morning, offering the Welsh Labour government's welcome to the "repentant sinner" Michael Gove back into the GCSE fold.

BBC: Welcoming back 'the repentant sinner'

She got in touch with the feelings of repentant wife-beaters and self-abasing Promise Keepers.

ECONOMIST: American men

And that August, a convent of the Franciscan order, a house for repentant women, gave refuge to the grieving Fornarina.

BBC: Discovery hints at Renaissance romance

Nobody can match the passion of a repentant sinner.

CNN: Bill Press: Seducing the McCainiacs

But the army has many other brigades, too: repentant neocons such as Francis Fukuyama, legal scholars such as Douglas Kmiec, and conservative talk-show hosts such as Michael Smerconish.

ECONOMIST: Lexington

Even Jonah, who should have been very self satisfied at saving the entire city of Ninevah from destruction, was petulant because the promised fire and brimstone was thwarted by a repentant population.

FORBES: Post Apocalyptic Cyber Realism

Like a repentant Scrooge bestowing a plump Christmas turkey upon the Cratchits, one could not help but get the chilly bumps as the market rallied almost 9% from Nov. 25, 2011 to December 7.

FORBES: All I Want for Christmas Is A Santa Claus Rally