venial sin

Example Sentences

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My reservations have little to do with standard criticisms like awkward performances or clunky production values — venial sins, surely, for new filmmakers trying to find their way.

From Los Angeles Times

If you died with just unabsolved venial sins, however, then you did time in an intermediate prison called purgatory until you were eventually discharged and passed on to paradise.

From The Guardian

It is the diminishment of a man by a thousand nicks, a soul that rationalizes venial sins for the sake of his only child.

From Los Angeles Times

His self-absorption is at worst a venial sin, and his book's failings should be charged to its editor.

From Los Angeles Times

I used to think that driving a few miles over the speed limit was at most a venial sin. 

From Forbes