penitentially

Glacially slow and penitentially sparse, it's music of quiet extremism.

In one, dancers in monks' robes penitentially cross the stage on their knees.

The group's six dancers might well have been tormented souls penitentially struggling in a misty realm from which there was no escape.

Ms. Jones brought a powerful stage presence to a solo in which she portrayed Mary Magdalene writhing penitentially on her knees.

Hervé then preached a sermon that was so eloquent that the wolf penitentially begged to be allowed to serve in the ox's stead.

Many a disguised Tory has lately shown his head, that shall penitentially solemnize with curses the day on which Howe arrived upon the Delaware.

David thinks the historically determined criminals should be locked up with their own kind, and Lucy thinks that she should live penitentially among the historically determined criminals.

When he was drunk, which was quite often, Mr. Chenevix-Trench had an unpleasant habit of beating the students with a savagery unusual even by Eton standards, and then sobbing penitentially afterward.

After a peaceful night and a penitentially modest fruit and yogurt breakfast, I endured the exquisite agony of an hourlong yoga and Pilates class - the longest hour of my stay - and then faced the music at the Colorado Springs airport.

I am not quite clear whether these articles were carried penitentially or ostentatiously; but, I rather think they were displayed as articles of property - much as Cleopatra or any other sovereign lady on the Rampage might exhibit her wealth in a pageant or procession.

Massachusetts: In Commonwealth v. Drake [(1818) 15 Mass., 154], it was argued on the one side that a confession of a criminal offence made penitentially by a member of a certain Church to other members, in accordance with the discipline of that Church, may not be given in evidence.