vostra culpa
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
3
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
phrase
noun
Example Sentences
- "Sir, — I plead “guilty” but so should you. The “Encyclopedia Britannica” does give information on “marmalade” as being related to “quince jelly”. (Vol. 14, 1942 ed.) It also offers a recipe for making the modern “orange-marmalade”. “Mea culpa . . . vostra culpa”."
- "Mickey Kaus’s TRB (“Who’s Sorry Now,” May 1) says more about himself than about Robert McNamara. Even George McGovern has said he saw contrition and regret in McNamara’s book [In Retrospect: The Tragedy and Lessons of Vietnam]."
- "[…] ‘vostra culpa’ – ‘nostra culpa’ – that we did not see what was right in front […]"
- "The process of proliferation of attitudes characterized by “outer directed-ness” has been associated with the parallel process of the wilting of individual guilt—the core of Christianity. […] Mea culpa has been progressively replaced first by vostra culpa that, some time after World War II, gave way to nostra culpa. Mea culpa has been marginalized and has progressively gone out of fashion."
- "One Trick Pony (at the Uptown), a film written by and starring Paul Simon, […] is another in the Feel Sorry For The Suffering Arist genre that was recently given a new lease on life by Bob Fosse’s All That Jazz: would that the lease had expired after that one movie. Instead, in rapid succession, we’ve been given Honeysuckle Rose, Woody Allen’s vostra culpa Stardust Memories, and now (the order is, coincidentally, descending) this interminible indulgence from Simon, in which the demands of commercial radio are hopelessly at odds with the music his integrity wants to make."
- "What we need as much as anything now are mea culpas from politicians who devised and facilitated this fiasco, and journalists who justified and excused it. […] I don't mean vostra culpas, nostra culpas, or even sua culpas, of the sort that the Richard Cohens and Tom Friedmans have tried to fob off on the world, […] I mean a frank admission of fault from everybody who bears some of the blame, offered with the humility owed by those who have harmed their country."