Within the week, the president has morphed from being contrite and apologetic, hoping to avoid impeachment, to brazenly defiant, vowing to fight on as the net closed in on him.

But in the recent hearings for her appeal against the sentence she has been more contrite.

Zegler's contrite posts were a far cry from her white-hot rage following the election of Trumpov.

When he sees and hears about what he has done, he is distraught and contrite.

Days later, Smith issued a contrite statement and resigned from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.