Promises

Usage examples of avowals.

Each time, from a stripping down as absolute as that of death, and from a humility which surpasses that of defeat and of prayer, I marvel to see again reforming the complex web of experiences shared and refused, of mutual responsibilities, awkward avowals, transparent lies, and passionate compromises between my pleasures and those of the Other, so many bonds impossible to break but nevertheless so quickly loosened.

You shudder, at thinking of the avowals wrested from the criminals, of the confessions broken with sobs murmured there.

I came to understand that the spirit of the game demanded these perpetual disguises, these exaggerated avowals and complaints, this pleasure sometimes simulated and sometimes concealed, these meetings contrived like the figures of a dance.

Our accord dispensed with explanations and avowals, or reticences: facts themselves sufficed.

At the remembrance of the avowals wrested from him by a sort of delirium, he blushed, and reproached himself bitterly.

For there ever remained to her the sweet enjoyment of his letters--of those passionately written avowals of his love.

He would recognize you by your sigh, and his lips would not speak those words and avowals which you desire to hear.

I repeated my succinct story, and after a few avowals that I’d seen no one in the vicinity, I was escorted to my door and thanked for my overly zealous call.

Arnie’s repeated avowals of my political position arose from an incident in the past, when he’d been assigned to drive a state senator and a local beauty queen in the Thurberfest parade.