In the Marine Corps, your buddy is not only your classmate or fellow officer, but he is also the Marine under your command. If you don't prepare yourself to properly train him, lead him, and support him on the battlefield, then you're going to let him down. That is unforgivable in the Marine Corps.
Avoiding combat duty was and is an unforgivable sin for a professional soldier.
My praise is perhaps an unforgivable poison.
There are no unforgivable sins.
The unforgivable political sin is vanity; the killer diet is sour grapes.
I think, a lot of time, I'm just writing my worst fears, of the idea of losing my mom or my best friend or doing something so terrible to somebody that's kind of deemed unforgivable or having a really broken family.
The daily glitter of skyscrapers competing with the stars is an unnecessary, unforgivable decadence.
Right now, as I'm typing this, some liberal somewhere is saying something unforgivable about Michelle Bachmann or Ann Coulter. I condemn you, whoever you are! But I'm not going to conduct a house-to-house search to find you.
'Misguided Little Unforgivable Hierarchies' is a piece that I did around the time that I was very frustrated and angry with the fact that the U.S., where I live, had decided to pull itself into another war. I was really angry.
In politics, there is only one crime that is unforgivable - showing weakness.
