cardinal sin

However, when the movie flashes forward to a year after their first night together and waves goodbye to Tallie for a significant stretch of its runtime, Angarano threatens to commit the cardinal sin of wasting his most charming actor.

"It was like a cardinal sin," Dawn Butler told the Commons during a debate on St Patrick's Day and Northern Irish affairs.

For most coaches, that is a cardinal sin.

But laughing at the Fuhrer is perhaps the cardinal sin when living under fascism—this is no joke.

And if there's one thing I was trained to avoid as a female writer in male-dominated MFA workshops, it's the cardinal sin of memoir: excessive navel-gazing.