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  • I felt no sorrow or remorse.   (source)
    remorse = regret for doing something that was wrong
  • There was no remorse in her eyes.   (source)
    remorse = feeling of regret for doing something that was wrong
  • to hear men twist basting themselves with remorse   (source)
    remorse = deep regret for doing something that was wrong
  • Now remorse began to gnaw at me.   (source)
    remorse = a feeling of regret for doing something that was wrong
  • Why do they make you wait so long, trembling in the shadow of fear and remorse?   (source)
    remorse = feeling of deep regret for doing something that was wrong
  • But not a one of you has shown the slightest sign of remorse.   (source)
    remorse = regret for doing something that was wrong
  • I'd show no pride, only remorse.   (source)
    remorse = deep regret for doing something that was wrong
  • ...something of this gaiety she must have given to me, for I had not one moment of remorse.   (source)
    remorse = regret for doing something that was wrong
  • He shakes his head with remorse.   (source)
    remorse = deep regret for doing something that was wrong
  • But my raging always turned to remorse.   (source)
  • But for once I was soaked through with honest remorse.   (source)
  • Saeed did not know how to mourn, how to express his remorse, from so great a distance.†   (source)
  • "O brave new world, O brave new world …" In his mind the singing words seemed to change their tone. They had mocked him through his misery and remorse,   (source)
    remorse = regret
  • Perhaps when she sees me lying cold and dead before her Mrs. Barry may feel remorse for what she has done and will let Diana come to my funeral.   (source)
  • Even with remorse you will have a better time.   (source)
    remorse = regret for doing something that was wrong
  • Thou knowest the extent of my remorse and the will of my spirit.   (source)
    remorse = deep regret for doing something that was wrong
  • And how shall you punish those whose remorse is already greater than their misdeeds?   (source)
    remorse = regret for doing something that was wrong
  • By her own blindness she had sinned; now she must repay, not by empty remorse, but by prompt and useful action.   (source)
    remorse = deep regret for doing something that was wrong
  • As the acuteness of this remorse began to die away, it was succeeded by a sense of joy.   (source)
  • I began to experience remorse, repentance; the wish for reconcilement to my Maker.   (source)
  • I experienced a sentiment half of horror, half of remorse, for the crime of which I had been guilty; but it was, at best, a feeble and equivocal feeling, and the soul remained untouched.   (source)
    remorse = regret
  • It's as if Roland thinks his attack on her could be wiped away by feigning remorse—not because he's actually sorry for what he did, but because it serves Roland's needs to treat her well now.†   (source)
  • That ambivalence turned to remorse soon after he shot the moose.†   (source)
  • A few days earlier, Louie would have bound and killed him without remorse.†   (source)
  • "I'm glad to hear he felt some remorse," I said coldly.†   (source)
  • That showed true remorse.†   (source)
  • That surge is immediately followed by remorse, because now I've hurt his feelings for no good reason.†   (source)
  • For the rest of his life, he never mentioned Ye Wenjie, and we do not know if he ever felt remorse or repented for his actions.†   (source)
  • She had no remorse, no sense that she was asking me to do something wrong.†   (source)
  • Gregor looked remorseful.†   (source)
  • Still they showed no surprise or remorse.†   (source)
  • Never remorseful, Tony coolly replied, "Same to you."†   (source)
  • Otherwise you are left with words you should have said but never did, and your heart is heavy with remorse.†   (source)
  • Everyone I saw at the prison seemed surrounded by a cloud of regret and remorse.†   (source)
  • But their leader didn't look in the least bit reprimanded or remorseful.†   (source)
  • The remorse that gripped her was powerful and sudden, a deep sadness laced with guilt.†   (source)
  • He was not even slightly remorseful.†   (source)
  • There has to be remorse.†   (source)
  • If we continue like this, we'll have to start calling it remorse code.†   (source)
  • Mae found out, with a sting of remorse, that she'd missed, that very morning, a visit from Muhammad Yunus, winner of the Nobel Prize.†   (source)
  • Occasionally he sat in his apartment and wept in order to empty himself of self-pity and remorse.†   (source)
  • The closest that the Rev. Lewis Merrill had come to God was in his remorse for his "sin" with my mother.†   (source)
  • Sansa had put on a lovely pale green damask gown and a look of remorse, but her sister was still wearing the ratty leathers and roughspun she'd worn at breakfast.†   (source)
  • Peter didn't feel remorse for what he'd done, that much was clear.†   (source)
  • There is no regret in Elara's eyes and no remorse.†   (source)
  • I feel a pang of remorse about yesterday, the awful things I yelled at her as Peeta and Haymitch dragged me from the kitchen.†   (source)
  • He knew that if she did not make her peace with her parents before one of them died, her remorse would be endless.†   (source)
  • His eyes and his words are full of remorse, but the apology still doesn't come.†   (source)
  • I felt guilty about it for a few minutes, but in our position, there wasn't much time for remorse.†   (source)
  • But at least her dad sounded sincere, like he really did feel remorseful.†   (source)
  • If I wanted to neglect my own work, Kit groaned in remorse, I might at least have been out in the Cruffs' field helping the poor child!†   (source)
  • There's a particular memory I have of sitting by myself one evening on one of the benches outside the pavilion, trying over and over to think of some way out, while a heavy mix of remorse and frustration brought me virtually to tears.†   (source)
  • So—this remorse and pain of yours —you must view it in a different light.†   (source)
  • His complete lack of remorse, which was what had shocked her most.†   (source)
  • A normal person would feel a shard of remorse, but not Butler.†   (source)
  • Stained-glass windows depicting scenes of anger, hate, and remorse pierced the walls, while spectral beams of light washed sections of the granite pews with transparent hues, leaving the rest in shadow.†   (source)
  • Tomorrow the Schieber interview would air, and then the others would roll out, a domino of apologetics and remorse.†   (source)
  • He kept up a remorseful mumbling.†   (source)
  • Just enough of a sound to slit through the red fog like an arrow — but instead of letting in sunlight, that sound let in the dark clouds of shame and remorse, the terror, the agonizing convulsion of the spirit.†   (source)
  • I thought I could detect a note of remorse in his voice.†   (source)
  • I feel something ...not yet remorse...at my sin of falsifying the evidence on the Armaghast dig.†   (source)
  • When Colin Dexter decides to kill of his recurrent detective Morse in The Remorseful Day (1999), he has a number of options.†   (source)
  • My anger gradually gave in to remorse but we didn't speak for days.†   (source)
  • Silvia showed absolutely no remorse when, twenty minutes later, a different guard came, telling us we were free to go upstairs.†   (source)
  • He felt appropriately remorseful.†   (source)
  • If you agree to this, you won't feel remorse, because you won't be yourself.†   (source)
  • From puppydog devotion, he had moved on to a moody bossiness complicated with intermittent periods of dogged remorse that would have been passion had there been less of his hunger and more of her desire in it.†   (source)
  • Rachel seems incapable of remorse, but she is not.†   (source)
  • Bloom felt no remorse.†   (source)
  • His shoulders are rounded now, his body in a remorseful slump.†   (source)
  • Ursula accused herself inwardly of having twisted Rebecca's destiny with repeated postponements and she was not about to add more remorse.†   (source)
  • In five of these the murderer had called the police himself and, full of remorse, confessed to having killed his wife or brother or some other relative.†   (source)
  • She heard the return to sanity, the remorse in his voice.†   (source)
  • REMORSE!†   (source)
  • There was so much remorse in his voice that I was startled.†   (source)
  • Ironically, in spite of all the fear and remorse and self-loathing, being locked up in prison is where I fully realized I had to change my life for the better, and in one significant way I did.†   (source)
  • Despite her denials, he knew she was feeling regret, maybe even remorse, about what had happened, but even that didn't make sense to him.†   (source)
  • It's the first time since my near execution that I've seen him remorseful instead of defensive or full of excuses.†   (source)
  • Compassion, remorse, mercy.†   (source)
  • In this case, he didn't show an ounce of remorse.†   (source)
  • I find it difficult to describe my feelings: I felt regret that I had been unable to be with her when she died, remorse that I had not been able to look after her properly during her life, and a longing for what might have been had I chosen to live my life differently.†   (source)
  • The Chancellor stared at Wells, as if looking for a sign of remorse or glee—anything to help him understand why his son had tried to set fire to the only tree evacuated from their ravaged planet.†   (source)
  • Surely he must be experiencing a remorse sufficiently profound to summon a desire for God's mercy and forgiveness?†   (source)
  • The little man slapped himself on the forehead in remorse.†   (source)
  • Then his remorse began.†   (source)
  • She finally spots his face and sees he is placid, showing no sign of rejoice or remorse.†   (source)
  • Adam resurfaced two days later, as remorseful and apologetic as before: "a moment of weakness," he explained.†   (source)
  • Whatever it was, his childlike, remorseful expression brought me back.†   (source)
  • Milkman felt a quick beat of something like remorse, but he shook it off and resumed his search for his mother.†   (source)
  • Back of it all there was truly much remorse, and terrible anxiety for Stoddard himself; but this was continually swallowed up in her concern for her own welfare, her own good name.†   (source)
  • She showered in his little bathroom, waiting to be seized by guilt or remorse, but neither came, only trepidation at what he might be feeling.†   (source)
  • Remorse.†   (source)
  • The sight of blood all over Mahtob's face brought a measure of calm, although there was no remorse.†   (source)
  • "However," the foreman continued, "in light of the defendant's honesty, her genuine remorse, and the severe provocation preceding the crimes, the jury has elected to suspend the sentence and place Miss Shrope on probationary supervision for a period of five years."†   (source)
  • I told him I felt kind of bad for the frogs and turtles but that, no, I felt no remorse whatsoever for the snakes and, to tell the truth, had once had a very bad experience with gators.†   (source)
  • There's a lot to be said for sacrifice, remorse, even pity.†   (source)
  • Still he lingered, remorsefully.†   (source)
  • What happened to you is a tragedy and she feels nothing but remorse.†   (source)
  • He had no right to feel such remorse.†   (source)
  • Bert took a breath before replying, his expression more wistful than remorseful.†   (source)
  • I believed her to be remorseful—about having lied to me all those years and about her low marriage.†   (source)
  • There is so much remorse and pain and self-loathing in his expression that I ache for him because I know what it feels like, and I hate myself for the aching.†   (source)
  • They would carry me out to the garden each day, and I would sit there, too lost in my own grief and remorse to get up out of my chair.†   (source)
  • I can only look back at my mother with guilt and remorse.†   (source)
  • He felt a sense of accomplishment rather than remorse for destroying the man he knew more intimately than he knew himself.†   (source)
  • The hammer blows of guilt and remorse.†   (source)
  • In his khaki inmate uniform, this monster explained with impressive insight and remorse how he had mishandled his failing marriage.†   (source)
  • He felt not an ounce of remorse.†   (source)
  • We're suffering remorse.†   (source)
  • ' he said half remorsefully.†   (source)
  • He felt a tinge of remorse as he reached down and picked up the paper bag that contained his dinner.†   (source)
  • Philon tells the tale with no apparent regret or remorse whatsoever.†   (source)
  • There is always the slenderest remorse after any fanfare.†   (source)
  • When the submarine passed through the debris, I thought the crew looked remorseful-because the wounded were giving up, letting go, and sinking-but when they passed me they laughed.†   (source)
  • In spite of the sun, he was shivering, because a cold coil of remorse was unwinding in his chest.†   (source)
  • Worse still, you don't show an atom of shame or remorse.†   (source)
  • Booth ruminates without remorse.†   (source)
  • Lolla-Wossiky had never seen anyone so tortured by remorse; the vision Lolla-Wossiky had given him was stronger than any dream a man could imagine for himself.†   (source)
  • There isn't an ounce of remorse in you, and I want you to know that it would have been my distinct pleasure to sentence you to death if you'd had the courage to go to trial.†   (source)
  • Oh, everybody was true to form—Denny angry, Nora remorseful, Amanda looking for someone to blame.†   (source)
  • But Gooch was swept away by the theatricality of remorse.†   (source)
  • Ootek was stricken with remorse.†   (source)
  • Later she bawls like a little baby as she sits beside me, trying to explain herself For some reason her awful sweetness, her helplessness, her crestfallen and remorseful manner all help me to control my wild rage.†   (source)
  • I felt some remorse, though I knew the difference between Shadow and Substance.†   (source)
  • The police came for him, to question him, and he went away between two of them, quietly, as if full of remorse for the sins of all mankind.†   (source)
  • She imagined that she took his remorse in hand and changed it into a deeper understanding of life.†   (source)
  • We mustn't start feeling remorse.†   (source)
  • Not over Joanie, she was neither swept off her feet nor likely to suffer remorse.†   (source)
  • My soul has no peace, I am torn by remorse and pain.†   (source)
  • Their glances met through their laughter and remorse.†   (source)
  • In the chaos of grief and remorse that filled his mind it was the one articulate word. "God!" he whispered it aloud.   (source)
  • But his mind was elsewhere–with death, with his grief, and his remorse; mechanicaly, without consciousness of what he was doing, he began to shoulder his way through the crowd.   (source)
  • Grief and remorse, compassion and duty–all were forgotten now and, as it were, absorbed into an intense overpowering hatred of these less than human monsters.   (source)
  • What with mothers and lovers, what with the prohibitions they were not conditioned to obey, what with the temptations and the lonely remorses, what with all the diseases and the endless isolating pain, what with the uncertainties and the poverty–they were forced to feel strongly.   (source)
    remorses = regrets
  • I don't say that I suffered any remorse.   (source)
    remorse = regret for doing something that was wrong
  • ...there was a cold gnawing in my inside like a remorse for something wrong.   (source)
    remorse = feeling of deep regret
  • You'll feel remorse of conscience someday, I expect, for breaking it, Marilla, but I forgive you.   (source)
    remorse = regret
  • Dread remorse when you are tempted to err, Miss Eyre;
    remorse is the poison of life.   (source)
    remorse = deep regret for doing something that was wrong
  • Had he suffered tortures of remorse,   (source)
  • I appealed to one who, in the discharge of what he believed his duty, knew neither mercy nor remorse.   (source)
  • I only remind you of your own words, sir: you said error brought remorse, and you pronounced remorse the poison of existence.   (source)
  • I ought probably to have done or said nothing; but I was so tortured by a sense of remorse at thus hurting his feelings, I could not control the wish to drop balm where I had wounded.   (source)
  • There was such deep remorse in his eye, such true pity in his tone, such manly energy in his manner; and besides, there was such unchanged love in his whole look and mien — I forgave him all: yet not in words, not outwardly; only at my heart's core.   (source)
    remorse = sincere regret for doing something that was wrong
  • A child cannot quarrel with its elders, as I had done; cannot give its furious feelings uncontrolled play, as I had given mine, without experiencing afterwards the pang of remorse and the chill of reaction.   (source)
    remorse = regret for doing something that was wrong
  • I know how soon youth would fade and bloom perish, if, in the cup of bliss offered, but one dreg of shame, or one flavour of remorse were detected; and I do not want sacrifice, sorrow, dissolution — such is not my taste.   (source)
    remorse = deep regret for doing something that was wrong
  • Whether is it better, I ask, to be a slave in a fool's paradise at Marseilles — fevered with delusive bliss one hour — suffocating with the bitterest tears of remorse and shame the next — or to be a village-schoolmistress, free and honest, in a breezy mountain nook in the healthy heart of England?   (source)
  • I would say her expression right now was definitely remorseful.†   (source)
    remorseful = full of regret for doing something that was wrong
  • I stared at his face, searching for any signs of the anger or remorse I feared.†   (source)
  • I made my choice long ago, he knew, and yet he felt no remorse.†   (source)
  • He was talking about it without any kind of remorse — with amusement.†   (source)
  • I search his eyes for the slightest sign of anything, fear, remorse, anger.†   (source)
  • It is clear from your son's attitude that he feels no remorse for his actions.†   (source)
  • Yet I had felt no remorse when I sent them off on deadly tasks.†   (source)
  • The old man, white as paper, looks back on his former students without a flicker of remorse.†   (source)
  • They wanted us to be able to kill them with no remorse, to make them less than people.†   (source)
  • That the absence of children, all children, would heighten the adults' remorse.†   (source)
  • Instantly, a wave of remorse washed through him.†   (source)
  • I hoped Charlie could see past the changes in my new face to read the remorse there.†   (source)
  • He didn't answer his question, but he also expressed no remorse.†   (source)
  • Jacob scowled and ducked his head while I fought back a surge of remorse.†   (source)
  • For the first time there was emotion in his voice, regret or remorse.†   (source)
  • "Sonny called me last night to tell me to act humble and remorseful," he says.†   (source)
  • They say he showed remorse in later years, alone in his cell at Nurmengard.†   (source)
  • He needed to show the jury that this boy had chosen to stand before them in order to show remorse.†   (source)
  • Silas's soul thundered with remorse and rage.†   (source)
  • When will the long horror of her punishment and remorse be over?†   (source)
  • "Your mother, now she will be glad to wash her hands of you," Amah said with great remorse.†   (source)
  • Remorse reminds me of Daddy, who had none, at least none for me.†   (source)
  • He is troubled to find that it feels like buyer's remorse.†   (source)
  • Kate sighed and muttered, "So much for remorse."†   (source)
  • He turned away; there was no sadness in him, no remorse.†   (source)
  • I had no choice, he told himself, surprised how little remorse he felt for what he had just done.†   (source)
  • Jacob scowled and ducked his head while I fought back a surge of remorse.†   (source)
  • The thought gave him twinges of both satisfaction and remorse.†   (source)
  • "Is there anything else you feel remorse for?" he asked.†   (source)
  • Langdon sat on a grungy bench nearby, feeling remorseful.†   (source)
  • Don't you feel any remorse for what you've done?†   (source)
  • Look, I know everyone thinks I'm this unfeeling kid who doesn't feel 'remorse'!†   (source)
  • Do you feel at all remorseful for what you've done?†   (source)
  • She did not permit herself the vulgarity of remorse.†   (source)
  • "I don't need you," she said softly, and without remorse.†   (source)
  • — Tyrion gazed at him without remorse.†   (source)
  • As I reread the letter, I began to feel a deep remorse.†   (source)
  • An overwhelming sense of remorse flooded his mind.†   (source)
  • "She interfered," Madame Stravinski explained without remorse.†   (source)
  • Thomas felt a pang of remorse for his offering up the man in exchange for Qurong's death.†   (source)
  • I watched the cat's life ebb away, and didn't know whether to feel relief, satisfaction, or remorse.†   (source)
  • He sensed several emotions in her, but what surprised him the most was her remorse and guilt.†   (source)
  • I still feel terrible about it," Jo said, her remorse obvious.†   (source)
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