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  • And despite his overdeveloped social conscience, he was no tight-lipped, perpetually grim do-gooder who frowned on fun.†   (source)
  • If he had tugs of conscience over what he'd done, he shrugged them away by assuring himself that the lifting of the fugitive-apprehension order was a personal exoneration.†   (source)
  • "At least the guilt is not on our hands," Mr. Hoo said, trying to convince himself that a clear conscience was worth two hundred million dollars.†   (source)
  • Alex Thomas's conscience had evidently made a big impression on Laura, but it cut no ice with Reenie.†   (source)
  • From an unexpected corner had come an expression of romantic interest, which could not in good conscience be ignored.†   (source)
  • A kind man with a good social conscience.†   (source)
  • Her eyes tugged at my conscience, trying to pull out the secrets.†   (source)
  • But more than the setting, what arrested me was my intuitive understanding that he was there—open, patient—in case someone, anyone, should want to talk to him; a problem of the soul, a heaviness of the heart, a darkness of the conscience, he would listen with love.†   (source)
  • The tears question the conscience
    "Relinquish your fears and doubts
    And heal yourself in the process."†   (source)
  • I am a man of honor, and I vowed in my deepest conscience only to sacrifice those who had betrayed the Sangreal.†   (source)
  • And even though it bothered my conscience, I'd lean in and whisper answers to him, hoping that maybe I could spend lunch with him instead.†   (source)
  • I don't want your brutal murder on my conscience.†   (source)
  • The incomprehensible egg weighed more heavily than ever on Harry's conscience that evening, and by the time he had got into bed, he had made up his mind — it was time to shelve his pride and see if Cedric's hint was worth anything.†   (source)
  • Bod thought about the reassuring things that he could say, like "there's nothing bad down there," but the tales of hair turning white and people never returning meant that he could not have said them with a clear conscience, so he said, "I'll go down.†   (source)
  • The prevailing opinion in the corridors of the courthouse was that Bobby Lee Cook had raised just enough doubt about the state's case to enable jurors to vote "not guilty" in good conscience.†   (source)
  • Still, both of these young people were culpable and must look to themselves now, examine their souls, consider this a matter of conscience.†   (source)
  • Guilty conscience!†   (source)
  • I figured it was my chance to clear my conscience once and for all.†   (source)
  • At one of the foster houses where I'd stayed a woman told me she knew I was going to be a criminal because "anyone who sleeps that light has got to have a guilty conscience."†   (source)
  • I sensed Rose there, pressing on me like a bad conscience, and I remembered her saying, with that mixture of irony and eagerness that was hers alone, "Ask me something.†   (source)
  • And they haven't developed a conscience.†   (source)
  • "It'll depend on the Christian conscience of strangers," Bud jokes.†   (source)
  • This case, Tom Robinson's case, is something that goes to the essence of a man's conscience— Scout, I couldn't go to church and worship God if I didn't try to help that man.†   (source)
  • He had a heart, she realized, and a conscience.†   (source)
  • "Maybe it means you still have a conscience," Reynie said.†   (source)
  • Each and every one of us must live with his own conscience.†   (source)
  • I didn't want the Swedish supermodel on my conscience either.†   (source)
  • It was for herself, for her own crime which her conscience could no longer bear.†   (source)
  • But my conscience is clear before God, says Mrs. McGrath.†   (source)
  • Sampson jumped out of the car and left them there, glad to be able to breathe fresh air and celebrate his birthday with a clear head and a clean conscience.†   (source)
  • Until that point all was going well, since what Rosaura said had produced pangs in Tita's conscience, but when she heard for the second time what Esperanza's fate was to be, she had to make a supreme effort not to shout at her sister that it was the sickest idea she had heard in her life.†   (source)
  • She would like to stand here before him with a clear conscience.†   (source)
  • Apart from it being tactically the right thing to do, this disjunction between the man and his job helped Comrade Pillai to keep his conscience clear about his own private business dealings with Chacko.†   (source)
  • His hand had done it all, his hand, with a brain of its own, with a conscience and a curiosity in each trembling finger, had turned thief.†   (source)
  • HALE: Excellency, I have signed seventy-two death warrants; I am a minister of the Lord, and I dare not take a life without there be a proof so immaculate no slightest qualm of conscience may doubt it.†   (source)
  • And was his conscience not pricking him, leeching the sweetness from his victory?†   (source)
  • Eighty percent have decided to obey the dictates of their conscience, but the penalty will be severe.†   (source)
  • To have Peeta's death on my conscience for whatever is left of my life.†   (source)
  • No, no. You don't get to talk about conscience and decency and guilt and feel like you are doing the right thing.†   (source)
  • He answers only to the king and his own conscience, which hasn't been very active recently," said Brom.†   (source)
  • That old image of myself as a hero, as a man of conscience and courage, all that was just a threadbare pipe dream.†   (source)
  • "I had to put them up here," said Fenoglio defensively, signs of a guilty conscience lurking among his wrinkles.†   (source)
  • When alone in my room sometimes I stare at the wall and in the back of my mind I hear my conscience call The chief turned his head from side to side as if trying to understand what I was saying.†   (source)
  • Her mother wasn't a woman I wanted to offend or to hurt, but my conscience wouldn't let me refuse her if she wanted to learn.†   (source)
  • But the attack on Bressia had mobilized the Hegemony toward true interstellar war as had nothing else in three centuries, and Kassad's voice was either drowned out or dismissed as the guilty conscience of the Butcher of South Bressia.†   (source)
  • But my conscience forces me to go against this decision.†   (source)
  • However, my conscience still can't come up with a good enough argument to convince me to switch classes.†   (source)
  • I didn't want the deaths of innocents on my conscience.†   (source)
  • And now we have blood-guilt on our conscience for the dreadful injustice of murdering the Jewish inhabitants.†   (source)
  • So I told those monsters that I would never ask XXXXXXXXXX to go against what his conscience told him was right.†   (source)
  • They both developed a conscience, as we refer to it, with no outside guidance.†   (source)
  • She faces her conscience.†   (source)
  • For the first time in my life, I've gone out of my way to help someone in need, and my conscience is clear.†   (source)
  • If I do this and it kills them, will you be able to live with it on your conscience?†   (source)
  • With its gorgeous classical buildings packed with art, its clean water and electric lights, and its overstaffed police department, the exposition was Chicago's conscience, the city it wanted to become.†   (source)
  • Of all the illegal activities I had on my conscience, this was probably the one I knew least about.†   (source)
  • In spite of poetry and beautiful clothes, such people were surely not fully human—were primitive; that's a word the Portuguese must have used, to salve their conscience for what was to come.†   (source)
  • I have a clear conscience about my role in the war.†   (source)
  • My personal opinion is that everyone is endowed with this ability, so in other words, conscience is innate.†   (source)
  • And what we have before us are the rich feasts that conscience cannot appreciate and mortal men cannot know without regret.†   (source)
  • How could an offensive line coach in good conscience stick any freshman into an SEC football game, much less a lineman who didn't know the plays?†   (source)
  • Stung by the name he was given for committing a crime—which the State taught was not a crime at all—whose enormity never stopped pulling at his conscience, he never informed again.†   (source)
  • But in her heart, she's already feeling the pangs of conscience.†   (source)
  • Everything in order, everything clean, everything calm, and that solid peace of a conscience without memory.†   (source)
  • Schulz must have been seized by am attack of conscience.†   (source)
  • While we knew we weren't supposed to hop trains, I placated my conscience by deciding to get on only the slower trains.†   (source)
  • I thought maybe that was his conscience speaking.†   (source)
  • 'Well, I'll call her back in the morning, then,' Charity said, hoping to close the conversation and applying some salve to her conscience at the same time.†   (source)
  • It was the great mistake of his life, as his conscience was to remind him every hour of every day until the final day of his life.†   (source)
  • He can't in good conscience send her back into it, to become flotsam on the subsocietal tide that washes up now and then in his office, depositing others like her.†   (source)
  • He murdered Narciso because he ambushed him in cold blood, but he will not find me so easy to ambush— He is like an old wolf who drags around the ground where he has made his kill, his conscience will not let him rest.†   (source)
  • You want to clear your conscience.†   (source)
  • PYRETIC CONSCIENCE: so-called "conscience of fire"; that inhibitory level touched by Imperial conditioning.†   (source)
  • Yet if you look at the growth between conception and birth, which is greater than in any period between birth and death, no one can say in good conscience it isn't life.†   (source)
  • With the hum of his new life Papi should have found it easy to bury the memory of us but neither his conscience, nor the letters from home that found him wherever he went, would allow it.†   (source)
  • Before my conscience talked me out of it, I stepped inside and shut the door behind me, pressing my back against it.†   (source)
  • I appropriated it with a clear conscience since it looked as if he were never going to get around to it.†   (source)
  • People do have a political conscience of sorts here.†   (source)
  • I learned from him that the regimental commander and the commissar were both shot in thirty-seven, no matter whether they were of proletarian or kulak stock, whether they had a conscience or not.†   (source)
  • If Denise was a pint-sized commissar, nagging us to higher conscience, then Bee was a silent witness, calling the very meaning of our lives into question.†   (source)
  • I'm telling you, I can't have any more flower homicides on my conscience, I said.†   (source)
  • No sound but distant coyote song, I silenced my conscience, quieted my screaming nerves and slipped away unnoticed, for the moment.†   (source)
  • There were a few politicians sitting up late into the night, weighing conscience against expedience.†   (source)
  • Ann has a finely tuned social conscience, nurtured as she grew up in Cardiff surrounded by family stories of mining and political struggle.†   (source)
  • Will had a point: Blaze wasn't anything like Marcus, who had no conscience at all, and she had to be feeling just a little guilty, right?†   (source)
  • But God help me if I don't grow a conscience.†   (source)
  • Then, as death approached, it must have worked on Ghosh's conscience to be the keeper of this letter.†   (source)
  • It is a great relief to my conscience that you are not drowned, Gen. He patted my shoulder awkwardly.†   (source)
  • And deep inside me, if I could have searched the recesses, of my feeble conscience, I might have found something like: Free at last!†   (source)
  • Cullivan could scarcely credit so detached an attitude; Perry was confused, mistaken, it was not possible for any man to be that devoid of conscience or compassion.†   (source)
  • So it was with a less heavy conscience that I pushed myself through the (small) window, trying to be stealthy, and pretty much succeeding until I kicked the back of the house on my dismount, leaving a scuff mark by the electric meter.†   (source)
  • Look: I would hate to have it on my conscience if we didn't do a miracle when nice people were involved.†   (source)
  • The convocation speaker is Elie Wiesel, the 1986 Nobel Peace Prize winner, Holocaust survivor, scholar, poet, philosopher, and all-around conscience for hire.†   (source)
  • And we all have that on our conscience.†   (source)
  • Anyway I dont have a bad conscience.†   (source)
  • A while ago, he had looked at her with hard, cold eyes and talked of death and destruction, and she'd had no doubt that he could kill her or any of the children without hesitation, without conscience.†   (source)
  • Guilty conscience?†   (source)
  • It occurs to me that my conscience stopped me from killing August at the very moment someone was attempting to carry out his orders to kill me.†   (source)
  • To General Burgoyne he had written, "I would abandon the contest were I not most intimately convinced in my own conscience that our cause is just and important."†   (source)
  • He kept warning himself not to give in to compassion, and compassion listened with bowed head and a seemingly guilty conscience.†   (source)
  • They had no conscience, and no circuits which would allow them to imagine what was happening to the people on the ground.†   (source)
  • Neither could do without or do with the other; yet the constrictions of conscience and society, morality and ethos dictated a separation.†   (source)
  • My conscience began to be busy.†   (source)
  • For a little while in the morning he had to censor letters, but he was free after that to spend the rest of each day lying around idly with a clear conscience.†   (source)
  • It might be that he was just a flawed man, a man without conscience, who let his wife and children suffer and just didn't care.†   (source)
  • Things only got worse, his conscience tormented him more and more, until the night before he and Rosa were to get married and move to the bungalow on the cliff, Litvinoff got up in a cold sweat, snuck out in the middle of the night, and dug up his burden once and for all.†   (source)
  • A school system such as this could create an entire nation that would obey unquestionably, even to death, an ayatollah who served as the intelligence and conscience of the land.†   (source)
  • Well, it's how your ancestors behave, said her conscience.†   (source)
  • But my conscience doesn't have to spend the next two years making inane teatime chatter, bored to the point of catatonia.†   (source)
  • When he came to the moon-stitched curtains that hid his roommate's bed, he paused, guilt plucking at his conscience.†   (source)
  • She even had a conscience.†   (source)
  • She smoked three or four cigarettes a day, so few that she could consider herself a nonsmoker and still enjoy it without a guilty conscience.†   (source)
  • Anyone would have thought you had a guilty conscience.†   (source)
  • Parson Stanley had told us then that he could not in conscience accept the order to use the Book of Common Prayer, and that he was but one of hundreds of priests who were resigning his pulpit on that day.†   (source)
  • He's dangerous, lieutenant, not simply because he has no conscience, but because he's good at what he does.†   (source)
  • I would never understand why this girl made me grow a conscience.†   (source)
  • But with CAI under serious financial strain, Mortenson says he couldn't, in good conscience, have accepted more, even if the board had offered him a raise.†   (source)
  • That was all she meant to him anymore, a life he didn't want on his conscience.†   (source)
  • I doubt my conscience will help against them.†   (source)
  • The storm did accomplish without conscience what we had been too fainthearted to do.†   (source)
  • A man with a bad conscience, and stubborn enough to lug something this heavy all the way from Texas, he ain't a-go'n lug it back home.†   (source)
  • Afterward he picks himself up out of the street and, after making sure the door is completely closed, shakes his fist at it, dusts himself off and says, "Oh well, I tried," and in this way absolves his conscience.†   (source)
  • The rat had no morals, no conscience, no scruples, no consideration, no decency, no milk of rodent kindness, no compunctions, no higher feeling, no friendliness, no anything.†   (source)
  • I could hear him: "Stephen's problem, like ours, was not actually one of creating the uncreated conscience of his race, but of creating the uncreated features of his face.†   (source)
  • He has a sellsword's conscience, she realized then.†   (source)
  • Grabeau, my conscience, my very good friend.†   (source)
  • Already he was being compared to Einstein and to Bohr as a scientist with a conscience" an overview, an appreciation of the significance: of events.†   (source)
  • I explained how as a lawyer I was often forced to choose between compliance with the law and accommodating my conscience.†   (source)
  • Perhaps it's why I discern a conscience in you-a part of you.†   (source)
  • It was she who eased his conscience, convincing him that it would hurt her more if he missed this amazing opportunity.†   (source)
  • He was feeling groused over loss of two of his eyes and still more groused over gun crews—I think Mike was developing something like human conscience; he seemed to feel it was his fault that he had not been able to outfight six targets at once.†   (source)
  • "How, in good conscience," Alessandro asked, "can you ride across the countryside in perfect safety, as if you were on holiday, stopping mainly to swim and eat oysters, while men are crushed and pulverized in the filth of the trenches?"†   (source)
  • Who was I, my conscience argued, to judge a grown man when in so many ways I was still a pitiful child?†   (source)
  • I would not take it upon my conscience that anything produced by my mind should be used to bring them comfort.†   (source)
  • All this is to say that I believe in conscience, not as something implanted by divine act, but as something learned from infancy, from the tradition and society which has bred us.†   (source)
  • That I had composed the letter that had ruined Snow Flower's reputation raked across my conscience, so I hushed this talk whenever I heard it.†   (source)
  • It will be for you to clean it from your conscience; to go down on your knees and pray — pray that your sin of intention, as well as your other sins, may be forgiven you.†   (source)
  • I'll place no bonds on yer will, but I'll have yer oath, for me own good conscience, that ye'll never raise this weapon against the people o' Ten-Tbwns!†   (source)
  • You'll be helping exercise the horses, so you can consider it a job if it eases your conscience.†   (source)
  • Ignoring the question, Joe said, "If something's on your mind—or on your conscience—take time to think about it.†   (source)
  • Sick or a professional without a conscience.†   (source)
  • Now I was tempted to tell my father that Jack Rose was probably using his money to salve a bad conscience.†   (source)
  • Maybe a writer of conscience.†   (source)
  • He is a man who knows history is always present, is the last hour of his friend Lakdasa blacking out in the blue sea at Mount Lavinia where the tourists go to sunbathe, is the burned down wall that held those charcoal drawings whose passionate conscience should have been cut into rock.†   (source)
  • And John Bunyan: "I will stay in jail to the end of my days before I make a butchery of my conscience."†   (source)
  • But apparently that action preyed on King's conscience.†   (source)
  • My conscience just can't bear it:' Landers sat back and rubbed his forehead with the back of his hand.†   (source)
  • If so, I'm scared stiff that if ever you gain any weight you'll be as victimized as the next young actor into contributing to the reliable Hollywood amalgam of prizefighter and mystic, gunman and underprivileged child, cowhand and Man's Conscience, and the rest.†   (source)
  • If you're good to them, you might appeal to their conscience—if they have any conscience.†   (source)
  • The influences of honor, oaths, reputations, conscience, love of country, and family affections and attachments afford security for their fidelity.†   (source)
  • They don't have a conscience just as much as they don't have a life.†   (source)
  • So we ate with easy conscience, for I would not like to have taken from the store of a family who were for all their kindness only strangers to us, and who moreover had enough mouths of their own to feed.†   (source)
  • Gabriel was the team's founder and leader, but a sixth member, Dina Sarid, was its conscience and institutional memory.†   (source)
  • The power of evil burned through the conscience of the regiment, and it was the same as the power of love and grief.†   (source)
  • Harriet, conscience-stricken, believing that her prayers had killed Edward Brodas, ignored the fear in the voices, the faces, of the slaves.†   (source)
  • I would have flared an ugliness of anger and he would then have been able to evict me with pleasure and good conscience.†   (source)
  • Don't tell me Smiley's conscience goes that far.†   (source)
  • He was a disk jockey who worked further along the Peninsula and suffered regular crises of conscience about his profession.†   (source)
  • At night he began to have trouble sleeping, to feel he was prostituting his conscience and his editorial responsibilities.†   (source)
  • If, however, there is no reasonable doubt—then you must, in good conscience, find the accused guilty.†   (source)
  • "Are you certain," asked the Enlightened One, "that you do not seek merely to punish yourself for what has been weighing upon your conscience as a failure, or a sin?"†   (source)
  • "I think things might get better," I murmured with what could only seem, in the innermost part of my conscience, despairing optimism.†   (source)
  • HORNBECK I charge you with contempt of conscience!†   (source)
  • If the public wants cheap and worthless education—not schooling but a sop for the public conscience—someone will come to provide it.†   (source)
  • For the last few weeks his conscience had been pricking him.†   (source)
  • While More's alive the King's conscience breaks into fresh stinking flowers every time he gets from bed.†   (source)
  • It was taken for granted that you listened to reason, that it was right and natural to do what your conscience told you to do.†   (source)
  • The less you say about Edmund's sickness, the better for your conscience!†   (source)
  • I couldn't answer to my conscience if I did.†   (source)
  • That's one more person on my conscience.†   (source)
  • All the others were there with him waiting, and Lucy's conscience smote her when she saw their anxious faces and realized how long she had forgotten them.†   (source)
  • With a good conscience our only sure reward, with history the final judge of our deeds, let us go forth to lead the land we love, asking His blessing and His help, but knowing that here on earth God's work must truly be our own.†   (source)
  • Me, I have a little girl to sew for-she was right there, asleep on the bed in the next room-and it hurts my conscience being that lucky over Snowdie too.†   (source)
  • His actions and protests, his courage to risk safety, and even to risk his life, have awakened the conscience of this nation.†   (source)
  • But his super-ego...his conscience, could not permit him to go unpunished for such a horrible crime.†   (source)
  • Yet his conscience bothered him for not insisting that the assistant accept a better wage than he was getting, though Feld had honestly told him he could earn a handsome salary if he worked elsewhere or maybe opened a place of his own.†   (source)
  • A poverty that allows a tiny margin for spending, but which is shadowed always by a weight of debt that nags like a conscience is worse than starvation itself.†   (source)
  • I wasn't either, when I said my conscience should be.†   (source)
    conscience = feeling or appraisal of having personally behaved in a morally right or wrong manner
  • It might be best if I had a conscience that was armed and independent.†   (source)
  • For these were the hands that had acted on their own, no part of him, here was where the conscience first manifested itself to, snatch books, dart of with Job and Ruth and Willie Shakespeare, and now, in the firehouse, these hands seemed gloved with blood.†   (source)
  • 'Yeah,' said Harry; this was perfectly true, although his conscience squirmed slightly all the same.†   (source)
  • "Do you want his beating on your conscience?" she continued.†   (source)
  • At least your conscience would be clean.†   (source)
  • It had allowed his mortal conscience to take over again, and defeat Kronos.†   (source)
  • DANFORTH: No, old man, you have not hurt these people if they are of good conscience.†   (source)
  • But the pangs of her conscience wouldn't let her.†   (source)
  • I thought I would be exempt from the...depression...that accompanies a conscience.†   (source)
  • My pesky mortal conscience must have been acting up.†   (source)
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