conscience-stricken

Example Sentences

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He would later portray himself as a conscience-stricken and unwilling participant in Hitler’s crimes, and his gamble on the sympathy of the judges at Nuremberg paid off.

From The Wall Street Journal

Instead, Anna Waterhouse and Joe Shrapnel’s script spends too much time observing Seberg’s fictional and ultimately conscience-stricken nemesis, the F.B.I.

From New York Times

The closest match might be to an 18th-century Gothic romance: the alluring lady of the manor, the hard-driving bull of a mill owner, the conscience-stricken young priest, the final drama played out in the drenching rain and stormlight.

From New York Times

We not only feel the stifling turmoil of his conscience-stricken sense of survival but also the chilly outlook on an ashy-gray landscape from which one might think only of escape and eventually the roiling ill at a literal and figurative burden.

From Los Angeles Times

Greed overwhelms them when they hit pay dirt, but later they become conscience-stricken as, sure enough, lives are lost and the immorality of the mission bites hard.

From Seattle Times