conscience
Example Sentences
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How horrifying to think of all that capability and intellect, unmoored from a conscience.
Her nagging conscience slips into offhand conversation: “I should probably be vegan,” Askell, an animal lover too busy for a pet, says when chatting in an office elevator.
There is nothing new about the bad conscience or self-destructive urge that Baudrillard identified within Western civilization, or about its deeply rooted conflict between incompatible tendencies we might call liberation and domination.
From Salon
Together, these incidents illustrate how the Winter Olympics have become a platform not just for athletic achievement, but also for public expressions of conscience.
From Salon
As police helicopters buzzed overhead monitoring the demonstration nearby, the archbishop called on God to “awaken again the conscience of Americans.”
From Los Angeles Times
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