Sentence examples for a guilty conscience about from inspiring English sources

He died in 1944 and now they have a guilty conscience about it.

Prosecutors will argue that they reveal a guilty conscience about the ImClone sale.

If they did not, they would have a guilty conscience about their privileges.

I won't have a guilty conscience about idling my way across Europe.

The charge was brought by Robert, and he must have nursed a guilty conscience about it to keep a file, which reveals that the trial was a sham.

It is hard to escape the feeling that Bernstein has written this book in part to stem a guilty conscience about his own past.

Played with a haunting resolve by Mary Kay Place, she goes about her day making lists and serving others, penance for a guilty conscience, though about what exactly isn't clear.

No author really minds, too much, seeing his or her ideas "out there," to be recycled, and even a conceptual artist has a slightly guilty conscience about trading in that commodity alone.

The UK may have a particularly guilty conscience about Hong Kong – as indeed it should have.

We all have a guilty conscience, but we do very little about it".

The French, perhaps out of a guilty conscience, are inclined to be very sensitive to arguments about appeasement, and yet they tend to be skeptical of arguments about weapons of mass destruction, a skepticism that now looks quite rational.