Sentence examples for capacity for guilt from inspiring English sources
Born into the lap of luxury and taught that your sh*t does not stink (a.k.a., the making of a narcissist), he has no capacity for guilt, shame or remorse.
To get the money you'll either need to be sufficiently wealthy that a $25 million expenditure is pocket change or you'll need to do things that make a person with an average capacity for shame and guilt feel like they have done something terribly wrong.
She inhabits the very soul of the character, and lets you see Didion's honesty, guilt, irony, and capacity for self-examination.
On the other hand, a lack of guilt, a low capacity for empathy and callous-unemotional traits in adolescence are known to predict the occurrence of criminal behaviour as well as instrumental violence [ 8], and some of the shooters have been described as having poor anger control, a lack of empathy, features of narcissism as well as feelings of superiority [ 9].
A subtype of conduct disorder has been described in which the adolescent lacks a sense of guilt, has a low capacity for empathy, manipulates others and is callous and unemotional [ 52].
(Not to mention a cause for guilt and resentment.
Be prepared for guilt to slink in.
Until the anger paves way for guilt.
As retold from the perspective of his sister Glory, his story becomes a profound exploration of guilt, grace and humanity's capacity for forgiveness.
By the end of this short, intense novel it becomes clear that the collision between our hard-won new capacity for frankness and a deep-rooted sense of archaic guilt and grief is precisely Greenwell's subject.
