Unpleasant, most of all, because you felt complicit.
Speaking in a gravelly monotone, he did say that he felt "complicit" in the disintegration of their marriage and the violent episodes that accompanied it.
I think at both ends of the spectrum I felt complicit and therefore question not only my personal but also my professional life choices.
No, Valerie Eliot had been possessed by love, and it stayed in her possession, and one felt complicit in it, talking to her.
Sacks observed his subjects with a naturalist's dispassion, and when his descriptions made me laugh or gasp or turn the page to find out more about the person's predicament I felt complicit.
Every day, every action, every relationship had been defined by his efforts to cover and hide his secret -- and the sin wasn't even his, though he felt complicit in it.
He felt complicit, and after a few months, he quit.
In those moments I felt complicit in their abuse.
I felt complicit in his death and my love for football has been waning ever since.
This--the needless death of millions of children--is the great injustice of our time, and, sitting there by her side, I too felt complicit.
