Sentence examples for compunction than that from inspiring English sources

I could take a human life, if necessary, with far less compunction than that of a poor, unreasoning, irresponsible brute".

Mr. Smithers has no compunction about that.

But as an artist, I do seek attention for my work – I want to express and communicate ideas, and I refuse to feel compunction for that.

I have learned, living abroad, that I am American to the marrow of my bones and I feel no compunction about that.

The first verse described d'evils as a criminal compunction; now it seems more like a narrative compunction — a disease that makes you talk too much.

This desire to check is strong, unnevering compunction and one that is assuaged by a simple bootie.

Now I have no compunction about that.... 'The Importance of Being Earnest' is important, but it says nothing about anything".

He can assure Brentano that he will "always be your friend", only to announce four years later that Brentano is one of the few people he would happily murder "with no more compunction than putting out a cigarette".

Discussing rulers like Fidel Castro and Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, they declare that "when it is in our power and our interest, we should toss dictators aside with no more compunction than a police sharpshooter feels when he downs a hostage-taker".

So it wasn't without compunction that I again swatted the request from LinkedIn into trash.

It's a measure of the artist's usual compunction that so slight a gesture startles.