Sentence examples for conscience beneath from inspiring English sources

Rosalind Plowright's decrepit Countess, surrounded by obsequious religious types, has buried her past and her conscience beneath an assumed veneer of sanctimony.

When her no-good brother, Rooster (a very good Clarke Thorell), proposes a scheme to swindle Oliver Warbucks and make Annie "disappear," you detect glimmers of a conscience beneath her snarling exterior.

The famous five of Wisteria Lane Susan Mayer (Teri Hatcher) Married to Mike Delfino and mother of five-year-old MJ and teenager Julie (who left in series four), Susan is quirky and slightly annoying, but there's a conscience beneath the ditziness.

Astin comes across as a perfectly nice, sweet teen-ager and Newley is wasted in an ill-defined part, but Barberi manages to suggest some twinges of conscience beneath a hard-as-nails surface.

(After having trouble getting paid by a couple of the women for his merchandise: "You're worse than freshmen").. Sam, a single mom who has a son about Jonathan's age, has a persistent need to party, a tendency to put the flighty in flight attendant and a darker edge — even a conscience — beneath the cynical surface.

Elected peers would also be less free-thinking, less rebellious, their consciences buckling beneath the might of the party whips.

"We should support Palestinian producers to help our economy," he said beneath a sign declaring "My conscience is clear – my store is clean of settlement produce".

That October morning, Solomon gazed back at Me'eter prison where he had spent nearly two years, living beneath a vast tent with almost 500 other prisoners of conscience caught during the government's crackdown on Eritrea's minority churches.

She is also, beneath the frothy surface, standing up to various unshakable orthodoxies — most bravely that abortion should weigh on a woman's conscience like infanticide.

He is voluble, excitable, eloquent, literate, and streetwise, wears Giorgio Armani suits beneath a Philip Guston stubbled head, and is a man of divided attentions, if not conscience.

Social conscience.