He would not let his conscience strike a bargain with his lower nature, and he suffered for it.
But suddenly -- one routine morning, while she was scrolling through e-mail at her desk -- conscience struck.
Jenny didn't respond, and now her conscience is stricken, all the more so because the woman, who is of African descent, will be buried without a name.
I, too, sympathize with Jesse, appreciate his pricks of conscience, feel stricken when he suffers, root for his redemption, and feel very differently about him generally than I do about his mentor and partner in crime.
At other times, Liu's persistent advances and Wu's conscience- stricken refusals recall the buffoonery of Henry Fielding's "Joseph Andrews," in which the title character, a handsome, virtuous young footman, resists the indelicate overtures of his employer — that proto-cougar, Lady Booby.
Last year's mass change of heart showed how suddenly the lightning of conscience can strike.
When was his prise de conscience "It struck me as a little boy; it struck me growing up," he says, "and as soon as I had the ability to start making a difference, I did it.
Cardinal O'Boyle was adamant in defending the ban, and when a group of priests issued a statement asserting the right of individuals to be governed by their conscience, he struck back with suspensions and other disciplinary measures against those who did not recant.
Catesby (Mr. Daood), who initially registers as a dim, fatuous hatchet man, is stricken by conscience after committing the play's most heinous murder and asks himself, in genuine agony, what he has in fact become.
