Sentence examples for deep guilt from inspiring English sources

He felt deep guilt over the wrongs he had committed and looked forward to his death.

I have never gone through periods of deep guilt or doubt that the EC was going wrong".

He had felt deep guilt about an order he gave in Iraq for a missile strike that killed women and children.

Christ is "the wounded surgeon" but not otherwise here; Eliot feels the deep guilt of the redemptive sacrifice of incarnate flesh but not the joy of birth or resurrection.

More privileged New Yorkers, some of whom are more familiar with poverty from their travels to the third world than from exploration within their hometown, unearth deep guilt among the piles of donated clothes as they come face to face with misery that existed so close to home even before the storm.

Gone was the old idealism, and it its place was a harder, grittier knowledge of life as brutal and indifferent mixed with deep guilt and regret and the sense that nothing so terrible and so utterly transformative would happen again, at least to them.

Or more tellingly, as removed from empathic distress as the message sent to the next of kin, after an official knock on the door: "The Secretary of Defense regrets to inform you that…." Indeed, the soldiers I've talked to, involved in friendly fire accidents that took their comrades' lives, didn't feel regret for what happened, but raw, deep, unabashed guilt.

Perhaps it's an expression of a deep national guilt, an attempt to expiate an original sin.

Whip is a proud man, but Washington lets us see the narcissism and the self-pity behind the pride, a ready access to anger that gives Whip a moment of relief, as he tells people off, drawing deeper into guilt and futility.

Did this particular Apple petition bring anything new to the company's attention, or was it merely an echo of complaints, and the deep-rooted guilt of privilege that Apple consumers continually face?

And we have such a deep-seated guilt that we handed this poison water to our children.