Why detail their weaknesses if not to draw General Clark into guilt by association?
Rosie's ideals are a defensive cover for her general insecurity and guilt about her sluttish past.
It will not tell you that I am hopelessly disorganised, prone to fretting and general first world guilt, and scarily obsessed by my two beautiful black dogs.
The volume of media coverage created the perception that where there's smoke, there must be fire, and a general presumption of guilt resulted.
Boy George, however, went with a more general mix of guilt and mournfulness, like a crested woodpecker that has just attacked a drainpipe and drowned a family of chipmunks by mistake.
My mind is consumed by a general feeling of guilt because I feel I'm bringing up an emotionally unstable family: I'm not very competent, or available, when I am this shattered.
By last January, with a raging case of adult acne that no one could solve and a general halo of guilt every time I ate a bag of potato chips on the couch or ordered a bellini at brunch, I knew I had to change my approach.
This feeling of hopelessness may present itself as an inability to do schoolwork, a lack of interest in things that once interested him or her, and general expressions of guilt, even when you know the circumstance is not the child's fault.
Should "not guilty" as charged (if that were to be the verdict) be read the same as "without guilt" in general?
(There's a hint of the theme, in an extraordinary soliloquy, in which Devereaux says, "I'm lucky I'm not a Christian," in the midst of general, cynical speculation about guilt without fear of the afterlife; it's a strong idea, but one that's detached from practical politics).
