The pay-what-you-like policy has caused a certain amount of anxiety among diners, much as the pay-what-you-wish policy at, say, the Metropolitan Museum can cause crises of conscience in the face of a ticket-taking docent's all-knowing gaze.
The honorees were selected for their persistent advocacy of freedom of conscience in the face of imprisonment and ongoing persecution in their home countries.
"More monitoring and engagement alone cannot suffice in the face of crimes that shock the conscience of humanity," Kirby said.
That changed for him in America, where he tended to follow his conscience in the face of danger.
In his 2009 Nobel prize speech, Obama said that inaction in the face of mass slaughter "tears at our conscience and can lead to most costly intervention later".
Verdi's freethinking nobleman, the defender of man's individual spiritual conscience in the face of the crushing forces of organised religion, is a role Hampson was perhaps born to play, and his performances both at the Royal Opera House and the Edinburgh festival linger in the memory as definitive.
In seeking their solace they vote and they pray their way to a seemingly clear conscience in the face of broad-daylight genocide.
Antigone Georgia's Marjanishvili Theatre arrives with a casually beautiful, universally relevant production of this tragedy of conscience and resistance in the face of absolute power.
Amnesty International said the conviction was a "slap in the face of freedom expression" and called Nabil a "prisoner of conscience" who had peacefully expressed his views.
This instalment feels like a final reckoning or conscience-clearing in the face of Miss R's stern idealism.
Jewish by birth, Miller is interested in the tension between "individual conscience and responsibility in the face of inhuman orders".
