Sentence examples for induce guilt from inspiring English sources

Because their main purpose is to induce guilt about not reading, Bloom's recent books become arguments against it.

Breaks can induce guilt because they're "this little oasis of personal time that we get while we're selling ourselves to someone else," Professor Trougakos says.

For Christmas celebrants who heed their consumption of energy, water and other natural resources throughout the year, the annual gift-giving bonanza can induce guilt.

As the museum's chairman, Messer is on a mission to use the legacy of the six million to manipulate the world, induce guilt, raise money, noodge wayward Jews back into the fold and feed his own ego.

He is troubled by the politically correct charge sheet, the "seven deadly sins of the secular state" that are designed to induce guilt in the white middle-class male: "racism, misogyny, homophobia, elitism, smoking, obesity, religious belief".

Many European cuisines make a virtue of using small, and delicious, species from the lower reaches of the food chain, so a trip to a seaside shack or a chippy need not induce guilt.

One time, on a long trip on a military plane, we were talking about how our parents induced guilt.

My hesitation induces guilt; it makes me ask myself if I am harming my patients by not acting as fast or aggressively as some of my colleagues would.

Giving human features to the recycling effort boosted compliance, and what's more, it clearly did so by inducing guilt feelings.

Although it was a clear expected outcome, inducing guilt in the viewers wasn't the primary intention of the project," he tells Creators.

In the academic journal American Speech, linguist Ben Zimmer defines slut-shaming (or what is sometimes known as "slut-bashing") as "publicly deriding women who engage in sexual activity the speaker considers taboo, usually to modify behavior by inducing guilt or to assign blame".