Sentence examples for my scruples from inspiring English sources

The longer I stayed in there, the more I got my scruples back, and the more I got in touch with who I was before all this started".

After my 34th or 35th unreturned phone call to independent businesses in the Dallas area, I set aside my scruples about major chains and went for an interview at a nearby International House of Pancakes.

To her, my scruple was an oversight.

My biographical scruples were doing battle with fictional licence.

He wrote to Larkin, "So I then thought that... it would be intolerable, if through my miserable scruples, anything nasty was to happen to Hilly.

Not something my feminist scruples would have permitted had I been a woman — but the most traditional act can be radicalized by its context.

My weak, deluded scruples could avail nothing against the iron word of the prophet.

Suddenly the hydrant seemed to offer a perfectly good parking place, which had been their idea in the first place — I needed fifteen minutes to get rid of my city-dwelling scruples and reach their level of survival pragmatism.

Karen, Syracuse, N.Y.: When I was in sixth grade, I somehow got my hands on and read "Scruples" by Judith Krantz.

That she disapproved of those methods was clear when she added, "My heroine belongs to the day when scruples existed".

I started thinking about all the books I grew up loving so much – Riders, Savages, and Scruples, and ideas sprang into my head for a modern version of that kind of chunky, sweeping novel".