Sentence examples for our guilt for from inspiring English sources

Just two months ago, we were in heated debate about baseball's mere place in our sudden crisis culture, grappling with our guilt for even caring about when the season should resume and El Duque's condition and the long nights of the postseason to come.

Linking the cash register to the heart seems to be an outgrowth of the peculiar fantasy that says if we just buy the right fair-trade coffee, the right $3 water, the right salvaged wood for our absolutely gorgeous new flooring, we can alleviate most of the suffering in the world — along with our guilt for ignoring the pleas for help that arrive in the mail and confront us on the street daily.

4. Calculate the exercise burn We often tell ourselves that we'll assuage our guilt for overeating by burning it off at the gym the next day.

When we give our dust bunnies the dignity of a name, it lessens our guilt for leaving them to dwell in these conditions for an undetermined length of time.

If digging up our gardens, getting an allotment, shopping at farmers' markets, growing organically and eating sustainably is seen as a sign of our collective guilt for what we have done to the planet, then so be it.

But whilst taking to task public servants may assuage our collective guilt for a while, and is probably necessary in some cases, it fails to acknowledge that all of us need to be on the look out for vulnerable kids as, by definition, they are hard to spot.

A columnist in the Russian newspaper Vedomosti traced Avatars popularity to its giving the audience a chance to make a moral choice between good and evil and, by emotionally siding with Jake's treason, to relieve "us the scoundrels" of our collective guilt for the cruel and unjust world that we have created.

He added: "For our part, we have been reflecting on them deeply, acknowledging our guilt and our need for forgiveness".

(Is this whole phenomenon therapy for our guilt over having put Hillary through the wringer? Discuss).

Can we die that death and not make black people responsible for our guilt and neglect?

It's one of the main means we have for handling our guilt about the suffering of children in our rich nation.