Many people often want to be locked into an annual gym contract, believing that paying a big sum up front will guilt them into going to the gym later.
Where journalists write about what people are arguing about in public, and novelists about what they are talking about in private, only poets seem able to show that what people argue about in public is identical to what they talk about in private, that what we are arguing about is the sum of our own guilts, fears, anxieties, hopes.
Her feelings of being targeted unjustly did not seem to be accompanied by guilt over the sums of money that members of her family had evidently acquired while she was in office.
The PDS is defined as the sum of the scores for Anxiety, Guilt Feelings, Depressive Mood and Hostility items from the scales subtracted from the score of Blunted Affect [ 9].
My experience with guilt over receiving a large sum of money after my husband's death was not uncommon.
The title pretty much sums up the goal of the book: guilt by association.
Seven in 10 said they thought it unacceptable for schools to even ask for such sums – but 47% said that the pressure and guilt were such that they ended up paying.
To sum it up, be prepared, take a breath, let go of guilt, start a new tradition, enjoy the season, and do something for yourself!
How best to sum up this emotion – a compound of sadness, trepidation, hope, confusion, excitement and guilt – I'm not sure.
The Republican party might best be summed up as organized selfishness, while the Democratic party is organized selfishness with guilt.
