The chocolate icing on Chaim's face told one story; the compunctions of the rest told another.
The reality is different: Macintyre points out that it was MI5, overwhelmingly staffed by ex-coppers, who ensured that Philby sloped off to his Kremlin paymasters in 1963, despite the compunctions of his class allies in MI6.
Here's my rule of thumb: Whenever the defense and entertainment industries seem to join hands -- whenever the blood of dead Third Worlders is publicly cheered without restraint or the least compunction, and the activity is called patriotism -- the only flag we ought to be waving is a red one.
So, OK: both the sensation of other people's drug use and the girlish compunction to judge it is gross.
Mr. Marshall seems not to have shared the same compunction about his mother's possessions.
One should recall that More, far from being the liberal-cum-existentialist portrayed in Robert Bolt's play A Man for All Seasons, showed not the slightest compunction in torturing and executing heretics.
Certain angles embody specific ideals within the physical compunction of mortar and stone.
The irony is that I knew it already, most of us do, and the route to a healthier relationship with food is to cut out the shame, the guilt, the idea of compunction and compensation and come back to what we already know.
So, as the admiral said, the smugglers "have no compunction in abandoning the ship, given the profit margin".
But despite the ruling, there is no legal compunction on the politicians at the Stormont assembly to change the law to allow terminations in Northern Ireland for those who become pregnant through rape or incest, or are carrying a baby with fatal foetal abnormalities.
