Sentence examples for tormented conscience from inspiring English sources
"Bliss" was written before the recent cycle of suicide bombings and reprisals made such innocent deaths a commonplace, providing pain more unendurable than that of a tormented conscience.
Thwarted love, unrecognized goodwill, humiliated greatness, the tormented conscience of the soldier who detests war but fights on energetically these are more than just general ideas: they express a wounded sensitivity and a soul torn by moral scruples.
What provoked this aria was not remorse or a tormented conscience; a mirror had given her a confidential glimpse of her oversized bum in a mirror and, like every other self-advertising neurotic on reality TV, she was acting up for the cameras.
Richter's elegantly tormented aesthetic conscience merely fascinates in the Drawing Center's "Lines Which Do Not Exist," a show of rarely exhibited drawings dating from 1966 to 2005.
"People hold a stereotype of the liar — as tormented, anxious, and conscience-stricken," DePaulo and Bond write.
She's tormented, and wary.
Peche's tormented state is illuminating.
He remembers every tormented detail.
Thomas is a tormented man.
Frank Springer, meanwhile, is somewhat tormented.
