Inasmuch as rock music of the period was powerful, revolutionary, urgently appealing to the conscience-stricken generation of 1968, and of lasting significance therefore in the cultural life of the nation, and indeed the globe, I was struck by how far the creators of these mostly cheap, vertically-oriented small-scale ad hoc posters and handbills were content to borrow every conceivable form of artistic idea from other people. ❋ Unknown (2009)
While still one-tenth of the price of real fur, with no conscience-stricken feelings of guilt when buying it. ❋ Chloe Spencer (2011)
The man's knowing complicity becomes his undoing and his and his loyal but conscience-stricken wife's world is impacted in ways that, even for one who believes that conscience is a Damoclesian sword hanging over the heads of the those who propagate the type of moral corruption epitomized by the character of "Kenneth Hoyle," rarely if ever hears about nowadays. ❋ Steven Weber (2011)
Meanwhile, Buscemi's mob boss Nucky Thompson was busy threatening his conscience-stricken paramour Margaret Kelly Macdonald in case she decides to testify against him for having her husband whacked. ❋ Unknown (2011)
Zina Saunders Although this is his first Met appearance as Boris, it is the third time Mr. Pape is portraying the conscience-stricken czar of 16th-century Russia, having essayed the role at the Berlin State Opera in 2005 and at the rebuilt Semper Oper in 2008. ❋ Barrymore Laurence Scherer (2010)
Are there weak, conscience-stricken, anonymous whistle-blowing links at the fringes of even the darkest recesses of power as is evident from the centre of the WikiLeaks storm that cannot bear the burden of carrying power's dirtiest secrets? ❋ Ethan Casey (2012)
The act shockingly showed the depths of Nuck's soullessness, especially after he swore he would repent to his conscience-stricken new bride, Margaret Kelly Macdonald. ❋ Unknown (2011)
Handyman Fergus McNulty was Johnny-on-the-spot in Rouen on May 30, 1431, when the conscience-stricken brute assigned to set Joan of Arc ablaze pretended that he couldn't get the kindling lit, hoping to win the Maid of Orleans a stay of execution. ❋ Joe Queenan (2011)
Director Lu Chuan juxtaposes epic scenes of mass carnage with the intimate stories of characters both real and invented, including the compassionate Nazi businessman John Rabe (John Paisley) who stands up to the Japanese (shades of "Schindler's List"), a heroic prostitute (Jiang Yiyan), and a young, conscience-stricken Japanese soldier (Hideo Nakaizumi). ❋ Steve Dollar (2011)
"Uncle Tom's Cabin" was abolitionist propaganda, but it was also a brilliant novel that intertwined the stories of a host of memorable characters: the long-suffering slave Uncle Tom, the sadistic overseer Simon Legree, the defiant fugitive George Harris, the antic slave girl Topsy, the conscience-stricken slave owner Augustine St. Clare, and a teeming cast of abolitionists, Southerners and African-Americans. ❋ Fergus M. Bordewich (2011)
A 22-year-old Army intelligence analyst, Pfc. Bradley Manning, the apparently conscience-stricken whistleblower who passed the video on to WikiLeaks, has recently been charged with 12 counts of illegal dissemination of classified data -- just about the most heinous crime it's possible to commit in the Secrecy State. ❋ Unknown (2010)
The book has a bit too much of the conscience-stricken Westerner swooning over the dark-skinned rebel, but Ms. Connelly is a hugely engaging writer. ❋ Unknown (2010)
