conscience

Example Sentences

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I am not sure endowing Sonny with a social conscience, presumably intended to point up the material’s contemporary relevance, is an improvement.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 31, 2026

But unlike that Oscar winner, “Two Prosecutors” has a man of conscience at its center — a confident crusader who becomes increasingly puny in the face of Stalin’s Soviet Union.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 26, 2026

"We can say this with a clear conscience: the pipeline itself has not been damaged," Zsolt Hernadi, the CEO of the Hungarian energy company MOL told the ATV channel on 2 March.

From BBC • Mar. 20, 2026

Resisting its pull requires that people of conscience and others who support real democracy engage in acts of moral witnessing and radical empathy.

From Salon • Mar. 3, 2026

“I don’t have much of a conscience where food is concerned, especially when I’m hungry.”

From "Gone Crazy in Alabama" by Rita Williams-Garcia