conscience-stricken

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He would later portray himself as a conscience-stricken and unwilling participant in Hitler’s crimes, and his gamble on the sympathy of the judges at Nuremberg paid off.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 24, 2025

The production, executed to perfection, starred Ron Bottitta and Patrick Keleher as the radicalized father and his conscience-stricken son in a tense dramatic standoff that told a story about America we’re still convulsively living through.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 9, 2024

Most of those who did get out were rescued only by the initiative of conscience-stricken troops and diplomats in Kabul, and by a loose network of tireless volunteers working around-the-clock stateside.

From Washington Post • Feb. 1, 2022

In “Please Give,” Keener’s character—a conscience-stricken dealer of mid-century-modern furniture that she buys from children of the recently deceased—leaves a restaurant and offers her leftovers to an elderly African-American man standing outside.

From The New Yorker • Jul. 30, 2018

Harriet, conscience-stricken, believing that her prayers had killed Edward Brodas, ignored the fear in the voices, the faces, of the slaves.

From "Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad" by Ann Petry