There seem to be a lot of words for feelings of guilt, such as qualm,
compunction and scruple.
I have no
compunction about calling the police if people try it on."
This is a collection that metes out unfiltered bits of hard reality without
compunction.
His topics are art and
compunction: Francesco Bocchi's mystical experience of art; Leon Battista Alberti's "De pictura" and the Christian tradition of the liberal arts; the works of God and the book of the world in the writings of Leonardo da Vinci; imaging the souls of holy people; invention and amplification: imagining sacred history; and Vasari's city of God: spirituality, art, and architecture in Vasari's "Lives" and "Ragionamenti." ([umlaut] Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR)
Those who rule -- whether presidents or prime ministers, members of Congress or members of Parliament -- may pay lip service to freedom of speech and the press, but when those freedoms are turned against them, they can have little
compunction about abusing their power in an effort to keep tabs on the watchdogs or even silence them, if necessary.
Obviously if cuts have to be imposed the staff costs are the major item and they had no
compunction about targeting nursing staff.
Mr Martin, Fife RECORD columnist Joan McAlpine seems to have no
compunction about stereotyping the Tory "babes".
Most of our celebrities have no
compunction promoting the wrong message.
Those who RACK up so many points are either potentially dangerous drivers or those who have no
compunction in ignoring our traffic laws.
AS THE city council seems to have no shame in presenting a couple of lawns and paths as a vibrant "Green Space", Red Button has no
compunction in reheating an idea which, probably like the council's sketch, took several minutes to complete.
The rhetoric of the Tampa and Charlotte party convention spectacles demonstrated that collectivists of the right and left have no such
compunction and are eager to run our lives for us.
He has no
compunction knocking over a kid in a wheelchair.