How To Use Remorse In A Sentence

Some of it is maybe "agenbite of inwit," the Middle English phrase meaning remorse of conscience. Rectitude Chic
Remorse and guilt are incomprehensible to the perpetratorsat this stage of the game because all significant players were for sale, andwere therefore immune to their own remorse. Is the Dem Congress Criminally Insane?
She agrees but instantly feels remorse. The Sun
His investigation reveals a twisted labyrinth of deception and betrayal, with remorseless vixen Kitty Collins at the center.
It is such a mouth as we can imagine some remorseless inquisitor to have had -- that is, not an inquisitor filled with holy zeal for what he mistakenly thought the cause of Christ demanded, but a spleeny, envious, rancorous shaveling, who tortured men from hatred of their superiority to him, and sheer love of inflicting pain. Andersonville — Volume 1

He said: 'There is a remorseless logic to it. The Sun
He's going to make a statement at the end of these hearings and it sounds typically remorseless.
Am I remorseful that it got out of hand and escalated into mass hysteria?
Joe (Cage), a remorseless hitman, is in Bangkok to execute four enemies of a ruthless crime boss named Surat. NEW POSTER: BROTOX DANGEROUS (UPDATE)
The critics have slammed the film remorselessly.
They likewise carefully watch the corpse by night and day till the time of interment, and conceive that the deil tinkles at the lykewake of those who felt in their dead-thraw the agonies and terrors of remorse. Notes
Here, the character Ms. Kudrow plays is far from sympathetic—she's psychotherapist Fiona Wallice, a charlatan, and a remorseless, self-obsessed one, busy peddling what she's fond of describing as her new "treatment modality. Therapy as Shock Treatment
Sadly, decency has been replaced in great measure by coarseness hence the absence of remorse or contrition.
-- despiritualize me completely -- does it mean eventual barrenness, eventual remorse, failure? Flappers and Philosophers
Plus an unpleasant whiff of effluent as in the previous week's remorseless attacks on Cherie Blair, not for anything she's said or done but for the way she looks.
The transcripts depict Davis weeping with remorse at several points during the confession.
You were under the influence of a violent and controlling man, but you have shown no remorse - you brazened the trial out.
Japan's prime minister is expressing what he calls keen remorse and heartfelt apologies for his country's role in World War II. CNN Transcript Aug 15, 2005
The violence is remorseless and disturbing. Times, Sunday Times
‘It just isn't accurate to say none of them show remorse and that they are all recidivists,’ she said.
As the acuteness of this remorse began to die away, it was succeeded by a sense of joy.
Widowed, and with a little child, he felt violent pangs of transient remorse, and hymned his dead wife in vintage Nineties poet's minor melody.
Did she have any buyer 's remorse? Times, Sunday Times
Opportunity is a source of damage, failing, regret or remorse for those who abuse or misuse it. Dr T.P.Chia
We should not expect anything resembling genuine remorse. The Sun
On it goes, year after remorseless year, nibbling away at savings, forcing more and ever more stringent economies on the individual until the point is reached at which there are no more economies to be made.
Australia found twined round its boughs, the misletoe, with its many home associations -- the elegant cedar -- the close-growing mangrove -- and strange parasitical plants, pushing through huge fungi, and clasping with the remorseless strength of the wrestler, and with the round crunching folds of the boa, the trees they were gradually to supplant and destroy. A Love Story
The Earle of Pancalier aduertised hereof, began incontinently to feele a certaine remorse of conscience, which inwardly gript hym so nere, as he endured a torment lyke to very death. The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1
I like the slow pace, the remorseless march towards excellence, my own drooping eyelids. Times, Sunday Times
We are told often how close to genius his work is, how unhappy he is, and how remorseful.
She knew that the next day she would be guilty and full of remorse.
That thought, which completes the voluntary disherison of the mother, adds to the misery of her last moments and fills them with such a flood of remorse and regret that, notwithstanding her determination to be brave, she weeps and weeps. The Nabob, Vol. 2 (of 2)
I have come to realise that he was born entirely without a conscience or a sense of remorse.
Certain penitents, in a show of incredible remorse (absurd stupidity? faith?), have themselves nailed to crosses and bake under the sun on Good Friday in imitation of Christ. Archive 2003-04-01
He seemed like he was talking about someone else, without any sign of shame and remorse, and without any emotional involvement.
But since his own daughter's death, he has dredged bucketloads of remorse from the depths of his own soul, and no longer sees the world in black and white terms.
Once they score a ton the best batsmen take a fresh guard and press on remorselessly towards a double century. FRANKIE: The Autobiography of Frankie Dettori
Poor Admiral Boxer has fallen a victim to its remorseless gripe, and is buried at the head of the harbour, where he worked so hard, early and late, to endeavour to rescue Balaklava from the plague-stricken wretchedness in which he found it a few months before. Journal Kept During The Russian War: From The Departure Of The Army From England In April 1854, To The Fall Of Sebastopol
His conscience at once spoke out, and in the agony of his remorse he had resort to a hermit who bade him renounce the world, grave for himself a cell in the face of the melaphyre clay -- the hermit did not give to the rock its mineralogical name -- and await a token from heaven that he was forgiven. Castles and Cave Dwellings of Europe
He has no memories and feels no remorse. Christianity Today
It is the western condition of globalisation, and its paradox of intimacy and intolerance suggests that the western reaction to the remorseless rise of the non-west will be far from benign.
The east wind was very quiet, almost remorseful.
The strong north-eastern wind which had been drying out the rain-sodden land was fanning the fire, driving it remorselessly onward.
Throughout the trial, he had shown no remorse .
Often beset by regret and remorse they seek, but do not always find, redemption in various forms.
Frankly, I'm more inclined to find the former more contrived, since a remorseless thug and repenting Christian is a believable dyad.
So sadistic, remorseless brutes cannot dodge true justice for their savagery. The Sun
Wild tomatoes, which had gone to seed or been remorselessly hoed out from the beginning of Berande, were foraged for salads, soups, and sauces. Chapter 7
It is reported by his mother who attended with him that he regularly will fly into a rage without precipitant, has poor recollection of the events and feels remorse and guilt afterwards.
The Afghanistan build up, Wall Street Bail Out versus Main Street and Single pay health reform are three issues which leave many Americans feeling betrayed, unlistened to and remorseful about Obama: Allen L Roland America Suffering Buyers Remorse With Obama
But now such as justly deserve the names of complacencies and joys are wholly refined from their contraries, and are immixed with neither vexation, remorse, nor repentance; and their good is congenial to the mind and truly mental and genuine, and not superinduced. Essays and Miscellanies
I dare say Sasha has managed to cross it unremorsefully.
The shock and shame I felt on reading that statement of transfer, in all its lack of human affect, took the form of an unwanted, and unwonted, sense of complicity, and then remorse, over a century after the fact.
It's heavy stuff, but heavy needs to either be deceptively light on its feet (ala Deep Purple) or unremorsefully jarring in its very density (a la Black Sabbath).
He was filled with remorse for having refused to visit his dying father.
Horrid streams of a-a have to be cautiously skirted, which after rushing remorselessly over the kindlier lava have heaped rugged pinnacles of brown scoriae into impassable walls. The Hawaiian Archipelago
‘The psychology of a violent, remorseless murderer is not defined by connecting dots,’ Cornwell writes at the beginning.
He speaks of remorse/[Page xxviii]/for not succeeding better in his work, remorse for idleness when he was resting: of his lecturing he says: "my sorrow in delivery was less, my remorse after delivery was much greater"; and when writing the 'Jane Welsh Carlyle' paper, being interrupted by Froude, he says: "Froude is now coming, and with remorse New Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle
I feel remorse she lost her dog. Times, Sunday Times
She feels deep remorse for her actions on that tragic day and reflects on these on a daily basis. Times, Sunday Times
Ash and sugar maple trees were shooting up among the apple trees in the remorseless struggle for light.
He said the defendants had lied to police, lied to the court and demonstrated little genuine remorse.
But Good feels remorse for his part in what he calls the obesity of the time. NPR Topics: News
Why, the defamation of our good names paints us as remorseless ghouls bent on world domination!
He turned away from her a bit, but Chantal could see he was hurt and felt instant remorse.
He was suddenly overcome with remorse for the harm he had done.
He was suddenly overcome with remorse for the harm he had done.
There were no subliminal signals of remorse or humility. The Sun
Sorrow, Remorse, Indignation, Despair itself, all these like helldogs lie beleaguering the soul of the poor dayworker, as of every man: but he bends himself with free valour against his task, and all these are stilled, all these shrink murmuring far off into their caves. Past and Present
Announcing his purchase, he is agonisingly torn between arrogant elation and remorseful commiseration.
The suspect has been cooperative with investigators, but he shows little remorse.
The transcripts depict Davis weeping with remorse at several points during the confession.
Throughout all this he never ever showed any remorse or any emotion for what he had done.
I have complete absence of remorse in this saturation of pleasure.
There were no feelings of remorse or guilt from him at all. The Sun
Nature is remorselessly cruel and none more remorseless than the slugs and snails that are currently trying to eat my lettuces before I can.
_Harry_ was not to be fobb'd off so; the Pudding was good, it sat very well on his Stomach, and he eat very savourly, without the least Remorse of Conscience. A Learned Dissertation on Dumpling (1726) [and] Pudding and Dumpling Burnt to Pot. Or a Compleat Key to the Dissertation on Dumpling (1727)
One of the most striking findings is the complete absence of any buyers' remorse. The Sun
Remorseful, Mona figures that the least she can do is find her boyfriend's mortal remains, so that his soul can be put to rest.
These golden dragon-men overlooked the fact of what we were, supposedly vile, remorseless monsters in league with the Devourer himself.
She knew that the next day she would be guilty and full of remorse.
After her examination, but by this time armed with remorse and guilt, I asked for the meaning of the multiple burn scars on her skin.
They were twisted, grotesque things, as if conceived by the maddest of artist, or most unremorseful of psychopaths.
There is evidence that he feels some remorse: he was convicted partly on the basis of three guilt-ridden confessions.
One person to stay two remorse, and three tours.
I like the slow pace, the remorseless march towards excellence, my own drooping eyelids. Times, Sunday Times
Eve ( Bell ) is a sexy assassin who kills without remorse - until one botched hit changes everything.
Like Hasan, he is a psychopath, someone who premeditates destruction, for which he shows no remorse. Robert David Jaffee: Restore Sanity to Conversation on Mentally Ill
She'd have to placate him, to be properly remorseful and contrite if that was what it took to heal her marriage. HERE BE DRAGONS
That's enough ganglia to mime an opera of emotions: a yammer of remorse, perhaps, or a blunt ‘sit on it.’
It still doesn't change the fact that vicious, remorseless murderers are disgusting animals that deserve to rot behind bars.
Was he not actually the sensitive, caring pet I knew and loved, but rather a cruel, remorseless murderer?
The other thing to be aware of at this stage of life is the remorseless growth of hair inside your nostrils and ears. Times, Sunday Times
Next time you communicate with your friend, express deep remorse and offer a groveling apology.
Pudding was good, it sate very well on his Stomach, and he eat very savourly, without the least Remorse of A Learned Dissertation on Dumpling (1726) [and] Pudding and Dumpling Burnt to Pot. Or a Compleat Key to the Dissertation on Dumpling (1727)
Jerry could feel her emotions surge, as her inner thought suddenly manifested feelings of remorse, regret, sadness, and guilt.
‘I'm sorry,’ she whispered remorsefully, realising her error.
Ash and sugar maple trees were shooting up among the apple trees in the remorseless struggle for light.
Drink up and quit all this remorse talk.
The reason that FNC is doing so well while some committed-left media operations are failing is what I call the remorse factor. Undefined
The appropriate action to show your remorse is resignation. vs South Carolina governor apologizes to Cabinet
Pendleton the remorseless Bichon Frise, who saunters down the sidewalk on his 12-foot leash and then clotheslines you ankle-high. Have We All Gone to the Dogs?
Staff at the reform centre say that he has expressed genuine remorse. Times, Sunday Times
In dismissing the idea of a "truth and reconciliation commission," Obama also recognizes that the Republicans would show no remorse for the Bush administration's actions; that they would insist that there is nothing to "reconcile" -; and that they would stay on the attack, pummeling the Democrats as weak, overly sympathetic to terrorists, and endangering national security. Printing: Democrats' 'Battered Wife Syndrome'
The sense he had so often had, since the first hour of his disembarkment, of being further and further “in,” treated him again at this moment to another twinge; but in this wonderful way of her putting him in there continued to be something exquisitely remorseless. The Ambassadors
Adrian struck me as arrogant, flippant, evasive, defensive and unremorseful.
Father Brown & remorse beforehand continuous approximation to a perpetual peace a science fiction story about mnemic causation perhaps Borges-like Archive 2005-08-01
If he neglected duty, he made up for it by that cultivation of the finer sentiments of our common nature which waters flowers of speech with the brineless tears of a flabby remorse, without one fibre of resolve in it, and which impoverishes the character in proportion as it enriches the vocabulary. Among My Books First Series
He was worn by anxiety and remorse almost to a shadow.
Immediately overcome by remorse, I lowered him to the floor and tried to apologize.
She had a catastrophic case of buyer 's remorse. Times, Sunday Times
Their godly sorrow, a genuine remorse for their sins.
I'm having tweeter's remorse.
Overcome with remorse she swears eternal love to him, at which he recovers.
There was no interval for reflection, no sudden upsurge of remorse for my past sins, nor did my life pass in rapid review before my eyes. A BOOK OF LANDS AND PEOPLES
She agrees but instantly feels remorse. The Sun
Where is now the enthusiastic Gironde, where the volcanic mountain, the fiery, and eloquent Mirabeau, the wily Brissot, the atheistic Lequinios, the remorseless Marat, the bloody St. Just, and the chief of the deplumed and fallen legions of equality? The Stranger in France or, a Tour from Devonshire to Paris Illustrated by Engravings in Aqua Tint of Sketches Taken on the Spot.
It's hoped that it will reduce feelings of regret, remorse and guilt, which are all core to the experience of Post Traumatic Stress.
Saturday's losing team, meanwhile, apologised for one of the biggest soccer fiascos Germany has ever suffered, expressing shame and remorse for only their second ever World Cup qualifying defeat.
Alyosha repeated unconsoled, hiding his face in his hands in an agony of remorse for his indiscretion. The Brothers Karamazov
The defendant is sitting there looking very remorseful.
And the old man looked, stared, somewhat glary-eyed, look intently at Muse as if he was a religious man of some kind, you know a convinced assurance this was not the end of this tribulation, almost a remorseless gleam in his eyes, something strange to me, I continued however to keep a careful distance away from this occurrence. Frankie Horror | SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles
Will it scatter my courage and dull my mind? — despiritualize me completely — does it mean eventual barrenness, eventual remorse, failure? Flappers and Philosophers
They wanted a spectacle: breast-beating, remorse, tears if possible.
Mullen said Monday she couldn't keep the promise because Simmons showed a "disturbing" lack of remorse and responsibility during presentencing interviews. Counselor Accused Of Courthouse Molestation Has Plea Deal Thrown Out
He was filled with remorse for having refused to visit his dying father.
They don't develop a knowledge of the victim's experience and therefore they don't develop victim empathy and a sense of remorse and guilt.
The sweet and beautifully drawn Song of the Birds is about a kid's remorse when he hits a little bird with a popgun.
Apart from Thierry Henry, whose handball helped France pinch the ticket to South Africa from Ireland's pockets, none of the greats really showed remorse, though one will never know whether they actually felt something called compunction in their private hours. The Times of India
It includes bogus demographics, minor details shorn of context, calumnies against the victims and remorseless fakery. Times, Sunday Times
However, the periods of remorse do not inhibit further episodes of acting out behaviour.
How are you not going to feel this enormous remorse and guilt? Times, Sunday Times
Bogart seems to have rescinded his deathbed remorse about switching from scotch to Martinis.
In "Avatar, " the Na'vi are basically alien hippies; in "Aliens, " the titular creatures are remorseless, bloodthirsty xenomorphs.
They were disciplined but will keep their jobs because of their genuine remorse. The Sun
It was endowed with an endless capacity for multiplication and a remorseless urge to advance.
He seemed to feel no remorse at all.
It is only under the remorseless pressure of dealing with the reality of Iris that the make-believe barriers sometimes break down and he shouts that he hates her.
Given the chance, as a young man, he would nap till noon without remorse or regret.
The guitar is equally remorseless: there are no chord changes; it's E flat minor throughout.
They are brutal and remorseless killers, undeserving of the legalism of international conventions, the U.S. government argues.
GT : Sounds like people dump sick or disabled pets without remorse.
The same was true of his feelings of guilt and remorse. Times, Sunday Times
They likewise carefully watch the corpse by night and day till the time of interment, and conceive that “the deil tinkles at the lyke-wake” of those who felt in their dead-thraw the agonies and terrors of remorse.’ Guy Mannering
I also did not feel any remorse at the extravagant spending of the evening.
The absence of remorse and the continuation of abuse are dead giveaways that the person is a bully.
I looked at the space between his lap and the steering wheel remorsefully.
The result is that a lot of folks go to their graves feeling unrelieved remorse for disputes they had long ago with lovers, family members, business colleagues, and others.
Throw in Selleck, and "no remorse" is the least of it. Tom Selleck, 'Jesse Stone' keep doing what they do best
There are other cases where the religious emotions and ideals are completely subordinated to or become identified with feelings of fear or remorse, the result of fixed ideas of a shameful, distressing or frightsome character. The Journal of Abnormal Psychology
Most of these accidents and injuries are irreversible, and a company cannot hand out a sincere apology and have the victim know for certain that they mean it - so they express their remorse with a cheque.
What killed them was unreasoning, remorseless, merciless evil.
‘I am truly sorry,’ Gregory repeated as a new surge of remorse was summoned to torment him.
For she saw in his eyes love, which no woman can mistake, and a thousand tons of regret and remorse, which aroused pity, which is perilously near to love requited.
You can crush your enemies in the most ruthless and vile of ways all the while unhindered by such weaknesses as remorse or guilt.
No other ballet so remorselessly exposes the gulf between effulgent grandeur and mere competence. Times, Sunday Times
He grunted in agonizing pain, and looked at the unremorseful Ryuko with malice and hate in his formerly emotionless eyes.
Price thinks they are genuinely remorseful. Times, Sunday Times
No one doubts that the Conqueror could be remorseless: not least in his wasting of parts of Yorkshire and the north-west in the desperate campaigning of 1069-70.
I feel deep remorse and am very sorry for what happened'. Times, Sunday Times
The explosion of Internet dating, in which you announce the traits you want in a lover as you'd announce the ingredients you want in a latte, and remorselessly exchange him if he's not made to specifications, has hastened still further the commodification of romance — and its desanctification. Fidelity With a Wandering Eye
There have been record bankruptcies and remorselessly rising unemployment.
Galen Albret's nostrils expanded as he heard the _crack, crack, crack_ of the remorseless dog-whip whose sting drew him away from the vain pursuit. The Call of the North
William's head spun with shock and remorse as he read the words ‘my boyfriend’.
Peter (the eldest) is brutal, angry, and remorseless.
Remorseful, Mona figures that the least she can do is find her boyfriend's mortal remains, so that his soul can be put to rest.
He has no memories and feels no remorse. Christianity Today
CINCINNATI His lawyer says a former Ohio sheriff's deputy is "very remorseful" about faking going off to war. Phony Veterans and POW's - Article Index
Some of it is maybe "agenbite of inwit," the Middle English phrase meaning remorse of conscience. Rectitude Chic
During submissions on penalty, the prosecution said the company had a 'slapdash' approach to maintenance, had shown no remorse and embarked on a finger-pointing exercise during the trial. Latest News - Yahoo!7 News
They have differed from Christianity in that their predestinating, determining force, instead of being qualified by any play of free-will, or any feasible plan of ultimate and superabounding good, has been a real fatalism, changeless, hopeless, remorseless. Oriental Religions and Christianity A Course of Lectures Delivered on the Ely Foundation Before the Students of Union Theological Seminary, New York, 1891
He showed no concern or remorse but one witness saw him smiling shortly afterwards.
It peeps out, even in the most serious passages, in a kind of demure rebellion against the fanaticism of his remorseless intelligence. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 31, May, 1860
After killing indefense children and women in Gaza with bombs from aircrafts and helicopters more than 290 palestinian and another severely injured 800, Israel bombed without any remorse anything but no specific military objectives, even pharmacies at the time official rumors are spreading that Israel is preparing for a ground invasion in the next hours and while the media converts palestinians in the provokers and Israel the victim, when the real thing is they have made of Gaza Strip a concentration camp with no food, no services, no water, no access to health care with more than million people condemned to starvation worst than any concentration camp of nazi germany in WWII. Alex Jones' Prison Planet.com
Rising wages contrasted with declining textile prices, which fell remorselessly in every textile industry for which we have data.
So sadistic, remorseless brutes cannot dodge true justice for their savagery. The Sun
In the US justice system if an innocent man found guilty at trial does not feign guilt and remorse he is likely to be mercilessly punished.
She knew that the next day she would be guilty and full of remorse.
One person to stay two remorse, and three tours.
Despite being warned by crew members, the Manchester man was said to have shown no remorse and seemed unconcerned by his actions.
Behind them were the still madder, swifter, more terrible waters, coming in sudden thuds, in furious drives, eddying and sculping and rearing in an orgy or remorseless and heartrending destruction. Waysiders
You have expressed genuine concern and remorse about the position you had put yourself in. Times, Sunday Times
remorse was cancerous within him
The other thing to be aware of at this stage of life is the remorseless growth of hair inside your nostrils and ears. Times, Sunday Times
A double killer had shown no remorse or contrition for murdering two drug dealers in his home, a judge said yesterday as he imposed concurrent life sentences.
They were disciplined but will keep their jobs because of their genuine remorse. The Sun
His voice died in a hard sob of imploring agony, -- smitten to the very soul by a remorse greater than he could bear, his strength failed him, and he fell senseless, face forward among the flowers of the Prophet's field; .. flowers that, circling snowily around his dark and prostrate form, looked like fairy garlands bordering Ardath
Several of the 20 items require the examiner to rate personality traits that we historically think of when we use the term "psychopath," such as whether the person shows a lack of remorse or guilt, appears callous, seems superficially charming, and has an inflated sense of self-worth i.e., the personality component. NPR Topics: News
Mr. Milburn was described as a vile Yankee type of miser and overreacher, who had plotted against the fortune of a gentleman and the virtue of his daughter for a long series of remorseless years. The Entailed Hat Or, Patty Cannon's Times
Each battle thenceforth sought to break gaps in the German defences; the campaign was transformed into a remorseless, attritional grind.
The essays are heavily laced with anger, remorse and angst, as Powell examines his life on microscopic and macroscopic levels.
In the bright water into which he stared, the pictures changed and were repeated: the baresark rage of Goddedaal; the blood-red light of the sunset into which they had run forth; the face of the babbling Chinaman as they cast him over; the face of the captain, seen a moment since, as he awoke from drunkenness into remorse. The Wrecker
Thus the monstrous seizer of antiquity was appropriated as a Christian image of seduction and then of penitence and remorse.
The internet does present great temptations but if he shows no remorse and won't be honest with you, you stand no chance of rebuilding your relationship. The Sun
The proportion of people voting for the two larger parties has gone down remorselessly. Times, Sunday Times
While they concede that some of the coca they produce is bought by drug traffickers, they show little remorse.
Further, he has even not shown any remorse for what he put this person, his family and his practice through.
The effect of this remorseless business logic is to squeeze out all but the largest suppliers under the guise of economies of scale. SHOPPED: The Shocking Power of British Supermarkets
She feels deep remorse for her actions on that tragic day and reflects on these on a daily basis. Times, Sunday Times
The rest of us will perceive the cruel, remorseless logic of the ageing process. Times, Sunday Times

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