Sentences with phrase «grappling with the guilt»

As Celestial dithers, she also grapples with guilt over her changed self.

The person who had the affair may grapple with guilt and promise not to do it again, or may move on and realise that the affair was a symptom of something deeper that had gone wrong in the relationship.

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Extended work hours, justified by the added financial demands, can also lead to guilt as a new father grapples with the lack of time left for interaction with his child.

In her guilt and confusion she's left to grapple with the extent of her responsibility — or maybe there is none and Kevin is just a bad seed, spawn of the devil.

As María recounts this story, we are given a murder mystery brilliantly reimagined as metaphysical enquiry, a novel that grapples with questions of love and death, guilt and obsession, chance and coincidence, how we are haunted by our losses, and above all, the slippery essence of the truth and how it is told.

Later, she denies to a friend that she is no longer a virgin and grapples with feelings of shame and guilt.