Sentences with phrase «plagued by conscience»

Daniel Craig (the next James Bond) plays an instinctive man, not plagued by conscience, a natural soldier; Ciaran Hinds, an intellectual doubter; Robert (Mathieu Kassovitz), a sensitive artist disguised as a bomb maker; and Hanns Zischler, a seemingly emotionless killer, whose facade cracks after a particularly pathetic episode involving the shooting of a frivolous female assassin.

Others at first accepted military service, then, plagued by conscience, either deserted or suffered martyrdom in consequence of their faith.

Not exact matches

The alcoholic's overweening conscience is relaxed by alcohol, and it ceases plaguing him for the time being.

From the overfishing of Senegal's waters by European trawlers to the list of disappearing species to plague tender consciences, the atlas dissects the global condition.

Figuring that by now viewers have become jaded with the predictable, cross double - cross triple - cross trajectory of your average con film, «Matchstick Men» also offers a psychological profile of a conflicted, conscience - plagued career criminal, and throws a credible family drama into the mix for good measure — all of which makes for a surprisingly substantial film whose many facets leave you with plenty more to digest after the final credits have rolled than just who did what to whom and how (although it certainly has that too).