rouse your conscience
Frequency: 4.11.5 per million words
To awaken or stir someone's sense of morality.
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Examples (10)
- The powerful speech was meant to rouse the nation's conscience.
- Seeing the injustice firsthand finally roused his conscience to act.
- Activists are working to rouse the public conscience about environmental issues.
- Will this tragedy be enough to rouse the conscience of world leaders?
- The documentary successfully roused the conscience of its viewers.
- A single photograph can sometimes rouse the collective conscience.
- His goal as a writer was to rouse the conscience of his generation.
- The plea from the victims roused her conscience, and she decided to donate.
- It is our duty to try and rouse the conscience of those in power.
- The story is a moving attempt at rousing the human conscience against cruelty.