stir your conscience
Frequency: 4.93.1 per million words
To awaken or stir someone's sense of morality.
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Examples (10)
- The documentary was designed to stir the public's conscience about animal cruelty.
- The photos of the starving children stirred his conscience, and he immediately donated.
- Doesn't it stir your conscience to see so much waste?
- The speaker's powerful words were stirring the conscience of everyone in the room.
- It was a speech that could stir the conscience of a nation.
- If that story doesn't stir your conscience, I don't know what will.
- Despite the evidence, the news failed to stir his conscience.
- He hoped his art would stir the conscience of those who had become complacent.
- Stirring the collective conscience is the first step towards social change.
- The upcoming exposé will surely stir the conscience of the political establishment.