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.