| Yet he describes himself as subject to compunctious visitations from that silent quarter. |
| At length a compunctious vision shoots across the mind of the truant composer. |
| My firm resolution to hit my antagonist was now confirmed, and no compunctious visitings unnerved my arm. |
| Guston, who died of a heart attack in 1980, at the age of sixty-six, had seemed the most compunctious member of American art's greatest generation. |
| No compunctious visitings of conscience seem to have haunted her. |
| Unluckily, when these compunctious visitings seized me I was standing by a rostrum of heterodoxy. |