“And they lost all compunction about tarring the opposition with outright lies and character assassination.”

“But I can, without compunction, recommend the film purely on its own merits.”

“They would have no compunction about silencing a fellow countryman who'd discovered their hidden lair.”

“Democrats, as Romney should have remembered from his campaigns in Massachusetts, have no such compunctions.”

“The strident unwholesomeness proves oddly refreshing in the show's ambience of fretful compunctions.”

“Such misguided compunctions blunt the jagged, tatterdemalion otherness that is central to our experience of a Wölfli, a Darger, or a Ramirez.”