Qualm
"She kept her promise to Mr. Yunioshi; or I assume she did not ring his bell again, for in the next days she started ringing mine, sometimes at two in the morning, three and four: she had no qualms at what hour she got me out of bed to push the buzzer that released the downstairs door."
Capote, Truman. Breakfast
at Tiffany's and three stories. 2nd Vintage International ed. New York:
Vintage Books, 2012. Print.
Definition*:
an uneasy feeling or pang of conscience as to conduct; compunction.
*All definitions are from the source found in THIS post.
Second Source:
"You'll see certain Pythagoreans whose belief in communism of property goes to such lengths that they pick up anything lying about unguarded, and make off with it without a qualm of conscience as if it had come to them by law."
Commentary:
Both Capote and Erasmus use the word qualm to speak of a person who performed actions without guilty feelings for what they have done, whether those actions be rude or controversial. Qualm has a similar sound to the word calm. Pythagoras and Holly Golightly were, in a sense, calm or unphased by their actions.
"You'll see certain Pythagoreans whose belief in communism of property goes to such lengths that they pick up anything lying about unguarded, and make off with it without a qualm of conscience as if it had come to them by law."
"Quotations
by the poet: Desiderius Erasmus - quote quotation saying." PoemHunter.com.
N.p., n.d. Web. 5 Jan. 2014.
<http://www.poemhunter.com/desiderius-erasmus/quotations/page-2/>.
Commentary:
Both Capote and Erasmus use the word qualm to speak of a person who performed actions without guilty feelings for what they have done, whether those actions be rude or controversial. Qualm has a similar sound to the word calm. Pythagoras and Holly Golightly were, in a sense, calm or unphased by their actions.
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