No compunctious visitings of conscience seem to have haunted her.
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At length a compunctious vision shoots across the mind of the truant composer.
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Yet he describes himself as subject to compunctious visitations from that silent quarter.
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Unluckily, when these compunctious visitings seized me I was standing by a rostrum of heterodoxy.
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My firm resolution to hit my antagonist was now confirmed, and no compunctious visitings unnerved my arm.
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Recollecting what his own method of bringing her round had been, his conscience gives him a compunctious stab.
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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.
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During the "Hebrew Golden Age" of the 10th to 12th century,Gregory B. Kaplan, Review of: The Compunctious Poet: Cultural Ambiguity and Hebrew Poetry in Muslim Spain, Ross Brann, Johns Hopkins UP, 1991. Hispanic Review, Vol. 61, No. 3 (Summer, 1993), pp. 405–407. . he was the most prolific of the Hebrew poets and was regarded by some of his contemporaries, as well as by modern critics, as the greatest of all the medieval Hebrew poets.
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However, numerous genetic studies have not supported this theory. In western Europe, following the collapse of the Western Roman Empire in 476, and especially after the re-orientation of trade caused by the Moorish conquest of Iberia in the early 8th century, communications between the Jewish communities in northern parts of the former western empire became sporadic. At the same time, rule under Islam, even with dhimmi status, resulted in freer trade and communications within the Muslim world, and the communities in Iberia remained in frequent contact with Jewry in North Africa and the Middle East, but communities further afield, in central and south Asia and central Africa, remained more isolated, and continued to develop their own unique traditions. For the Sephardim in Spain, it resulted in a "Hebrew Golden Age" in the 10th to 12th centuries.Gregory B. Kaplan, Review of: The Compunctious Poet: Cultural Ambiguity and Hebrew Poetry in Muslim Spain, Ross Brann, Johns Hopkins UP, 1991.
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