With her low, melancholy voice and the tortured conscience of her lyrics, Fiona Apple never seemed cut out for comedy.

When two deputy sheriffs appear at the house the following day, he confesses to his crime to clear his tortured conscience.

Do we really want a long session with a tortured conscience again?

It did not prevent her from admiring and liking him, not least for what she saw as his struggle with his own tortured conscience.

In his short stories, Chekhov also explored how people misunderstood the voice of a tortured conscience.

Read by the light of Shelley's previous history, his letter seems to be the cry of a tortured conscience.

Still, Eugene's tortured conscience can sneak up and whack you one.

"A brother of Putin, whose tortured conscience is written on his face from the beginning," he read aloud in a thoughtful tone, free from apparent sarcasm.

Robert Cray, who brings convincing passion to songs about a tortured conscience, meshes blues with Memphis soul.

Every time he hears them, he becomes more and more crazed, ending up the hapless victim of his tortured conscience.