2004 Sep, Christopher Hitchens, “The Immortal”, in Atlantic Monthly[1]:
His subsequent interest in Shintoism and Buddhism lacks the mordancy and introspection (the "agenbite of inwit," as Joyce liked to put it) of his earlier hermeneutic investigations.
2008 December 12, Peggy Noonan, “Rectitude Chic: The first Christmas in the age of restraint”, in Wall Street Journal[2]:
Economic collapse concentrates the mind. Some of it is maybe "agenbite of inwit," the Middle English phrase meaning remorse of conscience.
