heart-searching
Example Sentences
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In the aftermath there will be much heart-searching and even recriminations that this massive stockpile of ammonium nitrate was left unattended in such a sensitive place as the docks.
From Washington Times • Aug. 5, 2020
When Elizabeth, played with exquisite subtlety by Clare Foy, learns that her pledge was based on faulty advice served up by her lugubrious private secretary, Tommy Lascelles, she is full of consternation and hesitant heart-searching.
From New York Times • Nov. 23, 2016
If he were severe now, she would surely come to see the absurdity of these religious fears, this heart-searching and morbid sensitiveness.
From Plashers Mead A Novel by MacKenzie, Compton
She needed no heart-searching to decide where her duty lay; and, without hesitation, she returned hotfoot to Belgium, where she had an intuition that she would be wanted.
From A Noble Woman The Life-Story of Edith Cavell by Protheroe, Ernest
They are gods to whom doubtful philosophers can pray, with all a philosopher's due caution, as to so many radiant and heart-searching hypotheses.
From Five Stages of Greek Religion by Murray, Gilbert
