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
The result was hours of heart-searching for those entrusted with the feeding of the Faithful.
From Mrs. Bindle Some Incidents from the Domestic Life of the Bindles by Hebert Jenkins
Oh, what secret prayer and what heart-searching discipline the heart needs before God can use it!—F.
From Thoughts for the Quiet Hour by Various
For the next few years it was to be a matter of recurrent heart-searching for Lady Harman whether she had been profoundly wise or extremely foolish in tearing up that card of projected rules.
From The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
