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
Mrs. Caldwell had inquired again and again in that heart-searching hour which had preceded her sanction of the engagement.
From The Torch Bearer by Marquis, Reina Melcher
A halt had come, for stock-taking and heart-searching.
From The Railway Builders A Chronicle of Overland Highways by Skelton, Oscar Douglas
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
