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
As a contrast to such heart-searching thoughts the patient can wonder at the properties of that radium by which he may have been treated.
From Hospital Sketches by Peabody, Robert Swain
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 Jenkins, Hebert
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
