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
A Toccata of Galuppi’s touches on deep subjects with a mere feather-touch of light and capricious suggestiveness, interwoven with the graver mood, with the heart-searching questionings of man’s deep nature and mysterious spirit.
From The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning by Berdoe, Edward
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
Oh, I perfectly understand that all this heart-searching becomes a nuisance.
From Sinister Street, vol. 1 by MacKenzie, Compton
