heart-searching

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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

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 Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)

Those two old ladies would have suffered much heart-searching before they told their lie, and not a little remorse afterward.

From The Turnstile by Mason, A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley)

"It does, indeed, frequently bring its false thoughts in the form of that mystical, heart-searching style which Luther learned from older German models."

From Works of Martin Luther With Introductions and Notes (Volume II) by Luther, Martin