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But his self-conflict is what the Times reports resonates with viewers of a younger demographic.

From Fox News • Sep. 29, 2021

Keats seems to me to have been naturally a man of complex character, many-mooded, with a tendency to perverse self-conflict.

From Life of John Keats by Rossetti, William Michael

Automachia, or the self-conflict of a Christian, 392.

From Notes and Queries, Index of Volume 2, May-December, 1850 A Medium of Inter-Communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, Etc. by Various

Whoever will enter upon that process of self-wrestling and self-conflict which has been described, will come to a profound sense of the truth which our Lord taught in the words of the text.

From Sermons to the Natural Man by Shedd, William G. T. (William Greenough Thayer)

Precisely at this culminating point of my self-conflict did that scene occur which I have described with Miss Bl——.

From Autobiographical Sketches by De Quincey, Thomas