self-questioning

Example Sentences

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"There was definite hesitancy, or just more self-questioning - why am I curious about doing this? But in many ways, it feels like such a lifetime ago, that version of my life," she says.

From BBC • Apr. 14, 2022

Eilish also copes with tearing a ligament onstage, her recurring Tourette’s syndrome, a video-screen breakdown when she headlines the Coachella festival, an apathetic boyfriend, inane interviewers, endless meet-and-greets and constant self-questioning about accessibility versus integrity.

From New York Times • Dec. 27, 2021

This actually ties into your self-questioning on “squandering” power.

From Washington Post • Aug. 25, 2021

Longevity in this admittedly odd and perhaps indefensible profession isn’t determined by years but by an ability to stay open and self-questioning.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 26, 2021

The chief difference between them and our modern scientific myth of the Big Bang is that science is self-questioning, and that we can perform experiments and observations to test our ideas.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan