Synonyms for soul-searching

He paused, and their eyes were locked in a soul-searching look.

On the wind was coming the ghost of a smell, faint and horrible and soul-searching.

I've done some soul-searching myself, and it hasn't been a pleasant task.

The only questions asked were soul-searching ones put to herself.

She expected some curt, soul-searching question at the end of it.

Tell me, soul-searching ray, if erst I strove To cherish, feed and guard where grew no love.

The soul-searching eye of Cromwell peered through his visor, and turned alternately on Neville and Beaumont.

He has in this book made some appalling, soul-searching studies in the pathology as well as the psychology of vice.

The proof to which God put Abraham is the most soul-searching proof that ever comes into human lives.

Even before publication the pamphlet provoked considerable discussion and soul-searching in the Army staff.