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

What heart-searching words Christ had spoken to His disciples on love and humility, on being the least, and, like Himself, the servant of all, on denying self, and taking the cross, and losing the life.

From The Ministry of Intercession A Plea for More Prayer by Murray, Andrew

But the new, strenuous, heart-searching note took her captive.

From Roland Graeme: Knight A Novel of Our Time by Machar, Agnes Maule

As a contrast to such heart-searching thoughts the patient can wonder at the properties of that radium by which he may have been treated.

From Hospital Sketches by Peabody, Robert Swain