heart-searching
Example Sentences
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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
"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
The next trial was to be the most heart-searching and trying of all, and ’Alam Gul felt he would ten times rather have had the anathemas of the Mullahs or the beatings of his enemies.
From Among the Wild Tribes of the Afghan Frontier A Record of Sixteen Years' Close Intercourse with the Natives of the Indian Marches by Pennell, T. L. (Theodore Leighton)
Oh, I perfectly understand that all this heart-searching becomes a nuisance.
From Sinister Street, vol. 1 by MacKenzie, Compton
