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

The result was hours of heart-searching for those entrusted with the feeding of the Faithful.

From Mrs. Bindle Some Incidents from the Domestic Life of the Bindles by Jenkins, Hebert

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

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

With all the fault of his printed sermons, the conclusions of some of them are, to my mind, the most stirring and heart-searching addresses to souls that are to be found in the English language.

From A Sketch of the Life and Labors of George Whitefield by Ryle, John Charles