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
In these lectures he developed the doctrine, the enunciation of which in Lux Mundi had caused so much heart-searching.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 3 "Gordon, Lord George" to "Grasses" by Various
If he were severe now, she would surely come to see the absurdity of these religious fears, this heart-searching and morbid sensitiveness.
From Plashers Mead A Novel by Compton MacKenzie
"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 Martin Luther
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