self-questioning
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"There was definite hesitancy, or just more self-questioning - why am I curious about doing this? But in many ways, it feels like such a lifetime ago, that version of my life," she says.
From BBC • Apr. 14, 2022
Eilish also copes with tearing a ligament onstage, her recurring Tourette’s syndrome, a video-screen breakdown when she headlines the Coachella festival, an apathetic boyfriend, inane interviewers, endless meet-and-greets and constant self-questioning about accessibility versus integrity.
From New York Times • Dec. 27, 2021
It’s to this rigorously intellectual and self-questioning filmmaker’s credit that he doesn’t present these parts of his oeuvre as anything but conscience-stricken stabs at making sense of it all.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 14, 2021
This actually ties into your self-questioning on “squandering” power.
From Washington Post • Aug. 25, 2021
The chief difference between them and our modern scientific myth of the Big Bang is that science is self-questioning, and that we can perform experiments and observations to test our ideas.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
