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soul-searching

noun as in introspection

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But there were also moments of personal soul searching—the resurfacing of questions that never fully go away.

The ball is squarely in the Pakistani court, and now is the time to engage in deep strategic soul-searching and reconfiguration.

And then, finally, I think it's going to be important for all of us to do some soul-searching.

The disaster has inspired a backlash and a round of soul-searching.

And even so, even commonplace as they are, such incidents invariably trigger the same anguished soul-searching.

It sounded like the voice of a soul searching for something it could never find.

On the wind was coming the ghost of a smell, faint and horrible and soul-searching.

For a single moment longer she stood, her soul searching his through her wonderful eyes.

The only questions asked were soul-searching ones put to herself.

The proof to which God put Abraham is the most soul-searching proof that ever comes into human lives.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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