How To Use Self-doubt In A Sentence

His ego was impervious to self-doubt.
Perhaps it comes down to a pathological lack of self-doubt and a gift for lending that trait to others, at least for a while. Times, Sunday Times
She is assailed by self-doubt and emotional insecurity.
Out of the all the superhero movies to date, this period of self-doubt and loathing, is probably the most adult issue. Iron Man 2 Movie Review ***SPOILERS*** « Monster Scifi Show Blog
She is always assailed by self-doubt and emotional insecurity.

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And then I have to push through the self-doubt what I call the Slough of Despond and emerge from the other side. Interview: Pat Murphy
As the old patterns die in their minds and the new ones begin to take shape, people are assailed by self-doubt and misgivings about their leaders.
These diarised moments of brutal honesty, twinned with hesitant uncertainty, are typical of Woolf's swings between self-doubt and dogged ambition.
Is political theatre just an outlet for self-doubting, defeated actors?
As a coltish 16-year-old who was unprepared to deal with her still-maturing body, she began to struggle with weight control and self-doubt.
Edit: In a (rare) moment of self-doubt I looked up 'obviate' wondering if it's one of those words I've either misheard or used incorrectly. Archive 2007-08-01
This almost certainly has something to do with the national mood since September 11, which has been defensive for obvious reasons, and particularly ill-disposed to introspection and self-doubt.
Now, after years of self-doubt, she was growing in confidence and beginning to shed the tensions of her formative years.
With Mr. Beer into the attack, he sensed a chance to break free of self-doubt, but chose the wrong ball — too flighted and too wide — to hit over mid-on. England in Position to Win Ashes
In this fearful and cynical climate, talk about space only brings our self-doubt and loathing to the fore rather than doing anything to tackle it.
They've made the choice to create a kind of enlivenment packaged as entertainment that presents the baser side of human experience, knowing that humans, out of their boredom, self-doubts, or lack of fulfillment, can be attracted to the negative if they don't have the option of turning to the positive that's packaged in an equally entertaining fashion. Mike Schwager: Why We Need to Transform Television
I adore their lack of self-doubt. Times, Sunday Times
Self-doubt began to gnaw away at her confidence.
He found shelter in a cave, and there self-doubt plagued him.
We use it to comfort ourselves, quell anxiety and fear, and numb those feelings of self-doubt.
There are no love songs on this album, and very few signs of self-doubt, just a calm assuredness and a fearless determination.
He captures the flicker of self-doubt beneath the bluster and swagger. Times, Sunday Times
Opening with the typically self-doubting complexities, his 'Mystery Song #1' sounds like Eldorado-era Neil Young in places.
Far from being arrogant, today's doctors are diffident and afflicted by insecurity and self-doubt.
He captures the flicker of self-doubt beneath the bluster and swagger. Times, Sunday Times
People don't like nuance in a leader, they don't like any self-doubt whatsoever.
But the edges of her symbol were darkened by the unholy fires of self-doubt.
Surely winning comedy's biggest prize in 1995 must have abated this self-doubt?
France is no longer the uncertain, self-doubting nation that stood unmoving while the Germans remilitarized the Rhineland thirteen years ago. Archive 2009-10-01
It creates a jumpy, insecure, self-doubting person. Times, Sunday Times
Europeans weren't much assailed by self-doubt in their encounters with foreign civilisations. Times, Sunday Times
The split was far from amicable and plunged the normally perky star into a well of depression and self-doubt.
They could not shirk their duty; they could not afford the luxury of self-doubt or introspective musing.
Spurling tells of a life plagued by desperation, self-doubt and nervous anguish, which required an assuaging art of calm.
At the time, it felt like glorious payback for all those years of insecurity and self-doubt. Times, Sunday Times
It was a blissful moment of freedom amid a batting performance otherwise etched with worry, uncertainty and self-doubt. Times, Sunday Times
Most of the students were uncertain and self-doubting about their capacity to write a paper, speak publicly, or rebel against authority.
Don't let self-doubt interfere with plans to improve your life. George Carlin
Newspaper columnists and political talk-shows reflect a tone of self-doubt and unease about the conduct of the war to date.
The accumulated rage, hurt and self-doubt become so entrenched that even teens from loving homes may never recover.
Without the crutch of music, self-doubt menaced him, and he was a reluctant public communicator.
Few players seem to reach big-time sport without some crises along the way, such as injuries, self-doubt, mismanagement or personal baggage.
The Labour Party, riven by schism and self-doubt, seemed in long-term, inexorable decline, for sociological as well as ideological reasons.
Such is the nature of our intimate, carking, rueful relationship with William Holden, on the surface one of the Hollywood century's typical all-purpose leading men, but beneath it the keeper of poisoned secrets, and a living embodiment of America's postwar self-doubt and idealistic failure. William Holden--noir hero?
If we give into the temptation to ignore or deny self-doubt, it will impose limits on our ability to act.
Don't let self-doubt interfere with plans to improve your life. George Carlin
It shows the national hero traumatized and self-doubting, and vanquished by forces he never quite understands. The Times Literary Supplement
Some of the most surprising feedback I’ve had since the festival screenings is a lot of response from men saying that they have grappled with body issues their whole life, and held back from chasing their dreams because of self-doubt. Current Movie Reviews, Independent Movies - Film Threat
Untroubled by self-doubts and consistently successful, he is portrayed as having squired and bedded numerous women.
Courage, I now see, is a journey involving self-doubt and self-examination, with the end never in sight.
Self-doubt and injury nagged and niggled without mercy.
Low scores indicate self-doubt, a belief that one is unworthy or undesirable, and lack of self-confidence.
Like many brilliant artists he seems beset by anxiety, self-doubt and an embarrassingly thin skin. Times, Sunday Times
He was afflicted by self-doubt and introspection. Times, Sunday Times
But this memoir is full not of braggadocio, but of self-doubt, as well as wit, humour and passion.
Europeans weren't much assailed by self-doubt in their encounters with foreign civilisations. Times, Sunday Times
He captures the flicker of self-doubt beneath the bluster and swagger. Times, Sunday Times
Self-doubt crept up insidiously and turned to desperation. Three Common Mistakes Job Hunters Make
And even the old-line, skeptical faculty can accommodate such ambitions, tempted by the promise of added status and goaded by self-doubt about the value of their own careers.
Both characters lack basic happiness - Victor is habitually self-doubting, while Kelly is emerging from an abusive relationship.
The only reason we keep expecting our tennis players to do well is that they are middle class and lack self-doubt.
He was by nature insecure and self-doubting, the victim of depressive moods and bouts of indolence.
This resulted in disempowerment, lack of focus, a lot of self-doubt, and fear of sharing any "un-massaged" news at the risk of being another casualty of new-CEO-itis. The Plight of CEOs
As a bright but unremarkable working-class child, she was crippled by shyness and self-doubt.
He captures the flicker of self-doubt beneath the bluster and swagger. Times, Sunday Times
Not even the delight of passing his driving test or having more time to indulge his devotion to Real Madrid could assuage the inner torment of self-doubt.
He captures the flicker of self-doubt beneath the bluster and swagger. Times, Sunday Times
Youthful impetuosity and confidence has given way to caution and self-doubt, fuelled by a whole array of injuries over the years.
If we give into the temptation to ignore or deny self-doubt, it will impose limits on our ability to act.
Europeans weren't much assailed by self-doubt in their encounters with foreign civilisations. Times, Sunday Times
Then he tells me that he is racked by self-doubt and is never satisfied with the interviews he has conducted.
In reality, he was racked with self-doubt, hesitant, and liable always to agree with the last person he had spoken to.
Procrastination often comes from unrealistic perfectionist tendencies, self-doubt, or fear of change.
Mr. Pitt couples a star presence—there's a singular there there whenever the A's general manager is in camera range—to a beautifully measured ensemble performance that makes Billy a minimalist ironist, tossing off funny remarks with an abandon that almost conceals his deep anger, pain or self-doubt. 'Moneyball': Stars, Stats and Perfect Pitch
Far from being arrogant, today's doctors are diffident and afflicted by insecurity and self-doubt.
The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt. Sylvia Plath
Don Pedro's arc moves him from proud hidalgo to magnificent obsessive, an all-macho embodiment of the extremes of empowerment, totally devoid of any self-doubt.
She's that classic combination of driven and self-doubting, focused but also 'a very sensitive character'. Times, Sunday Times
Even so, she suffers simultaneously from that perennial thespian complaint of neuroticism fuelled by depressing self-doubt.
My self-doubt and anxiety are eating me alive. The Sun
They contain no vestige of self-doubt, no scintilla of scientific uncertainty and more than a hint of patronage.
Perhaps it was from this socially secure family that Reynold received his patrician ease, his apparent freedom from self-doubt, and his refined aesthetic sense.
Oddly enough, you see-saw between overconfidence and self-doubt.
Sarah has been an incisive critic of my work, an unequalled friend in moments of self-doubt, and an eident copy-editor.
It is a gallimaufry of styles and models, maybe no more than an attempt to induce self-doubt in critics and readers who have admired the beautifully achieved adventurousness of his previous novels and stories.
My introspection loses a lot of its working energy and becomes sluggish, gloomy, self-nagging and self-doubting.
Instead of obediently yielding to the will of these gods, he took his destiny into his own hands, even though he remained plagued by self-doubt.
Bossy people are often self-doubting underneath. The Sun
It shows the national hero traumatized and self-doubting, and vanquished by forces he never quite understands.
They don't extirpate every scintilla of self-doubt you've ever had.
His Self-Portrait (1941), painted after a period of personal and political turbulence, presents the painter in a pensive, almost self-doubting, mood.
For what you describe, I would suggest a combination of the two, to remove self-doubt and negativity and replace it with confidence and luck.
A lot of soul-searching and prayer went into his choice to venture down a new path and he went through his moments of self-doubt.
Europeans weren't much assailed by self-doubt in their encounters with foreign civilisations. Times, Sunday Times
These diarised moments of brutal honesty, twinned with hesitant uncertainty, are typical of Woolf's swings between self-doubt and dogged ambition.
He fumbles yet another serious role, failing to plumb the self-doubting depths of his conflicted character.
He once turned down the chance of becoming a candidate for parliament: he was much too self-effacing, and self-doubting, to do that.
This lack of knowledge contributes to self-doubt about the scenario the nurse has witnessed.
According to Wikipedia, Catholic guilt is defined as the feeling of remorse, self-doubt, or personal responsibility that results when a Catholic or Lapsed Catholic engages in sinful acts. Duh pookie
I forgive the original causes of my self-doubt and self-deception, including my family.
Full of self-doubt and lack of true self-esteem, the hero's emotions express themselves in extravagant, paranoid projections, envies and resentments - most of which he foists onto his indirect or mediated rival.
Because that insecurity and self-doubt might not be from the Enemy. Christianity Today
This isn't a plea for sympathy; along with their self-doubt, journalists are given to insufferable vanity and sanctimony.
Europeans weren't much assailed by self-doubt in their encounters with foreign civilisations. Times, Sunday Times
His new autobiography reveals a man hagridden by self-doubt and still haunted by the traumas of rejection. Times, Sunday Times
My understanding from his interview was that he did show a scintilla of self-doubt, which is very helpful for the commission, because after all, they need to make recommendations.
On the one hand, this gave the profession enough self-doubt to allow some of its brighter sons to start noodling around with the past, and to discover it was a fine thing; on the other hand, it gave us Frank Gehry, that dealer in flashy junk heaps, a sort of superficial Dinocretes writ larger than Vitruvius could have ever imagined. The Dangers of Architectural Positivism
‘I don't believe I have the right to be a best-selling author,’ Truss says, the self-doubt bubbling up again.
She seized it with an odd mixture of self-confidence and self-doubt.
And even now, a year on, I can still recall those feelings of fear and self-doubt - even down to the physical sensation of my stomach twisting into knots.
One tournament win doesn't inspire confidence but his play this week has been exceptional, a total contrast to the self-doubt that dogged him in recent times.
He can be vulnerable and self-doubting and sometimes keen to seek reassurance. Times, Sunday Times
As secular identity becomes enervated, incoherent, and perplexed, as we grow tired and unstrung by self-doubt, hating them offers odd comfort.
The reality is, friendship is normally outweighed by a nagging seam of insecurity and self-doubt.
Like many brilliant artists he seems beset by anxiety, self-doubt and an embarrassingly thin skin. Times, Sunday Times
Self-doubt began to gnaw away at her confidence.
He was afflicted by self-doubt and introspection. Times, Sunday Times
Would a more self-doubting country still have the death penalty at all? Times, Sunday Times
Neither arrogant nor self-doubting, they feel confident that they can get through stuff. Times, Sunday Times
Thankfully, Martin's status as a secure family man hasn't made the self-doubting nature of his lyrics vanish.
Last year, with my whole world in a state of flux, I was too self-absorbed and self-doubting to be able to work it out.
A team that is shot through with self-belief fields like demons; a team racked with self-doubt misfields, overthrows and - vitally - drops catches.
But Mr. Hickenlooper was perhaps best known as a documentarian whose 1991 film, "Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse," gave viewers a behind-the-scenes glimpse of director Francis Ford Coppola as he struggled with huge cost overruns and his own self-doubt to make the war epic "Apocalypse Now. George Hickenlooper dies: Emmy-winning director was 47
The internal turmoil is deepened by a distorted body image, which is created through self-doubt and lack of self-worth.
These were geniuses too busy and self-doubting to think of themselves as geniuses.
Despite that, she says she is riddled with self-doubt underneath the confident exterior.
All artists feed on themselves, and most, are introspective, self-doubting and reflective.
Saussure displayed unusual qualities for an epoch-making thinker: he was always in touch with humility and self-doubt and he had no interest whatsoever in publicity. How To Change The World « Tales from the Reading Room
If we fail to recognize the basic goodness contained within all our experiences, self-doubt blooms like algae in water, clogging up the natural flow of self-love that keeps us healthy.
Others seem to lack the self-doubting gene. The Times Literary Supplement
They are often shy, fragile, and preoccupied with feelings of self-doubt.
The Prince appears to have rid himself of the self-doubt that once plagued him. Times, Sunday Times

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