soul-searching

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NOUN
  1. a penetrating examination of your own beliefs and motives
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How To Use soul-searching In A Sentence

  • But as the drama begins to unfold, it poses soul-searching questions.
  • After a great deal of soul-searching, I finally arrived at a conclusion.
  • From the time he took up his headquarters on the hill at Cassel, he became “a desk man”; it was no longer his function to execute orders; thenceforth he had the far more trying duty of issuing orders ” a truly awful responsibility and one which demands much solitude, much soul-searching as well as map-pondering and other weighing of the ponderable which is so easily off-set by the imponderable, the unguessable. Foch the Man
  • Behind all the soul-searching lay a deep anxiety that the world is at an inflection point. Times, Sunday Times
  • The battle scenes are suitably bloodthirsty and chaotic, but they are balanced by scenes of self-justification and soul-searching.
  • Sometimes the realization comes from a self-evaluating, soul-searching process.
  • There have been terrible moments that invited ridicule and soul-searching. Times, Sunday Times
  • Nobody escapes a divorce without a lot of soul-searching. FRIENDS FOR LIFE
  • Such revisionary thoughts troubled me last week, and I reached a remarkable conclusion after the soul-searching: I do not need to bet to enjoy racing.
  • Still, the discipline needs to do some soul-searching and find ways to make economics scholarship something other than a highbrow appendage to the multitrillion-dollar financial sector. What 'Inside Job' does (and doesn't) get right about the financial crisis
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