Words similar to soul-searching

Example sentences for: soul-searching

How can you use “soul-searching” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

"Ally McBeal : A horrific school shooting provokes discussion and soul-searching among the Boston legal community and the nation.
Also, both mags do the required soul-searching about the paparazzi , concluding that the public's appetite for celebrity photos will overcome its revulsion for photographers' methods.
On the chapel’s altar wall is Michelangelo’s tempestuous Last Judgment, begun 23 years after the ceiling’s completion in 1512, when he was 60 and imbued with deep religious soul-searching.
The challenge of looking like a soul-searching statesman was made harder by Torricelli's previous record on the issue.
In other words, if one does not know the date of the Flushing Remonstrance no amount of thinking, soul-searching, calculation, or any other mental activity is going to yield the correct response to the question, “What was the date of the Flushing Remonstrance?”