soulsearching

comparative more soulsearching · superlative most soulsearching

1. alternativeAlternative form of soul-searching.

   After a miscarriage, we went through considerable soulsearching and lifestyle changes.

   1993 August, Lilibeth MacLean, “Theater Life”, in New Beginnings

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   Whatever one thinks of [Frederick Campbell] Crews's indictment, the issues he raises represent important challenges to psychoanalysis and should encourage serious, even soulsearching, thought on the part of psychoanalytic adherents.

   1988 May, Morris N. Eagle, “Is Psychoanalysis a Fraudulent Doctrine?”, in Contemporary Psychology: APA Review of Books, volume 33, number 5, →DOI, abstract, page 404

1. alternativeuncountableAlternative form of soul-searching.

   There is a parallel between President Kennedy's election battlecry—"let's get America moving again"—and the soulsearching going on in Britain.

   1961, “Soulsearching in Britain”, in International Management, volume 16, number 2, page 3

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   To the militarists foreign conquest offered a solution to several problems at once: how to expand markets for Japanese products, how to guarantee sources of raw materials, how to restore national self-confidence at a moment of soulsearching, and how to consolidate political power at home.

   1992, H[enry] W[illiam] Brands, “The Bottom Line: 1927–1934”, in Bound to Empire: The United States and the Philippines, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 144

   Yet there is little hint in this set of essays (formed mainly of English Catholic voices, though also receiving North American and European contributions) of the trauma or soulsearching with regard to the idea of vocation that this decline has induced in certain other contexts.

   2015 July, Sam Hole, “The Disciples' Call: Theologies of Vocation from Scripture to the Present Day”, in Anglican Theological Review, volume 97, number 3

1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of soulsearch