0 the act of thinking very seriously about your feelings, usually before making an important decision:
Great heart-searching and anguish was caused, but the church was gone.
We all know of the heart-searching and the agony of some people who are unable to have children.
It might have been hoped that that failure would have led to the most heart-searching reappraisal.
On our part it has needed some pretty severe heart-searching to reach this conclusion.
It gave rise to a great deal of difficulty and heart-searching, and to many unfortunate situations, and the law had to be changed.
In the legal profession we have been going through a similar heart-searching.
It has been with a great deal of heart-searching that some of us have arrived at that conclusion.
This may require further heart-searching decisions and even more contraction within the industry.
