0 deep and careful thought about your feelings, especially in relation to a moral problem or decision: --
1 deep and careful consideration of inner thoughts: --
This indicates the intricate soul-searching involved in the judicial decision.
There has been a lot of soul-searching by the police.
I have with me a file which contains more than 100 letters, many of which provoke considerable soul-searching.
It took him ages of agonising in order to be able to achieve his purpose and much soul-searching before he finally made his decision.
They are soul-searching and tearing out their hearts to try to make ends meet, and they are doing the best that they possibly can.
But rather than looking at the global perspective, the rich world has some soul-searching and wallet-searching to do.
We have some soul-searching and some reforming to do ourselves.
The decision that the law must take its course is an anxious and, indeed, soul-searching one.
