self-questioning

Such moments of clear self-questioning were of course rare, but the nerve-fretting problems always existed.

The centres of civilization seethe, as it were, and are ebullient with the agitation of the self-questioning heart.

Women who lead contemplative and sedentary lives are overmuch given to this sort of morbid self-questioning.

And he was almost bewildered by the strange answer that had come to his self-questioning.

Away went Budge, and Mrs. Burton devoted herself to thought and self-questioning.