Word: self-doubt
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...power rays" that flow from healthy bodies. He invokes Einstein's mathematics to justify his own mystical yearnings and "inner vibrations." He attempts to cross socialism with Darwin. He sees Jews as both "economic liberalists" and the organizers of the Soviet Comintern. Then, without a hint of irony or self-doubt, he projects his own faults on intellectuals: "seldom more than a bunch of diseased brains who toss scraps of disconnected and purely synthetically amassed knowledge in dialectically exaggerated and overly subtle formulations back and forth to each other...
...once like you, my friends—a young, bold intellectual, full of sarcasm, prone to bitter self-doubt and frequent crises. Then I saw the video for “Evil,” and realized that the puppet protagonist embodied all these intimate emotions...
...learned that being a third-generation survivor by definition means self-doubt. I wonder what it would have been like for me, what I would have done if I were there. I feel obligated to bear witness, to amass all the information I can so I can impart it when there are no survivors left...
...skills. But although he began acting as a 10-year-old in Denver, he says he still cringes whenever he sees himself onscreen. In fact, he has yet to watch some of his films. "My father is a psychologist, and he says that's healthy-- you should have some self-doubt," says Cheadle. "If you ever think that you're all there, then that's something to worry about." Maybe it's that kind of common sense that makes Cheadle so understanding of all those regular guys he plays. --By Desa Philadelphia
...incident leads Charlotte to question her moral character relentlessly, and engage in a bender of self-doubt in which she is described, simply as “depressed,” literally dozens of times by an uncharacteristically unimaginative Wolfe. Charlotte also mentally appeals innumerable times to “Mama,” her mother back in Sparta, a maternal figure straight out of the ’50s—the 1850s...