Word: self-doubt
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...death are often far less glorious than propaganda would have them be. The official canon largely skirted the implications of war, preferring a simplified tale of good vs. evil. Roberts refuses to shy from describing the realities, from reluctant soldiers and simple pragmatists to heroes wracked with self-doubt and pity...
Harlow's descent into obscurity had a lot to do with the man himself. He was a hard-nosed experimentalist and a poet, a workaholic and an alcoholic. Despite his extraordinary success, Harlow was constantly plagued with depression and self-doubt. He was appallingly sexist in some ways yet treated female colleagues with absolute equality...
...road from a single building, Harvard Hall, in 1636 to the world’s most famous university has not been an easy one. It has been constantly mined with criticisms and questions of self-doubt, relevance and purpose. Today’s critics are only the latest to ask whether Harvard is falling behind...
...wife Laura (Catherine B. Gowl ’02) as she schemes to obtain control over their daughter Bertha’s education. Laura plant seeds of suspicion in the Captain’s mind about the true paternity of Bertha and about his very ability to reason. This self-doubt festers into violence and madness, and Laura’s triumph in controlling both her daughter and husband’s fate...
Julia, played convincingly by Irene Daly, embodies the woman ruled by self-doubt. She is a cripple with vivid delusions of an unseen oppressor who, in one scene, forces her to recite a prayer that calls women unclean creatures denied entrance into heaven...