Word: self-doubt
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...that is the only part of his story that his backers care to talk about. They downplay the possibility that Thomas' life may be a case study of the wrenching impact of "integration shock" -- author Shelby Steele's name for the intense feelings of racial inferiority and self-doubt that can assault and sometimes overwhelm blacks who, like Thomas, were suddenly taken from their familiar surroundings and plunged into a previously all-white and not always welcoming world...
Rajiv Gandhi's murder plunges India into self-doubt and despair...
...coalition have given such a flawless demonstration of what can happen when the sheriff and posse get organized. The image of America abroad has changed dramatically because of the gulf war. Before the war, much of the world saw America as a fading power, riddled with self-doubt and persistent social problems, gradually being overshadowed by the economic might of Japan and Germany. Nowhere does condescension toward Americans achieve the exquisite and insufferable effects that it accomplishes in France. In the mid-1960s, some Frenchmen wondered if the Americans would ever make it to the moon if they insisted...
Among Americans, the war has finally laid to rest all the ghosts of Vietnam. Self-doubt, deep divisions, suspicions of national decline -- the very words suddenly seem quaint. The problem now may be to contain the surge of pride and unity before it bursts the bounds of reason and passes into jingoism, even hubris...
...killing of American students at Kent State -- somehow only increased as the years passed. When the U.S.-led forces raced across Kuwait and Iraq last week, however, they may have defeated not just the Iraqi army but also the more virulent of the ghosts from the Vietnam era: self-doubt, fear of power, divisiveness, a fundamental uncertainty about America's purpose in the world...