Word: self-doubt
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Worst of all, Burdick thought, was what he called "cultural passivity." In England, he found, there was none of "the rise and fall, the massive brooding anxiety, the creative stabbing of self-doubt, the tortures of ethnic inadequacy that one finds to a marked degree in America and Asia . . ." He doubted very much whether England "could today produce a Shakespeare," but thought America or Asia might...
...Eliot, with pity as well as derision, exposed its vulgarity, its self-doubt, its confusion and frustration, the 20th Century had no difficulty in recognizing itself. Eliot became one of the strongest influences on two generations of writers-his own contemporaries, and their immediate successors...
...Never Leave Me! The secret of father Sitwell's impressiveness was not so much that he was very rich but that he never so much as recognized such enfeebling concepts as self-doubt and humility. He had well-founded doubts, however, of his children's self-reliance. "It is dangerous for you," he often informed Osbert, Sacheverell and Edith, "to lose touch with me for a single day." Like many Victorians, he invested his maddest behavior with an aura of impeccable sanity...
This is one source of Hedda's power. When self-doubt stabs, she and Lolly, her redoubtable counterpart, pour on the balm. But the hand that drops the balm is also armed with claws. And Hedda's claws have grown long and sharp since she discovered her powers...
...policies changed in the process. Major scenes are Ivan's coronation; his destruction of the Tartar city of Kazan; his rising from his supposed deathbed to abash those who are plotting against his son's succession. Half mad with grief and self-doubt after his wife's murder and his best friend's treachery, Ivan abdicates. At the end of the picture, by request of the common people, he returns to the throne, confident of "everlasting rule." As Eisenstein tells it, this vindication of Ivan becomes, by many parallels, a vindication of Stalin and his regime...