Word: self-doubt
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...surprised when pious Gerard, the eldest brother, became so filled with "gnawing self-doubt" and the need to test his strength that he abstained from liquids until his tongue turned black. Sometimes he lay in bed, "filled with mortification . . . contemplating the ugli ness of the name Hopkins"-a loathing from which he never recovered. "Tuncks is a good name," the youth wrote in his diary; "Gerard Manley Tuncks...
...that he may have "lost" it for her. When she cannot recall some trifling matter, it never occurs to her that it may never have happened. When she remembers a certain letter which would give her husband's game away, she is already so far gone in self-doubt that he easily persuades her that there was no such letter...
...affections, loyalty to the long-buried past, high-aims qualified by too mocking a sense of humour, serenity clouded by petulance and broken by occasional black despairs, playboy charm and theatricality, imagination that overruns itself and tires, extreme generosity, serpent cunning, lion courage, diabolic intuition, and the curse of self-doubt...