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But his self-conflict is what the Times reports resonates with viewers of a younger demographic.

From Fox News • Sep. 29, 2021

Precisely at this culminating point of my self-conflict did that scene occur which I have described with Miss Bl——.

From Autobiographical Sketches by De Quincey, Thomas

The force of his self-conflict took all the colour from his lips, all the light from his eyes.

From Sally of Missouri by Young, Rose E. (Rose Emmet)

Keats seems to me to have been naturally a man of complex character, many-mooded, with a tendency to perverse self-conflict.

From Life of John Keats by Rossetti, William Michael

Establish fixed principles of benevolence, justice, truthfulness, religious belief, and adhere steadfastly to them, despite the allurements of the world, the temptings of ambition, or weariness of self-conflict.

From The American Gentleman's Guide to Politeness and Fashion or, Familiar Letters to his Nephews by Lunettes, Henry