Her actions appeared to be more the product of confusion, of some painful doubt, some crippling uncertainty.

It cost me a hard struggle, it oppressed me with many a painful doubt; but I held firm this time.

More often than I can tell you, men like this have very painful doubts, enormous feelings of guilt, feelings of .

"Come then, my lord," said the queen, with the painful doubt that is felt by those who have suffered much; "come, and may Heaven hear you."

I want to say how much I appreciate the trust and dedication you have provided to the Department in the face of painful doubt.

But he expressed painful doubt over the effects of implicating the church in its publication.

He suffered painful doubt about the note ostensibly from Nedda.

He must ask Dinah not to leave him in painful doubt longer than was needful.

He had conceived a painful doubt that he had been drawn into some plot!

Haroche's explanations threw us all into the most painful doubt.