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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

Automachia, or the self-conflict of a Christian, 392.

From Notes and Queries, Index of Volume 2, May-December, 1850 A Medium of Inter-Communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, Etc. by Various

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)

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

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