The phrase "a searching interview" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe an interview that is thorough, probing, or aimed at uncovering deeper insights or truths.
Example: "The candidate was nervous going into a searching interview, knowing that the panel would ask challenging questions to assess their suitability for the role."
Alternatives: "an in-depth interview" or "a probing interview".
Just over halfway through this year's crop of Sundance documentaries, some of the memorable films include a remarkably intimate, vérité portrait of sex scandal-ridden politicos (Weiner); a searching, interview-laden inquiry into whether "the internet dreams of itself" by Werner Herzog (Lo and Behold); and a doc/fiction hybrid on suicidal TV journalist Christine Chubbuck Kate Plays Christinene).
Thanks to Chris McGreal for a searching, sensitive interview with Rachel Dolezal ('I don't believe in race. It's a fiction', G2, 14 December).
The participants' image retrieval tasks were collected by pre- and post-search questionnaires, and a post-search interview.
NBC's disgraced Brian Williams sat for a soul-searching interview with Today's Matt Lauer to explain and apologize for his fabulist storytelling before he returns to the NBC airwaves.
Sir Robin Day, a BBC broadcaster widely known as the "grand inquisitor" for a relentless and searching interviewing technique that revolutionized British television news, died on Sunday night.
Surveillance film of armed raids on seemingly innocuous businesses — an Ohio food co-op and a Mennonite farm in Pennsylvania — pumps up a paranoia that more searching interviews with government representatives might have diluted.
Studs Terkel, a Pulitzer Prize-winning author whose searching interviews with ordinary Americans helped establish oral history as a serious genre, and who for decades was the voluble host of a popular radio show in Chicago, died Friday at his home there.
The content validity is ascertained during a qualitative phase which includes a literature search, interviews with experts, and patient focus groups.
The item selection for the original PEDsQL™ was based on a literature search, interviews with cancer patients and their families, and discussions with pediatric health care professionals [ 26].
The authors' views of countries and conditions are anchored in their searching interviews with the people who live and work there.
