The New Zealand killings are generating widespread soul-searching about the role of social media in spreading hatred.
Hollywood's chorus of protest at the Oscars' failure to nominate actors of colour for awards this year suggests widespread soul-searching and yearning for reform.
"The English are waking up!" the man shouted in French during his arrest, eliciting widespread soul-searching about the depth of the province's linguistic divide.
Mr. Yokoi returned in 1972 to Japan -- an entirely different country than the one he had last seen in August 1940 -- and he stirred widespread soul-searching within Japan about whether he represented the best impulses of the national spirit or the silliest.
And why all of a sudden is it not O.K. to do that in Florida, and why won't he take the vice president's deal and have a manual recount of the entire state?" Although grumbling was widespread, some hardy souls were still enjoying the political maneuvering.
This argument confronts head-on the widespread worry that the soul, at or soon after death, is destroyed by being dispersed.
About two-thirds of those people are still buried intact after they die, in keeping with the widespread Chinese belief that the soul will find peace only with the body in the ground.
And of course, the work extends itself to all victims of criminal abuse and terror, if for no other reason than the motif of birds conveys the most widespread analogy to the human soul in cultures around the world.
A widespread view was that the souls of the dead dwell in the zalktis (Latvian; Lithuanian žaltys; "green snake"); thus special care was taken in its feeding.
Though belief in rebirth and the transmigration of souls has been widespread, however, especially in preliterate religions, it was in India and Greece that the two concepts attained their highest development.
In 1903, an era of lynchings and widespread belief in innate black inferiority, "Souls" was both embraced and reviled.
