inner-directed
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The inner-directed aesthetic concerns a queen’s personal identity.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 22, 2023
Others are more inner-directed and seem to be able to tune everything out.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 8, 2021
The story, claustrophobically set in the parish grounds of a Roman Catholic church in the Bronx and inner-directed in its drama, lacks classic qualities of opera, typically the most extroverted of forms.
From New York Times ● Feb. 3, 2013
Day-Lewis has always suggested an actor in isolation, not just because of his fondness for remaining in character throughout the filming process but because he seems so inner-directed, debating not the other actors but himself.
From Time ● Nov. 8, 2012
Full of mumbo-jumbo about "inner-directed" and "outer-directed" personalities.
From This Crowded Earth by Robert Bloch