inner man
Example Sentences
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As a painter, she saw the part of the surface that revealed the inner man — the bourgeois fop within the fiery revolutionary.
From New York Times ● Mar. 21, 2020
He was always affable but also very private and he never gave much away: those of us who worked with him were allowed to know little of the inner man.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 12, 2010
Elliott described his friend’s “supreme talent for deception” but saw the inner man simply as “schizophrenic.”
From Washington Post
Wrote one reporter who was at the conference: "Even when he was most amusing, it seemed almost as if some inner man were monitoring his performance for later re-examination."
From Time Magazine Archive
Nothing so betrays the status of the inner man as that outer garment.
From The Wayfarers by Cutting, Mary Stewart Doubleday
