exteriority

Example Sentences

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To be alive is to grapple with these two truths, to struggle at the intersection of self and society, interiority and exteriority, individuality and environment.

From New York Times • Mar. 28, 2023

Horror films scare us through exteriority: Image and sound come together to create the illusion of danger.

From New York Times • Oct. 25, 2021

This form enabled me to segue seamlessly between the past and the present, character interiority and exteriority.

From The Guardian • Oct. 5, 2019

Where they part is in exteriority and ego: Wagner deals with expansion and limitlessness, while Beckett drills deeper into the idea of limitation, nowhere to go.

From The Guardian • Jul. 31, 2014

Nature to Hegel is the idea in the form of hetereity; and finding itself here it has to remove this exteriority in a progressive evolution towards an existence for itself in life and mind.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 1 "Evangelical Church Conference" to "Fairbairn, Sir William" by Various