inner-directed
Example Sentences
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This is what Wilson was great at: volume, weight, sincerity and capturing deep, human, inner-directed presence.
From Washington Post
“I wanted to show that kind of brooding, contemplative, inner-directed person that’s the essence of the man.”
From Washington Post
Primarily written by David Riesman, with contributions from Reuel Denney and Dr. Glazer, the book proposed three character types with which to divide society — “other-directed,” “inner-directed” and “tradition-directed” — and was widely seen as a swipe at American consumerism and conformity.
From Washington Post
At times, these inner-directed moments last too long, and it takes a while for “ink” to surge forward again.
From Washington Post
There was a tremendous New Yorker profile in October that depicted the Cohen of 1960 living in London with an Olivetti typewriter and a blue Burberry raincoat, writing to a publisher of how his work would appeal to “inner-directed adolescents, lovers in all degrees of anguish, disappointed Platonists, pornography-peepers, hair-handed monks and popists”.
From The Guardian
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
