inner-directed
Example Sentences
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The inner-directed aesthetic concerns a queen’s personal identity.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 22, 2023
But there is a similar, if lesser-known, concept that is more inner-directed: emotional perfectionism.
From Washington Post • Jun. 9, 2022
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
It ought to please you that society still has a use for you outre inner-directed types.
From The Creature from Cleveland Depths by Leiber, Fritz
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
