inner-directed
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This is what Wilson was great at: volume, weight, sincerity and capturing deep, human, inner-directed presence.
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“I wanted to show that kind of brooding, contemplative, inner-directed person that’s the essence of the man.”
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You can’t turn on your phone or computer without running across searing, inner-directed polemics about how one kind of Democrat is pursuing approaches destined to doom all Democrats on issues such as critical race theory and questions around education more generally.
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Others are more inner-directed and seem to be able to tune everything out.
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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.
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