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
It involves an evaluation of the inner man through his outward features.
From Time Magazine Archive
Hot Rice-Milk this woman calls— Behold her bright can, As up and down the streets she bawls Hot Rice-Milk to warm the inner man.
From A History of the Cries of London Ancient and Modern by Hindley, Charles
