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
Two themes stand out in this lumpy but fast-reading unauthorized biography, which gets the record straight yet seems to miss the inner man.
From Time Magazine Archive
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"Nun, gut,—dat man he means might be me, Katrina," said Herr Baumgärtner, with a little glance of pride at his inner man.
From The Misfit Christmas Puddings by Consolation, Club
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.