inner self
Example Sentences
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As if unwilling to reveal anything of his inner self, Dillon kept his desktop bare save for a pencil, a notebook and a telephone.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 21, 2025
Second, he was compensating for his personal, characterological feeling of powerlessness – asserting unlimited future power to convince his doubting inner self to “fake it ‘til he makes it.”
From Salon • Dec. 7, 2023
During seizures, the patient said, he would enter a strange state of dissociation that caused him to lose his sense of coordination and feel disconnected with his inner self.
From Scientific American • Jul. 12, 2023
I got more involved in meditation for my own inner self.
From New York Times • Apr. 9, 2022
Music expresses children’s identity and heritage, teaches them to belong to a culture, and develops their cognitive well-being and inner self worth.
From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin
