inward-looking
Example Sentences
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Accordingly he offers a deeply interior, inward-looking turn that emphasizes how Willy has withdrawn from life and the sustenance of human connection.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 10, 2026
In a 2021 book, Jones questioned whether Itoje was suited to captaincy, writing that the second row was "very inward-looking" and did not "usually influence people off the field" - a view Itoje later denied.
From BBC • Jan. 31, 2025
The internalized, inward-looking result merges with a blank screen, onto which viewers project their own perceptions.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 1, 2024
Geopolitical tensions have also added to concerns of an English language vacuum, making China more inward-looking.
From Reuters • Nov. 7, 2023
The last of these quotations is a pastiche, but the other two are real, and all are typical of the inward-looking style that makes academic writing so tedious.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
