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Accordingly he offers a deeply interior, inward-looking turn that emphasizes how Willy has withdrawn from life and the sustenance of human connection.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
It’s art that conveys a sense of nationalistic pride, and it’s perhaps representative of shifting an outward-facing, global ride with one that may suddenly be more inward-looking.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2025
This inward-looking approach led to a steady decline in India's export share of global trade, from 2.42% in 1948 to just 0.51% by 1991.
From BBC ● Feb. 4, 2025
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
