inwardness

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Martin Luther’s personal spiritual struggles brought St. Paul’s inwardness to its fullest expression; after Luther, Mr. Persico writes, “God no longer resided in the heavens, but in the human heart.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 24, 2025

The inwardness of McCorkle’s Omar has an overwhelming gravity.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 23, 2022

It explores the tension between the inwardness of Romantic philosophy and the ethical or political aspirations of its practitioners, nearly all of whom supported the French Revolution.

From Washington Post • Sep. 22, 2022

Even before the isolation of the past year, Valerie June’s artistic intuition had led her toward thoughts of stillness, meditation and inwardness.

From New York Times • Mar. 4, 2021

Vincent can be a good antidote to Theo’s own inwardness and tendency to melancholy.

From "Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers" by Deborah Heiligman