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

The book liberated and celebrated the experience of inwardness amid the American obsession with outward “likability” and charismatic confidence.

From Washington Post • Apr. 8, 2022

His starkly slow tempos — with the works running, in some cases, a minute or longer than usual — give these nocturnes a Satie-like inwardness.

From New York Times • Aug. 13, 2021

Their entrenched inwardness, a profoundly interior consciousness, seemed at times woven into their personalities.

From "Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho" by Jon Katz