inwardness

Example Sentences

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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

“It enlarges your sense of human possibility, of what human nature is, of what happens in the world. It’s a creator of inwardness.”

From New York Times

Bender’s concern with evoking the inwardness of objects, however, is less common to fiction than to poetry.

From New York Times

After 2009, Italy’s inwardness rose rapidly compared with that of other countries.

From Nature

Her inwardness is key to her appeal, that nervy detachment.

From New York Times