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

Herman Melville in particular — one of the “great explorers of inwardness, mystery and the inexplicable” — became a companion spirit, traveling some of the same paths as Iyer.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 9, 2023

The DeCarava images introduce sections of the show in which the definition of “Black melancholia” expands in several directions, all encompassing various modes of subjectivity, inwardness.

From New York Times • Jun. 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

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