inner-directed
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The inner-directed aesthetic concerns a queen’s personal identity.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 22, 2023
The story, claustrophobically set in the parish grounds of a Roman Catholic church in the Bronx and inner-directed in its drama, lacks classic qualities of opera, typically the most extroverted of forms.
From New York Times • Feb. 3, 2013
Day-Lewis has always suggested an actor in isolation, not just because of his fondness for remaining in character throughout the filming process but because he seems so inner-directed, debating not the other actors but himself.
From Time • Nov. 8, 2012
And for all the power of Firth's inner-directed subtlety, it is surely true that there are few stars who occupy such a clear place in the mind of the cinema-going public as Grant does.
From The Guardian • Sep. 25, 2010
Here is a modern tale of an inner-directed sorcerer and an outer-directed sorcerer’s apprentice … a tale of—
From The Creature from Cleveland Depths by Leiber, Fritz
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