How to Use inwardness in a Sentence

inwardness

noun
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  • The days of fragility or inwardness in Mozart are over.
    — Alan Artner, chicagotribune.com, 16 Apr. 2018
  • The essence of her beauty, in recent years, is its inwardness.
    — Susan Dominus Photographs By Joshua Kissi Styled By Ian Bradley Sasha Weiss Photographs By Collier Schorr Styled By Jay Massacret Megan O’Grady Portrait By Mickalene Thomas and Racquel Chevremont Ligaya Mishan Photographs By Tina Barney, New York Times, 14 Oct. 2021
  • Kierkegaard’s concept of inwardness gives us this task in a very different form.
    — Christopher Beha, Harper's Magazine, 27 Apr. 2020
  • His starkly slow tempos — with the works running, in some cases, a minute or longer than usual — give these nocturnes a Satie-like inwardness.
    — New York Times, 13 Aug. 2021
  • The new inwardness which is to be our choice which is out of absolute necessity the motive of my own choosing is really a declaration of the self and its power.
    — Jarrett Earnest, The New York Review of Books, 17 Nov. 2021
  • Most of all, perhaps, a reading of inwardness could be prompted by her own layered self-invention, exemplified in her decision to become Anna Kavan in the first place.
    — Lidija Haas, Harper's magazine, 20 Jan. 2020
  • Both Agnew and Orlinski leaned toward inwardness in their shaping of phrases.
    — John Von Rhein, chicagotribune.com, 24 Apr. 2018
  • The nearly hourlong Schubert work is a large-scale concert mass and at the same time a deeply personal expression of faith: music of spirituality and inwardness but also music of confession.
    — John Von Rhein, chicagotribune.com, 23 Mar. 2018
  • What the early monks and the Christian mystics who followed sought was union—an intense experience of inwardness that is glaringly absent in what many of us get from American Christianity today.
    — Fred Bahnson, Harpers Magazine, 5 Jan. 2021
  • What remains most in one’s memory after an immersion in Keaton are the quiet, uncanny shots of him in seclusion, his sensitive face registering his own inwardness.
    — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 24 Jan. 2022
  • All of the nations showed modest rises in inwardness over time, which can be explained, paradoxically, by a growth in international collaborations.
    — Giorgia Guglielmi, Science | AAAS, 11 Sep. 2019
  • So Baccini, De Nicolao, and their team set out to develop an indicator of inwardness, which measures both self-referential and intranational citations.
    — Giorgia Guglielmi, Science | AAAS, 11 Sep. 2019
  • Veterans point to the conservatory’s cultural inwardness and intolerance of defectors as well as the leveraging of secrets, but also to Gifford’s frequent invocation of Scientology teachings.
    — Gary Baum, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 May 2022
  • And, unusually, Moser’s interpretation proved more memorable for inwardness than emphatic display.
    — Alan Artner, chicagotribune.com, 30 June 2018
  • This inwardness is sometimes expressed through spirituality.
    — Vogue, 30 May 2022

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