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
It explores the tension between the inwardness of Romantic philosophy and the ethical or political aspirations of its practitioners, nearly all of whom supported the French Revolution.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 22, 2022
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
Vincent can be a good antidote to Theo’s own inwardness and tendency to melancholy.
From "Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers" by Deborah Heiligman
