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 book liberated and celebrated the experience of inwardness amid the American obsession with outward “likability” and charismatic confidence.

From Washington Post • Apr. 8, 2022

He has no inwardness, only an obsession: the costly and elaborate re-enactment of half-remembered scenes from his past.

From New York Times • Nov. 2, 2021

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