exteriority

Example Sentences

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Horror films scare us through exteriority: Image and sound come together to create the illusion of danger.

From New York Times • Oct. 25, 2021

That focus on exteriority feels like a means to treat her interiority as sacred and preserve it until she is safe.

From New York Times • Jun. 16, 2021

This form enabled me to segue seamlessly between the past and the present, character interiority and exteriority.

From The Guardian • Oct. 5, 2019

Where they part is in exteriority and ego: Wagner deals with expansion and limitlessness, while Beckett drills deeper into the idea of limitation, nowhere to go.

From The Guardian • Jul. 31, 2014

Hawthorne freely confesses to this constant exteriority, and appears to have been perfectly conscious of it.

From Hawthorne (English Men of Letters Series) by James, Henry