inner nature
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Their entire business model, their whole inner nature, is predicated on hair-trigger litigiousness, predatory aggressiveness and a hunger to win at all costs.
From Salon ● May 24, 2025
"Our research establishes a strong link between quantum mechanics and astrophysics and provides a new perspective on the inner nature of neutron stars," says first author Elena Poli.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 5, 2023
The wolf suit Max wears in the story expresses his inner nature, his essentially untamed heart: “I’ll eat you up!”
From Slate ● Nov. 12, 2019
At the age of 70, with his pinstripe suit and sensible hair, he resembles an ageing bank manager toiling – not altogether successfully – to restrain his puckish inner nature.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 15, 2012
This bad habit has induced us to try to understand and interpret even the inner nature, the intellectual and moral world, in accordance with such contrasts.
From Human, All-Too-Human, Part II by Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm