inner man
Example Sentences
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As a painter, she saw the part of the surface that revealed the inner man — the bourgeois fop within the fiery revolutionary.
From New York Times • Mar. 21, 2020
He was always affable but also very private and he never gave much away: those of us who worked with him were allowed to know little of the inner man.
From The Guardian • Dec. 12, 2010
Elliott described his friend’s “supreme talent for deception” but saw the inner man simply as “schizophrenic.”
From Washington Post
Still others, fed up with starvation, if not with protest, chew on the stringent cud of their inner man.
From Time Magazine Archive
Freedom from all the ordinary restraints which civilisation imposed upon the natural inner man might easily run to wildest licence.
From Maid of the Mist by Oxenham, John
