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
They wanted to constrain the inner man with his ungovernable impulses.
From Time Magazine Archive
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One is sorry that one was not always attentive to those special details, which sometimes more potently and intimately than great deeds reveal the inner man.
From Reminiscences of Anton Chekhov by Bunin, I. A.