introspection

Example Sentences

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“It’s a little bit complicated when they put an image in your head and now you’re stuck with it,” he sings in “Paint by Numbers,” which pretty handily demonstrates how lightweight the introspection is here.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 9, 2026

For all his introspection, Dunk wrongfully justifies his own survival as a transaction — a king-to-be traded for a commoner.

From Salon • Feb. 25, 2026

Raducanu has just suffered one of the most demoralising Grand Slam defeats of her career, mitigated by an off-season beset by a foot injury, with seemingly more introspection about where she is heading.

From BBC • Jan. 23, 2026

Ms. Smith, by contrast, was less about shock and volume and more concerned with merging introspection, darkness and poetry.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 25, 2025

This is reminiscent of Schooler’s experiments that I described in the Van Riper story, in which introspection destroyed people’s ability to solve insight problems.

From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell