inward-looking
Example Sentences
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Accordingly he offers a deeply interior, inward-looking turn that emphasizes how Willy has withdrawn from life and the sustenance of human connection.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 10, 2026
Jones questioned whether Itoje was suited to captaincy in a 2021 book, claiming the second row was "very inward-looking" and did not "usually influence people off the field".
From BBC • Sep. 18, 2024
The inward-looking fantasy is set in multiple black-box rooms with minimalist furnishings — a communal, ritualistic hub, a library, a bathroom, a bedroom and a mini forest among them.
From Los Angeles Times • May 10, 2024
Geopolitical tensions have also added to concerns of an English language vacuum, making China more inward-looking.
From Reuters • Nov. 7, 2023
The last of these quotations is a pastiche, but the other two are real, and all are typical of the inward-looking style that makes academic writing so tedious.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
