inner-directed
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The inner-directed aesthetic concerns a queen’s personal identity.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 22, 2023
Day-Lewis has always suggested an actor in isolation, not just because of his fondness for remaining in character throughout the filming process but because he seems so inner-directed, debating not the other actors but himself.
From Time • Nov. 8, 2012
The song cycle is inner-directed, as if Mr. Paterson, Mr. Berkowitz and Ms. Meeds could read his mind as he stood on the plate.
From New York Times • Feb. 29, 2012
Grant is the ultimate other-directed figure, who wants to be loved rather than esteemed, while Firth is inner-directed and looks back to a much older, more grounded tradition.
From The Guardian • Sep. 25, 2010
Here is a modern tale of an inner-directed sorcerer and an outer-directed sorcerer’s apprentice … a tale of—
From The Creature from Cleveland Depths by Leiber, Fritz
