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inner-directed

[in-er-di-rek-tid, -dahy-] / ˈɪn ər dɪˈrɛk tɪd, -daɪ- /


ADJECTIVE
introspective
Synonyms
Antonyms
STRONGEST






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This is what Wilson was great at: volume, weight, sincerity and capturing deep, human, inner-directed presence.

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“I wanted to show that kind of brooding, contemplative, inner-directed person that’s the essence of the man.”

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A couple of passages can be read as inner-directed.

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But there is a similar, if lesser-known, concept that is more inner-directed: emotional perfectionism.

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You can’t turn on your phone or computer without running across searing, inner-directed polemics about how one kind of Democrat is pursuing approaches destined to doom all Democrats on issues such as critical race theory and questions around education more generally.

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