inner-directed
Americanadjective
adjective
Other Word Forms
- inner-direction noun
Etymology
Origin of inner-directed
First recorded in 1945–50
Example Sentences
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The inner-directed aesthetic concerns a queen’s personal identity.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 22, 2023
The story, claustrophobically set in the parish grounds of a Roman Catholic church in the Bronx and inner-directed in its drama, lacks classic qualities of opera, typically the most extroverted of forms.
From New York Times • Feb. 3, 2013
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
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
Full of mumbo-jumbo about "inner-directed" and "outer-directed" personalities.
From This Crowded Earth by Bloch, Robert
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