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单词 inwardness
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Definition of inwardness in English:

inwardness

noun ˈɪnwədnɪsˈɪnwərdnəs
mass noun
  • Preoccupation with one's inner self; concern with spiritual or philosophical matters rather than externalities.

    I sensed his inwardness and his desire not to talk
    it's the inwardness of such people, their not caring what happens anywhere else in the world
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Crucially, Capildeo's descriptions of arid, dormant inwardness reveal a preoccupation with the static or unchanging, which relates to her book's encounter with myth.
    • Slowly I began to grasp what Sisko was after, namely a sense of inwardness and detachment.
    • Argonauts of the future, or shipwrecked sailors of the past, we move from actual space to imaginary space, from inwardness to outwardness, from intimacy to immensity.
    • On the need for devout inwardness, medieval Catholics and early modern Lutherans were at one.
    • If the Chinese sages had it right, there's something about womanhood and its yin energy that embraces inwardness, acceptance, inner strength, compassion, joy.
    • Chekhov became an interpreter of the underneath life through small observations and comical imitations of daily life even as his characters appear to be cut off from inwardness.
    • Their one consistent quality is their inwardness.
    • In their discussion of prayer the rabbis of the Talmud introduced the concept of kavvana (direction, intention), or inwardness.
    • It is perfectly true, of course, that inwardness - or self-cultivation or self-overcoming or whatever you like to call it - requires a sufficiency of material goods.
    • The continuing failure to see the South Vietnamese as central actors in their own history is one important measure of the continuing inwardness of much scholarly writing on the war.
    • The conception of this landscape as ‘remote’ supports the common depiction of the Hoa Hao religion as one of inwardness or otherworldliness.
    • In any case, they were all clearly under the spell of the work itself, and the seething inwardness of the poetic vision conjured up by Barenboim and his orchestra.
    • The greatest inwardness was not incompatible with public display of piety.
    • It creates a startling atmosphere of intensity and highly unusual inwardness - sometimes disturbing - and makes it utterly distinct from anything in Western dance and theatre.
    • His studies of the Quakers and of pietism described passive inwardness and feeling as the dominant characteristics of the German Enlightenment.
    • The abbey's inwardness and composure is fascinating, amidst such a roar of nature.
    • More and more I am trying to discover an organic form that is true to the particular moment of the particular poem, the simple plain inwardness of that moment.
    • As early as 1931, he had fully grasped the kind of inwardness that the camera required for the expression of maximum behavioral intimacy.
    • Their emphasis is on inwardness and the spiritual life, a differentiation between the self of the body and that of the true self, or tman.
    • For the first time in fiction, in Don Quixote's absolute inwardness, we discover something like the self.
 
 

Definition of inwardness in US English:

inwardness

nounˈɪnwərdnəsˈinwərdnəs
  • Preoccupation with one's inner self; concern with spiritual or philosophical matters rather than externalities.

    I sensed his inwardness and his desire not to talk
    it's the inwardness of such people, their not caring what happens anywhere else in the world
    Example sentencesExamples
    • In any case, they were all clearly under the spell of the work itself, and the seething inwardness of the poetic vision conjured up by Barenboim and his orchestra.
    • In their discussion of prayer the rabbis of the Talmud introduced the concept of kavvana (direction, intention), or inwardness.
    • As early as 1931, he had fully grasped the kind of inwardness that the camera required for the expression of maximum behavioral intimacy.
    • The greatest inwardness was not incompatible with public display of piety.
    • His studies of the Quakers and of pietism described passive inwardness and feeling as the dominant characteristics of the German Enlightenment.
    • It creates a startling atmosphere of intensity and highly unusual inwardness - sometimes disturbing - and makes it utterly distinct from anything in Western dance and theatre.
    • Their one consistent quality is their inwardness.
    • The continuing failure to see the South Vietnamese as central actors in their own history is one important measure of the continuing inwardness of much scholarly writing on the war.
    • For the first time in fiction, in Don Quixote's absolute inwardness, we discover something like the self.
    • Chekhov became an interpreter of the underneath life through small observations and comical imitations of daily life even as his characters appear to be cut off from inwardness.
    • The abbey's inwardness and composure is fascinating, amidst such a roar of nature.
    • More and more I am trying to discover an organic form that is true to the particular moment of the particular poem, the simple plain inwardness of that moment.
    • The conception of this landscape as ‘remote’ supports the common depiction of the Hoa Hao religion as one of inwardness or otherworldliness.
    • Crucially, Capildeo's descriptions of arid, dormant inwardness reveal a preoccupation with the static or unchanging, which relates to her book's encounter with myth.
    • If the Chinese sages had it right, there's something about womanhood and its yin energy that embraces inwardness, acceptance, inner strength, compassion, joy.
    • On the need for devout inwardness, medieval Catholics and early modern Lutherans were at one.
    • Argonauts of the future, or shipwrecked sailors of the past, we move from actual space to imaginary space, from inwardness to outwardness, from intimacy to immensity.
    • It is perfectly true, of course, that inwardness - or self-cultivation or self-overcoming or whatever you like to call it - requires a sufficiency of material goods.
    • Slowly I began to grasp what Sisko was after, namely a sense of inwardness and detachment.
    • Their emphasis is on inwardness and the spiritual life, a differentiation between the self of the body and that of the true self, or tman.
 
 
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