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introspection
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  • Seek deep introspection in the cheese aisle?†   (source)
  • This contradiction is lost on him, though; as a dog, introspection is not one of his strong points.†   (source)
  • By the time I went to Keppel, I had become introspective and quiet.†   (source)
  • But I see I am becoming unduly introspective, and in a rather morose sort of way at that.†   (source)
  • Fermina Daza, who was keeping an eye on him as she always did, but most of all when she saw him becoming introspective in public, stopped eating and put her earthly hand on his.†   (source)
  • Maybe because I tend to be quiet and introspective, and she was so outgoing and friendly, I admired her from the start.†   (source)
  • He vowed, then, to devote more time to introspection and to uncovering his true name.†   (source)
  • Charles Halloway, citizen, father, introspective husband, nightwanderer, and janitor of the town library.†   (source)
  • Introspection would be easy as a dual-edged sword.†   (source)
  • The Perils of Introspection .†   (source)
  • He took my face between his hands, still introspective.†   (source)
  • He was a tall man in a white smock, tall and stooped, with an odd pallor, and deeply introspective, I thought, six feet seven or eight, an American who did abortions, according to the people I'd talked to, out of a sense of duty and compassion, and he hadn't shaved today.†   (source)
  • As the brawny man replaced the wiry miner's boy, the introspective musician gave way to the seasoned, charismatic leader.†   (source)
  • Despite his immense fortune and his peaceful, introspective character, Esteban Trueba detested him because he was circumcised and had a Sephardic nose and kinky hair.†   (source)
  • Colonel Cathcart was drawn hypnotically toward the window with a massive, dull stare of moody introspection.†   (source)
  • During that span, there were long periods when he presumed nothing would ever be written about him, and still acted the way he always acts: headstrong, introspective, and self-directed.†   (source)
  • I was temperamentally better suited to a cognitive discipline, to an introspective field—internal medicine, or perhaps psychiatry.†   (source)
  • To most he was the mighty warrior turned introspective philosopher.†   (source)
  • Steve stopped for a moment of introspection.†   (source)
  • The "funny little man" is introspective when it comes to the subject of war.†   (source)
  • In part, she thought that the break in Oak Creek Canyon had given her too much time for introspection.†   (source)
  • He was introspective and brooding when he entered the room.†   (source)
  • Mostly she's quiet and introspective these days.†   (source)
  • Similarly his brown complexion, unremarkable features, meager body, and natural tendency toward shyness and introspection made him appear simply one of those undifferentiated thousands who throng the streets and buses.†   (source)
  • Yet, after a bout of self-introspection, I realized that though I resented him for treating me the way he did, I also felt worried for Derek.†   (source)
  • The spell of introspection she had cast on herself was unbroken, as if she hadn't moved from her seat at all.†   (source)
  • ROS: A compulsion towards philosophical introspection is his chief characteristic, if I may put it like that.†   (source)
  • It was strange, but this was not the time for social introspection.†   (source)
  • When it was over, he remained still, in profound introspection.†   (source)
  • Through travel I first became aware of the outside world; it was through travel that I found my own introspective way into becoming a part of it.†   (source)
  • He says Germans are too introspective to make good agents, and it all comes out in counterintelligence.†   (source)
  • From vomit to deep introspection: this was how Truth worked.†   (source)
  • I know, I know it's a question with no answer, undeserving of introspection.†   (source)
  • Her thoughts yanked and twisted at mine, pulling me out of my introspection.†   (source)
  • He tends to be a little introspective, but when we're together, we just click and always have.†   (source)
  • Rhunon paused, her expression introspective.†   (source)
  • With classes starting, something's changed," he says quietly, suddenly introspective.†   (source)
  • Once the fighting started, Van Riper didn't want introspection.†   (source)
  • Mark was scowling and introspective as he read the Corps Day entry of 1967.†   (source)
  • Where he was passive and introspective, I was always in motion and hated to be alone; while he placed a high value on education, school for me was like a social club with sports added in.†   (source)
  • The carpenter had just taken his measurements for the coffin, and at his side, still wearing the dress of a newly-wed grandmother that she had put on for the party, Fermina Daza was introspective and dejected.†   (source)
  • She emptied and sluiced the bedpans, swept and polished floors, made cocoa and Bovril, fetched and carried—and was delivered from introspection.†   (source)
  • That was one of the great things about being single: A person could pretty much do what he wanted, whenever he wanted, and introspection was only an option.†   (source)
  • Eragon came to love Ellesmera with its beauty and its quiet, the graceful buildings that flowed out of the trees, the haunting songs that echoed at twilight, the works of art hidden within the mysterious dwellings, and the introspection of the elves themselves, which they mixed with outbursts of merriment.†   (source)
  • Grant, forty-two, is sixteen years younger, a small, introspective man who possesses a fondness for cigars and a whisperer's way with horses.†   (source)
  • And yet, though they had examined themselves as honestly as they could, their introspection had yielded no results.†   (source)
  • He looked at him with the same intensity with which he had gazed upon Arya during their sparring sessions, the same intensity with which he had studied himself during his long night of introspection on Vroengard.†   (source)
  • The five-foot-eight General Grant, an introspective man whom Abraham Lincoln calls "the quietest little man" he's ever met, has Petersburg completely to himself He lights a cigar and basks in the still morning air, surrounded by the ruined city that eluded him for 293 miserable days.†   (source)
  • This is reminiscent of Schooler's experiments that I described in the Van Riper story, in which introspection destroyed people's ability to solve insight problems.†   (source)
  • He gulped and gripped the hawthorn staff once more, striving to ignore the mead and to concentrate upon what was immediate and tangible, instead of wallowing in dismal introspection.†   (source)
  • I was very unaccustomed to introspective, confessional silences any time during the day, but Iwas especially suspicious of morning quiet.†   (source)
  • It was during the introspective, wood-burning days of winter, when a kind of malcontented lethargy gripped us, that I found the letter that would provide the means to the grandest, most improbable voyage of all.†   (source)
  • She watched it introspectively.†   (source)
  • Furthermore, in this case we have a much more specific explanation for why introspections mess up our reactions.†   (source)
  • A period of introspection, a space of retrospection, then a mixture of both.†   (source)
  • This idea had so often visited her that one day she wrote it into a letter and her daughter scolded her for an introspective and for making a cult of sorrow.†   (source)
  • You've taken me out of myself, out of despondency and introspection, both of which have been my devils for a year.'†   (source)
  • Mother was not an introspective person, King, but she faded away after the Orkneys had killed father and Lamorak.†   (source)
  • Then he stood before the fire and looked me over in his singular introspective fashion.†   (source)
  • The very remembrance sheered off his morbid introspection.†   (source)
  • He did not distinguish Helen from Bo in his slow introspection.†   (source)
  • It is introspective, and I want to introspect.†   (source)
  • He thus typified the constant introspection wherewith he tortured, but could not purify himself.†   (source)
  • Usually, on nights like this, for there had been many lately, he could escape from this consuming introspection by thinking of children and the infinite possibilities of children—he leaned and listened and he heard a startled baby awake in a house across the street and lend a tiny whimper to the still night.†   (source)
  • Her habit of resolutely facing the facts, in her rare moments of introspection, did not now allow her to put any false gloss on the situation.†   (source)
  • His days and part of his nights were filled with operationes spirituales, with examinations of conscience, with introspection, deliberation, and mediation, and he went about it with such malicious, peevish passion that he found himself ensnared in a thousand difficulties, contradictions, and disputes.†   (source)
  • For man never reasons so much and becomes so introspective as when he suffers; since he is anxious to get at the cause of his sufferings, to learn who has produced them, and whether it is just or unjust that he should have to bear them.†   (source)
  • Billee's one fault was his excessive good nature, while Joe was the very opposite, sour and introspective, with a perpetual snarl and a malignant eye.†   (source)
  • Ernest Hemingway and William Faulkner both praised him as a writer who brought a new tremor of feeling, a new sense of introspectiveness to the American short story.†   (source)
  • Miriam had not much to do, so she found time for her beloved reading, and for writing little introspective pieces which interested her.†   (source)
  • It was not to them (not to Hugh, or Richard, or even to devoted Miss Brush) the liberator of the pent egotism, which a strong martial woman, well nourished, well descended, of direct impulses, downright feelings, and little introspective power (broad and simple—why could not every one be broad and simple? she asked) feels rise within her, once youth is past, and must eject upon some object—it may be Emigration, it may be Emancipation; but whatever it be, this object round which the…†   (source)
  • CAPTAIN DIVER: I know introspection is not good for a highly nervous state like mine, but I would like you to know where I stand.†   (source)
  • 'I think so,' murmured the Provincial Mayor; and, knitting his brows, he lapsed into an introspective state, his lips moving as one who repeats mystic words.†   (source)
  • Thus she had three weeks for introspection—for introspection beneath gloomy skies, in that old house, rendered darker by the fact that it lay in a hollow crowned by fir trees with their black shadows.†   (source)
  • He accepted the deformity which had made life so hard for him; he knew that it had warped his character, but now he saw also that by reason of it he had acquired that power of introspection which had given him so much delight.†   (source)
  • For a while an active outdoor life—golf, tennis, yachting—kept this realization from becoming morbid introspection.†   (source)
  • It took long introspection to determine the exact nature of that struggle, but at length it evolved into the paradox that Helen Rayner had opened his eyes to his duty as a man, that he accepted it, yet found a strange obstacle in the perplexing, tumultuous, sweet fear of ever going near her again.†   (source)
  • Analysis and introspection might come later; but for the moment she was not even troubled by the excesses of the upholstery or the restless convolutions of the furniture.†   (source)
  • Introspection awarded him this knowledge; during that last terrible flight on the lower Nueces and while he lay abed recuperating he had changed.†   (source)
  • He picked it up and gazed at it in the peculiar introspective fashion which was characteristic of him.†   (source)
  • If not the thing itself, it is marvellously like it, and the more so for that ethereal and intangible quality which causes it all to vanish at too close an introspection.†   (source)
  • Inward melancholy it was impossible for a man like Oak, introspective far beyond his neighbours, to banish quite, whilst conning the present untoward page of his history.†   (source)
  • He resembled his sister not in feature, but in the expression of his clear, bright eye, completely void of introspection, and in the way he smiled.†   (source)
  • …it up, and towards the end of the story we must be contented to see the hero and heroine living happily in an island of bliss on other people's troubles; and that after a long series of sham troubles (or mostly sham) of their own making, illustrated by dreary introspective nonsense about their feelings and aspirations, and all the rest of it; while the world must even then have gone on its way, and dug and sewed and baked and built and carpentered round about these useless—animals."†   (source)
  • Her nature had, in her conceit, a certain garden-like quality, a suggestion of perfume and murmuring boughs, of shady bowers and lengthening vistas, which made her feel that introspection was, after all, an exercise in the open air, and that a visit to the recesses of one's spirit was harmless when one returned from it with a lapful of roses.†   (source)
  • Henchard paused a moment, threw himself back so that his elbow rested on the table, his forehead being shaded by his hand, which, however, did not hide the marks of introspective inflexibility on his features as he narrated in fullest detail the incidents of the transaction with the sailor.†   (source)
  • Sad, indeed, that an introspection so profound and acute as this poor minister's should be so miserably deceived!†   (source)
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