Sample Sentences for
introspection
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  • Introspection requires you to think and analyze.†  (source)
  • This contradiction is lost on him, though; as a dog, introspection is not one of his strong points.†  (source)
  • I did not read to anyone this evening; I could not, for poetic introspection would bring me to tears.†  (source)
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  • Raw and emotional, disinclined toward introspection, he had the kind of gregarious, magnetic personality that instantly won him friends for life; hundreds of individualsincluding some he'd met just once or twice-considered him a bosom buddy.†  (source)
  • He had changed since Johann's departure, often seeming too serious and introspective for his age.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ive" converts a word into an adjective; though over time, what was originally an adjective often comes to be used as a noun. The adjective pattern means tending to and is seen in words like attractive, impressive, and supportive. Examples of the noun include narrative, alternative, and detective.
  • Furthermore, in this case we have a much more specific explanation for why introspections mess up our reactions.†  (source)
  • She watched it introspectively.†  (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)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
  • He thus typified the constant introspection wherewith he tortured, but could not purify himself.†  (source)
  • But I see I am becoming unduly introspective, and in a rather morose sort of way at that.†  (source)
  • Steve stopped for a moment of introspection.†  (source)
  • Your taste runs to the quiet, the sober, the introspective.†  (source)
  • When it was over, he remained still, in profound introspection.†  (source)
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