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Example sentences for "inwardness"

Lexicographically close words:
invulnerable; inward; inwarde; inwardlie; inwardly; inwards; inwoven; inwrought; iodate
  1. England has not yet appreciated the true inwardness of a favorite phrase of ours,--a new deal.

  2. By the light, too, of these same beliefs, the inwardness of the moral end assumes an explicable meaning.

  3. The complexity of poetry is the source of its strength, lending it something of the inwardness of music and the plasticity of the pictorial arts; but is also the source of its weakness.

  4. As rhythmical, poetry shares the inwardness of music; wherefore, unless its rhythm is to be a mere functionless, ornamental dress, whatever it expresses should have its source in the inner man.

  5. With impish relish of the inwardness of the situation, he stirs the mixture in the pot.

  6. The same is in some degree true of Walkuere and Goetterdaemmerung; even of Parsifal one need to know the inwardness of the plot.

  7. Wherever such individual activity languished, the inwardness of life at once became weak; the whole threatened to lose its spiritual nature and to be transformed into mere mechanism.

  8. If inwardness is so feeble and external relations so overwhelm us, life necessarily receives its content from outside, and seems to be determined essentially by that which happens around us.

  9. If the formation of reality from within once begins, and the desire for a substantial inwardness gains the day over the merely subjective, then the intolerable inadequacy of all that is usually called life is bound to be strongly felt.

  10. Life could not emancipate itself from its attachment to the environment and develop an inwardness without effecting a revolution in this problem.

  11. In everything life seeks a deeper basis; an inwardness wins an independence of the environment, and exercises on the environment a transforming power.

  12. For the contrast with the cold and rigid external world has deepened the inwardness of human relationship and made us conscious of the dignity and greatness of spiritual creation.

  13. The inwardness that we advocate is not a feeble echo and a yearning for dissolution, but is of an active and masculine nature, and rests on ceaseless self-determining activity.

  14. Through the emergence of a world-transcendent inwardness there appear characteristic tasks and complications, also for the more detailed development of our life.

  15. The apparent inwardness that is evolved at this level is simply an after-effect of sensuous feelings and desires.

  16. In the striving of humanity and in the soul of the individual there is a movement towards a world-transcendent life, a life that first attains to a complete inwardness when it becomes world-transcendent.

  17. The inwardness of what was passing before his eyes was hidden from him, who had looked on, more impenetrably than from me who at a distance of years was listening to his words.

  18. What is to be noted is that even in London, having had time to take a reflective view, poor Flora was far from being certain as to the true inwardness of her violent dismissal.

  19. The full inwardness of these changes will be considered when we come to the personal aspect of the spiritual life.

  20. This double character of inwardness and practicality seems to me to be essential to its success; and incorporation will certainly help it to be maintained.

  21. The inwardness and solidity of this quiet beauty comes from the intrinsic character of the pleasure which makes it up.

  22. And we may even feel that there is a wholeness and inwardness about the development of certain ideal characters, that makes such a treatment of them fundamentally false and artificial.

  23. This material beauty adds incalculably, as we have already pointed out, to the inwardness and sublimity of the effect.

  24. Their only effect was to do violence to the inwardness which belongs of necessity to spiritual life.

  25. But it is to the very inwardness of life that intuition leads us--by intuition I mean instinct that has become disinterested, self-conscious, capable of reflecting upon its object and of enlarging it indefinitely.

  26. Of what use are logic and argument when we find the true inwardness of the bologna sausage on the outside?

  27. If she discovered the true inwardness of this Anglo-American "Jewdesprit," she refrained from saying anything about it.

  28. There is manifest gain in complexity of organization, both physical and cultural; and only less manifest, in the sense that the inwardness of the process cannot make appeal to the eye, is the corresponding gain in realized power of soul.

  29. With this comes the conviction that the source of all this lies inward, in that inwardness where our true selves lie and springs from the very nature of that.

  30. On some great central truths, such as the inwardness of happiness and the brotherhood of man, Plutarch and the Stoics were at one.

  31. As not affecting the inwardness of things, which it was Mrs Verloc’s principle to ignore, this curiosity was excusable.

  32. She was in the dark as to the inwardness of the word “Shame.

  33. Concretely, the discipline which good teachers enforce in the classroom is the natural behaviour of the spirit which adheres to itself in the seriousness and inwardness of its own work.

  34. Only on the supposition that one has religion can he enjoy freedom of religion; freedom of religion does not mean being without religion, but inwardness of faith, unmediated intercourse with God.

  35. The true inwardness of "becoming" is hidden in the mystery of the transcendental.

  36. The result is that this inwardness and soul are attributed also to the purely material world, the world of "dead" matter.

  37. This form of popular naturalism sometimes amuses itself with assuming a psychical inwardness even in non-living matter, and admitting the co-operation of psychical motives even in regard to it.

  38. Is there scope for this true inwardness of all religion, the power to comprehend itself and all the world in humility in the light of that which is not of the world, but is above world and existence?

  39. Last night when you showed me the true inwardness of this mix-up, I was sick and sorry.

  40. You see what we are up against, Bourke," he summed up when he had explained the true inwardness of the situation to the Irishman.

  41. It ought to have gone out of its way to search out the inwardness of the events.

  42. In Der güldene Griff and elsewhere Weigel works out a very interesting theory of knowledge, which fits well with the inwardness of his religious views.

  43. The true inwardness of the old wit that comes down to us in books is our knowledge of the reputation of the joker.

  44. He thought life had for him some few well-defined realities, and that she had never seemed to quite grasp the true inwardness of his best moments.


  45. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "inwardness" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.