However, they are young people of the
introspective modern type, with a new theory for everything.
We were, in truth, nearly always together, and being of an
introspective turn of mind I often endeavored to analyze and define the novel feeling with which she inspired me--a secret, subtle, but powerful attraction which constantly impelled me to seek her; but the attempt was hopeless.
`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.
His face had fallen into graver lines, his eyes seemed fixed with a curious
introspective steadiness on a huge calendar which hung from the wall.
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.
But when we approach psychology from a more
introspective standpoint, we have to distinguish sensations and perceptions, if possible, from other mental occurrences, if any.
He was never
introspective. He was simply the most tremendous response to stimuli I have ever known.
Slowly the sparkle point of consciousness and identity that was John Tarwater sank, deeper and deeper, into the profounds of his being that had been compounded ere man was man, and while he was becoming man, when he, first of all animals, regarded himself with an
introspective eye and laid the beginnings of morality in foundations of nightmare peopled by the monsters of his own ethic- thwarted desires.
This, like "The Wanderer", is one of the many
introspective passages in the work, and is full of innuendos and hints as to the Nietzschean outlook on life.
His eyes, which were of a peculiarly light, watery gray, seemed to always retain that far-away,
introspective look which I had only observed in Sherlock's when he was exerting his full powers.
'Here!' or 'Hi!' But, in his heart, when he meets that, cold, blue,
introspective eye, he quakes.
Hamlet was what you might call too
introspective for Mr.