Sentence examples for an inner state from inspiring English sources

For me, it was more about representing an inner state of mind.

All are efforts to give form to something intangible, to film an inner state.

This, at least, seems to be implicit in the core meaning of "expression": the outer manifestation of an inner state.

Munch's screamer — set in a swirling landscape, elongated hands holding a face distended in horror — is not so much a portrait as an embodiment of an inner state.

Too often, Helen's passages read less like renderings of an inner state than notes on one: "She realized that the bitter resentment against her mother which had clouded her life had not faded".

Once you apply for a British passport, you face a harsh consequence: losing Chinese identity to gain the western brand of freedom and embracing an inner state of exile.

Munch, in a work composed of both warm and cool shades of pastel, visualizes a crippling inner state of despair, anxiety, and dread -- an utterly Norwegian panic attack.

Even the Stoics, who notoriously regard all but a virtuous inner state as at best indifferent, would still assign happiness a kind of importance: at the very least, to be unhappy would be unvirtuous; and virtue itself arguably entails a kind of happiness, namely a pleasant state of tranquility.

My socks don't match this ensemble, but I swear this does not betray a chaotic inner state; it's because I have not had had time to do the laundry.

Secularism, for me, is a perpetual inner state of mind and spirit that remains unaffected by external circumstances.

Emotional vocalizations are quite similar across different species, and may carry the same information about an animal's inner state as about a human's.