In essays, as in life, you can't buy introspection, depth or open-mindedness just by taking a trip to China.
Intellect/imagination represents a drive for cognitive engagement of inner mental experience and encompasses a wide range of related (but partially separate) traits, including intellectual engagement, intellectual curiosity, intellectual depth, ingenuity, reflection, introspection, imagination, emotional richness, artistic engagement, and aesthetic interests.
Here Catherine, who has largely remained a caricature of a Western dilettante, acquires personality and depth, and Samar's moody introspection takes on a new precision, at times reaching toward the ruminative insightfulness of V. S. Naipaul, an author Mishra has obviously read carefully.
Novels, when done well, are about life, and introspection upon the depths of human experience.
When we try to peek into the murky depths of our unconscious through introspection, instead of accessing the desired body of knowledge, we often end up making up information that is drawn from previous beliefs and expectations, like a child seeing faces in the wall.
The book lacks introspection, critical judgment or depth.
At times, Ora's level of self-consciousness, her alertness to the emotional contours of things, her exquisite introspection, give this story the depth and privacy of an Ingmar Bergman film, especially "Scenes From a Marriage".
His perspective is symbolised neatly in the artwork for his second album – a hand delving into the unknown depths of a rectangular prism – suggesting an introspection that goes beyond Chromatics' surface theme of relationships.
The musicians played the magisterial slow movement (which expresses Beethoven's gratitude for his recovery from an illness) with poised introspection and delved into the agitated depths of the concluding Allegro appassionato with vigor.
They were very different artists, but they both knew all about a jazz guitar tradition reaching back seven decades or more, and the depth of that understanding was always audible – despite the frequent introspection of Hall's work, or the radio-friendly pop-orientation of Jordan's.
