The word "inward" is correct and usable in written English.
It is an adverb that means "toward the inside; internally; inside oneself." You can use it in sentences like this: The introverted woman kept her emotions inward.
A complete picture of the last few months of his life is difficult to assemble: even his closest family members describe him as "inward", consumed with "private things".
And the UK's new high-end TV drama tax credit has attracted a lot of US producers to actually shoot here: BFI figures show that, in its first year of operation, the tax credit attracted £225m of inward investment.
George Osborne's sunny economic forecast and much of his claim that Britain is a "comeback country" have more to do with higher than expected levels of net inward migration than his stewardship as chancellor or the falling oil price.
On top of this, the latest labour market survey figures show that the latest rise in net inward migration does not appear to have led to widespread displacement of existing workers.
"We face no concrete walls … sometimes there can be a sense that the great challenges have somehow passed and that brings with it a temptation to turn inward".
Nor is it that objects of perception are intrusive in an electric way as they are under mescalin or lysergic acid… It is that the perceiving turns inward, the eyelids droop, the blood is aware of itself".
"We support the establishment of an independent Wales in order to join the international community, not to somehow retreat into an inward-looking isolationism," she said.
But it has also always been a very inward-looking place, content not to challenge Paris too directly, either in art or politics.
In the immediate aftermath of the 2008 global financial crisis, policymakers' success in preventing the Great Recession from turning into Great Depression II held in check demands for protectionist and inward-looking measures.
One effect of the financial crisis has been to make European countries more inward-looking: everyone is dealing with their own problems (and debts) as best as they can, and attention only shifts elsewhere in the EU when a nation might default altogether, as with Greece and now Ireland.
The trouble with this approach is that the resultant work is inward-looking, mining art itself for subject matter.
