But many of Blink's best songs endure because they turn inward: the lovelorn boy has sense enough to wonder what's wrong with him.
Those hot, tiny bursts!—and it rewards the sentimental, the thoughtful, the curious; less so the factyness and downward, inward boastyness of boys.
The once a curious, playful boy has turned inward and unmotivated.
He's not standard-issue cute, in terms of his appearance or his behavior like a regular adolescent boy, he's blankish and inward, so it's believable when his character says and thinks both smart and dumb things.
He's not standard-issue cute, in terms of his appearance or his behavior — like a regular adolescent boy, he's blankish and inward, so it's believable when his character says and thinks both smart and dumb things.
Anxious and eager, Alice hovered about her mother's house, still helping with the boys, listening with an inward drooping to endless tales of their exploits.
The bottom of the doors came off their track and swung inward, a police official said, and the boy fell into the shaft, hitting an elevator at the second floor, then falling to the basement.
"City Boy" looks outward as much as inward; there's nearly as much about Mr. White's famous friends as there is about his own life.
Never pick a boy who doesn't notice your inward beauty first.
The boy's journeys through space represent inward-thinking and imagination, planets represent fears and the inhabitants personify McMillen's childhood "inner demons".
