Like quite a few of the legendary bosses of American politics, he was essentially a dour, inward-looking man, no natural practitioner of "Last Hurrah conviviality.
This list includes: alternate side parking, cleaning the cat box, Facebook, overhearing Natalie Merchant's music, inward-swinging men's room doors, traffic, vacuuming, and worrying about going to prison.
Mr. Cage turns all his intensity inward, playing a man who can be a little self-conscious about his own reticence.
In the interview, Bush told his daughter that painting had opened his mind, but perhaps it is too much to think that it would have turned the outward-looking, goal-driven man inward.
King James, to his credit, saw things differently, noting that tobacco made "a kitchin of the inward parts of man, soiling and infecting them with an unctious and oily kinde of soote".
This means that women tend to be more inward looking, and men more initiative focused.
The result of this view is the notion that God is merely the outward projection of man's inward nature.
To have strangers going through his factory must have seemed, for such an inward and self-created man, as if invaders were rummaging around in his brain.
But the man's inward gaze palpably contemplates not a self but a myth, as if Lincoln himself were transfixed, as we are, by the mystery of Lincoln.
The voice he perfected on the page sounded so enviably and entirely New York—"sophisticated," "urbane," and even "suave" (to use three words he avoided)—that it was a surprise to discover, in life, a man more inward and recessive, with a shy, refined diffidence.
