Sentence examples for modern inward from inspiring English sources

Such a paradoxical interplay between introspective self-reflexivity and instrumental objectification of the self and mastery of the world constitutes the modern "inward turn" as Charles Taylor calls it [Taylor 1989].

Ironically, for Weber, modern inward subjectivity was born once we lost any inherent value qua humans and became thoroughly objectified vis-à-vis God in the course of the Reformation.

In this view, Hamlet is a creature of endless vacillation, a cipher for the alienated, inward modern self in a world that is insubstantial and rotten: "Denmark's a prison," Hamlet sighs.

Although he's steeped in the classical language of his training, he has experimented with modern techniques, from the inward focus of contact improvisation to the off-centred articulation of the Merce Cunningham style.

He shares with Ovid an interest in mythical figures, creating one of his own in his most famous book, "Crow", in which a semi-demonic bird flaps into the world to mess about with God's creation.Above all, Mr Hughes shares with Ovid a narrative drive which makes "Tales from Ovid" much more accessible than most modern verse, which is inward-looking.

The unique circumstances require that for the first time in modern history policy formulation should proceed not from partisan and ideological extremes "inward," but from the political middle outward.

As a result, in the modern age, their first instinct is to look inward, assess their weaknesses, try to learn as much as they can from foreigners and then beat them at their own game.

In the modern age, they say, we have begun to turn inward, bowl alone, shirk our public duties.

They should turn inward, toward a kind of modern monasticism.

Modern society is full of "pin factories" — inward looking agencies and organizations that operate in silos and bounce people back and forth like pinballs.

Like modern metafictions, Sloan's pop-rock songs twist inward on themselves.