Although Ms. Bourgeois is famously focused on her inner life, several pieces here exhibit more outward concerns, like "Number Seventy-Two," her first environmental-scale endeavor.
And a club that has spent far too much time looking inwards can turn to more important outward concerns: energy security, climate change, relations with Russia, its place in the world.Although the new text is now labelled a "reform treaty", it reprises most of the institutional changes put forward in the constitutional treaty in 2004.
They should concern outward conduct, not (for instance) our thoughts and dreams, since while we can try to prove that we did not perform some action, we cannot prove that we never had some thought.
How can SF be both centrally about the articulation and exploration of marginalised and subaltern voices, and a projection of contemporary ideological concerns outward on to a cosmos in which the laws of physics themselves tell us to vote Conservative?
The epigraph of this poem, said to be by Sir Thomas Browne, is worth quoting, as it's relevant to the whole sequence: "However dreams may be fallacious concerning outward events, yet may they be truly significant at home: and consolations of discouragement may be drawn from dreams which intimately tell us ourselves".
She must also reflect critically on what she may have been taught to believe by family and friends, especially those conventions concerning outward worship and outward appearances.
Finally, it should be mentioned that Spinoza's denial that freedoms concerning outward religious expression must be protected points to the limited nature of his brand of toleration.
In the last few decades, writes a children's literature historian, Anne Scott Macleod, "the path of American adolescent novels has been from outward to inward; from concern with the young adult's relation to the larger community to a nearly exclusive emphasis on the adolescent's inner feelings".
The removal of Rogier's art from concern with outward appearances and his return to medieval conventions is surprising; for it was during this decade that Rogier's international reputation was secured and commissions increased from noblemen such as Philip the Good, duke of Burgundy, and his powerful chancellor, Nicolas Rolin.
