Sentence examples for were inward from inspiring English sources
adverb
Towards the inside.
- So much the rather, thou Celestial Light, Shine inward. Milton.
In contrast, each of the nine American films that were nominated for best picture and eventually lost to "The King's Speech" from Britain were inward looking, with purely domestic concerns — a characterization that can be applied to movies as different in style and substance as "The Social Network," "Black Swan," "The Fighter" and "True Grit".
Synagogues used to be hermetically sealed; they were inward-focused and protective.
The English, after all, were inward-looking islanders; why would they be interested in the history of a world to which they did not consider they belonged?
In post-colonial Southeast Asia, ministers and diplomats mostly sprang from the Westernized elite and nobility, and for the most part they were inward-looking, determined as they were to avoid external interference and foreign entanglements.
South and Central America had splintered into 17 independent republics following the final retreat of Spanish rule in 1820, but the new Latin American states were inward-looking, their centres of population and resources isolated by mountains, jungle, and sheer distance, and disputes among them were of mostly local interest.
Her face is inward, patient, unexceptional.
The philosophy of Glass is inward looking.
Her focus is inward; there is drama here, not spectacle.
Finally, good behaviour should be inward, not outward.
They're inward looking, dyed-in-the wool".
