outwardness

• “A Deweyan representation of the reading experience (the experience of art in general) would balance the inwardness Birkerts evokes with an outwardness that also seeks satisfaction in the perception of form and style.”

  The Reading Experience

• “Though an ostensibly democratic space, rarely so “exclusive” that it will turn away business, the gym presents a sheltered environment, designed to produce in its visitors more inwardness than outwardness; despite your body being on display and your having to heave and sweat, both externalizing forces, the mood proper to the gym is more introvert than extrovert.”

  Simon & Schuster: BREAKFAST WITH SOCRATES

• “But our spirituality DOES deeply need openings and pauses and receptivity to flourish, this is just as "spiritual" as outwardness and activity.”

  Taking Time To Reflect

• “It marks a new outwardness on the part of the Canadian business community and a new awareness about a major potential market, especially concerning energy, technology, transportation, urban development and engineering services.”

  Communicating in the New North American Market

• “My faith begins with this man who lived 2,000 years ago and who was a man for others and whose life demonstrated a grace, demonstrated an outwardness toward others that informs the whole of our existence.”

  Oral History Interview with J. Randolph Taylor, May 23, 1985. Interview C-0021. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)

• “This has put us in the forefront of the Race's outwardness; but it has also brought us closest to the unknowns of worlds never ours.”

  A Circus of Hells

• “In families, the presence of these exotics was a godsend to the children, supplying from the abundant outwardness and demonstrativeness of their nature that aliment of sympathy so dear to childhood, which the repressed and quiet habits of New England education denied.”

  The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 16, February, 1859

• “If he writes with wide-eyed wonder at the simpler marvels of life, it is in the manner of Blake in _Songs of Innocence_, where outwardness of manner and lyrical simplicity leave an impression of something unearthly in its strangeness.”

  Personality in Literature

• “Is the picture of a friend, and as pictures flatter many times, so he oft shews fairer than the true substance: his look, conversation, company, and all the outwardness of friendship more pleasing by odds, for a true friend dare take the liberty to be sometimes offensive, whereas he is a great deal more cowardly, and will not let the least hold go, for fear of losing you.”

  Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters

• “This outwardness tended to create certain vices of character.”

  Christianity and Ethics A Handbook of Christian Ethics

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