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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
inward-looking
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ an inward-looking society
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Culture can cause an inward-looking view which may lead to missed opportunities in changing external conditions.
▪ Her right elbow rests on the right arm of her chair, and her right hand cradles her small, inward-looking face.
▪ Their creation therefore, was mercifully free of prejudice and traditional, inward-looking car thinking.
▪ This need not reduce the rigour of the professional disciplines demanded, but it would make the qualifications less technical and inward-looking.

Usage examples of "inward-looking".

For all the Hams jabbered their broken English, Emma knew she could never become part of this inward-looking, deeply conservative community.

Anthrocosmology was used to justify the inward-looking stance of most polises: if the physical universe was created by human thought, it had no special status which placed it above virtual reality.