How to Use interiority in a Sentence

interiority

noun
  • This is the argument at the heart of The Mind of a Bee, a thorough and thoughtful primer on the interiority of bees.
    Amy Brady, Scientific American, 16 June 2022
  • That interiority, the inner narratives of Black girls and Black women is the spinal cord, the heart, the rib cage of my work.
    Kaitlyn Greenidge, Harper's BAZAAR, 24 Aug. 2023
  • Her interiority was the key to the show, felt in those endless close-ups of Moss’s face, and in her narration.
    Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 25 Apr. 2018
  • Her response cracks the interiority of the scene wide open.
    David L. Ulin, Harper's Magazine, 24 Nov. 2020
  • Murrell forced us to think about the interiority of the Black models.
    Hilton Als, The New Yorker, 4 Mar. 2024
  • In Zellweger’s hands, Pam at least has a scheming interiority, wheels that are spinning in ways that the show unveils at a glacial pace.
    Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Mar. 2022
  • But the Girl’s house-music interiority reengineered for a moonlit rave on the moors.
    Jon Dolan, Rolling Stone, 10 May 2022
  • What about her directing style enabled you to bring Hae Sung’s interiority out in the open?
    Tyler Coates, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 Dec. 2023
  • Taylor’s prose brims with interiority, and is dark and tender, like a bruise.
    The New Yorker, 24 Feb. 2020
  • The music works like interiority, translating the muddled speech of Chekhov’s play into the persistent feeling that is at the core of the work.
    Josephine Livingstone, The New Republic, 24 Apr. 2018
  • Perhaps had a few fleeting pages of Doris’ perspective not cropped up about a third of the way through the book, her agency and interiority would not be so sorely missed.
    Leslie Pariseau, Los Angeles Times, 16 Apr. 2020
  • Expressionistic light and sound take up the slack and give the play the fearful interiority and propulsion of a nightmare.
    New York Times, 28 Feb. 2021
  • The film captures the wild beauty of the landscape and also the emotional interiority of its subjects.
    The New Yorker, 6 Dec. 2023
  • That part is less of a comedy and more about interiority.
    Carlos Aguilar, Los Angeles Times, 21 July 2021
  • Brian Eno, and Ralphie Choo achieved the same kind of interiority with lots of space and ambient palettes.
    Rolling Stone, 28 Dec. 2023
  • Richard gives the exterior, which is why there's the family and friends and musicians who knew him [and] are included in the film to give you a greater sense of his interiority.
    Lester Fabian Brathwaite, EW.com, 21 Apr. 2023
  • This lesson explains the deep interiority of The Nickel Boys.
    Josephine Livingstone, The New Republic, 30 July 2019
  • McCraney, who wrote the screenplay on which Barry Jenkins’s 2016 film Moonlight was based, is no stranger to producing work that explores the interiority of black boys.
    Hannah Giorgis, The Atlantic, 22 Aug. 2019
  • The Handmaid’s Tale, once a window into the interiority of a woman whose mind was her only release, has long since lost its potency.
    Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 22 July 2019
  • Blessings upon Reeves, Pattinson, and Kravitz for bringing all that interiority, heart, and thirst back to Gotham.
    Vulture, 14 Mar. 2022
  • And in fact, it's seen as transgressive when men are writing about interiority and the domestic and emotional realms.
    ELLE, 15 Mar. 2022
  • Then, as Isa takes the reader into her interiority, the dizzy and disturbed feeling that women are all too familiar with settles in.
    Kate Mabus, USA TODAY, 6 Sep. 2021
  • Easier for Disney to elide the mother, to disappear her, than to introduce her to the narrative and be forced to reckon with the interiority of the child, let alone a grieving husband.
    Jeanna Kadlec, Longreads, 8 Oct. 2020
  • The 1929 temple is grand and dramatic but also closed off from the world, a place for interiority and collective reflection.
    Washington Post, 25 Feb. 2022
  • Whereas that work explored the interiority of Black people who have had to protest that their lives matter, Just Us examines the attitudes of white people who take it for granted that their lives do.
    Kierstan Carter, The New Republic, 6 Oct. 2020
  • Large claims about the interiority of human beings from a different time are not so easily proven.
    Josephine Livingstone, The New Republic, 27 Apr. 2018
  • Oliver similarly does her best to imbue Frances with some interiority, but can’t make up for the script’s overall inability to do the same.
    Caroline Framke, Variety, 13 May 2022
  • And yet, the film's stubborn interiority, its sense of a soul, is mesmerizing, and Pitt is tremendously moving while giving one of the best performances of his career.
    Isaac Feldberg, Fortune, 20 Sep. 2019
  • At times, Robinson’s book invests more in exhaustive detail than in a sense of interiority.
    Hua Hsu, The New Yorker, 23 Oct. 2023
  • Generally these artists write about how inner lives crash into a social world full of characters who also have interiority.
    Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 5 Feb. 2024

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