the seat of one's deepest thoughts and emotions
an intensely private individual, he treats his inner space as sacred ground that is off-limits to other people
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Recent Examples of inner spaceEven the deep grief and despair over the death of a loved one brings a visceral connection to some mysterious inner space.—Marsha Sutton, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Mar. 2025 But revolving doors are necessary only when walls stand between the inner space and the outside world.—Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 6 Mar. 2025 The results will find favor with folk music fans, modern guitar rebels, and inner space explorers alike.—Joe Gross, Rolling Stone, 26 Feb. 2025 The group’s meditative soundscapes, a series of exploratory journeys into inner space, showcase Ms. Aftab’s plaintive vocals in Urdu.—Stephen Humphries, The Christian Science Monitor, 30 Mar. 2023 The Quantum Realm turns out to be nothing more than inner space, the very small counterpart of a galaxy far, far away.—Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 15 Feb. 2023 Through snowy stargazing, flirting with guys on dating apps, taking ketamine (or not), and watching YouTube lecture videos, outer and inner space collapse – to draw a warped cartography of desire and distance.—Peter Debruge, Variety, 13 Dec. 2022 Gravity rules outer space, shaping galaxies and indeed the whole universe, whereas quantum mechanics rules inner space, the arena of atoms and elementary particles.—Dennis Overbye, New York Times, 10 Oct. 2022 Here's his vision to protect inner space from orbital debris.—Katie Hunt, CNN, 10 Sep. 2022
Mainly because soul tie enthusiasts don’t do a good job delineating the difference between godly and ungodly connections.
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Dominique Fluker,
Essence,
27 Mar. 2025
This funny, strange and fundamentally forlorn film about the city’s gentrification provided a breakout role for Jonathan Majors as a lost artistic soul.
With tech in one hand and heart in the other, Riri is forced to navigate a new kind of battle—one that challenges her intellect, her upbringing, and her purpose.
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Okla Jones,
Essence,
30 Mar. 2025
But against a champion like Djokovic, heart and head were not enough.
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