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Recent Examples of introversion
Chalk it up to mental health and an extremely strong inclination towards introversion.
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Steven Aquino, Forbes, 13 Jan. 2025
Often, success doesn’t require extroversion or introversion but rather an understanding of how well a specific style fits the stage of the business and its context.
—Dr. Eric George, Forbes, 22 Jan. 2025
That’s offset by an introversion, a self-reflection that feels older, wiser, and maybe a little more anxious.
—Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 9 Oct. 2024
The most successful leaders are those who can adapt their style to the needs of the moment, blending the quiet power of introversion with the dynamism of extroversion.
—Benjamin Laker, Forbes, 14 Oct. 2024
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Steven Aquino, Forbes, 13 Jan. 2025
Often, success doesn’t require extroversion or introversion but rather an understanding of how well a specific style fits the stage of the business and its context.
—Dr. Eric George, Forbes, 22 Jan. 2025
That’s offset by an introversion, a self-reflection that feels older, wiser, and maybe a little more anxious.
—Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 9 Oct. 2024
The most successful leaders are those who can adapt their style to the needs of the moment, blending the quiet power of introversion with the dynamism of extroversion.
—Benjamin Laker, Forbes, 14 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for introversion
- self-absorption
- self-analysis
- self-awareness
- introspection
- self-involvement
- self-recognition
- self-concern
- self-realization
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In the view of Georgie’s daughter, Suke Wolton, who teaches politics at Oxford, her late mother found Foster’s self-absorption a little hard to take.—
Ian Parker,
The New Yorker,
20 Jan. 2025
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But Headland’s play distinguishes itself from the others by investigating these confrontations alongside pride: How does this sin, defined by blinding self-absorption and lack of humility, distort the Dahls’ love?—
Lovia Gyarkye,
The Hollywood Reporter,
13 Dec. 2024
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Zambra’s essays and stories contain plenty of reflection and self-analysis, but the fundamental purpose of the nonfiction that dominates the book is to show readers his son, his son’s world, and the overlapping but not identical world of fatherhood.—
Lily Meyer,
The Atlantic,
23 Dec. 2024
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The sociopolitical implications of his story—desperate poverty, harassment by the police, along with exploitation by the boxing business and its high-handed authorities—are balanced by his earnest self-analyses and the detailing of his home life.—
Richard Brody,
The New Yorker,
17 Oct. 2024
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Personal growth and enhanced self-awareness are major benefits of becoming involved.—
Erik Logan,
Forbes.com,
31 Mar. 2025
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But with time and self-awareness, cultivating genuine friendships can get easier.—
Lynnette Nicholas,
Parents,
26 Mar. 2025
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And even for those who might be able to separate art from artist, the actor’s seeming lack of introspection about how violence is threaded through his film is an artistic failing.—
Hannah Giorgis,
The Atlantic,
4 Apr. 2025
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There’s not enough moral introspection to elevate the sequel beyond a page-turner, but Mary Alice, Helen, Natalie, and Billie remain good company.—
Yvonne Zipp,
Christian Science Monitor,
1 Apr. 2025
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But there’s no monopoly on self-involvement, in my experience.—
James Parker,
The Atlantic,
28 Jan. 2025
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At the far opposite end of the adulthood spectrum is Jeff (Alex Wolff), a floppy mess of romantic misadventures and extravagant self-involvement and possibly the world’s most distracted producer.—
Sheri Linden,
The Hollywood Reporter,
3 Sep. 2019
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While the specific returns for these players could be debated, and even though the thought of Marchand, Carlo and Coyle is difficult for any Bruins fan to swallow, the self-recognition by Boston will be appreciated in years to come.—
Tyler Small,
Forbes,
10 Mar. 2025
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Researchers believed that would show some semblance of self-recognition.—
Tom Rogers,
Newsweek,
21 Feb. 2025
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How much genuine pathos, and how much savvy self-concern, expediency?—
Willing Davidson,
The New Yorker,
21 July 2024
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While our hearts might be able to bleed for billions of strangers at a time, our heads are often preoccupied with more local problems, and the 21st century has exacerbated that dissonance to the point that we’re all locked in a near-constant negotiation between empathy and self-concern.—
David Ehrlich,
IndieWire,
28 June 2024
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As the story unfolds, viewers are drawn into the world of creativity and introspection, witnessing the journey towards self-realization and fulfillment of aspirations, all while navigating the intricate dynamics of the mother-daughter relationship.—
Dessi Gomez,
Deadline,
19 Mar. 2025
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Both young actors are superb, each zigzagging along that fine line between immature posturing and actual, exhilarating self-realization, evoking that transitional stage through which girls like them can often seem at least three ages at once.—
Guy Lodge,
Variety,
14 Feb. 2025
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“Introversion.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/introversion. Accessed 9 Apr. 2025.
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