Word: inwardly
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...licked, the U.S. should "disengage" from all remaining messes across the oceans. Ted Galen Carpenter advocates "strategic independence . . . free from the dangerous and expensive burdens of obsolete security commitments." Jeane J. Kirkpatrick sees a chance for the U.S. finally to become a "normal country in a normal time," turning inward to deal with its many problems at home...
...relationship to the street is a concern of John Pitkin of the Central Cambridge Neighborhood Association, who calls the Inn "an inward-looking building rather than an outward-looking building...
...last gasp attempt, I decided to turn inward. Facing a full-length mirror, I asked myself: What would I want someone to say to me if I said I was engaged...
Night Ride Home follows Mitchell's 1988 Chalk Mark in a Rain Storm and comes on the heels, or paws, of her 1985 Dog Eat Dog, an intensely inward effort full of dank social speculation whose lack of wide acceptance is still a bit irksome to the singer-composer. "It was mistimed," she speculates. "It was viewed as negative and preacherly at the time of its release. It was an angry album." Mitchell seems heartened by the warm, early interest accorded the new record, and a little suspicious, as if she has produced something so attractive that it must...
...week seemed to be enacting a travesty of the Arab motif of veiling and concealment. In the Arab world, women often veil themselves not because they are punished or shamed but because women, who produce life, must be protected, as a plant in the desert might be. Houses turn inward, the living quarters hidden. The true treasures are concealed. Saddam similarly appeared -- or wished to appear -- to be masking his strength, hiding it in bunkers in the sand...