Word: inwardness
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...telephoto lens on the firmament in the hope of catching a candid shot of God. And yet, Director Robert Bresson is a man whose errors are more interesting than the hits of most other directors. In this French film, the outward and visible symbols he finds for the inward and spiritual states of the famous (1937) Georges Bernanos novel are vivid enough to excite the intellect, though they do not always agitate the heart...
...Genesis to a black-robed Oxonian distributing bread to the poor. Wesley's adventures in the colony of Georgia, where he had a commission to instruct godless Indians, are ticked off in a snatch of dialogue, but his search for a divine revelation that would give him "the inward witness" which lies at the heart of Methodism gets serious and moving treatment...
...certain gadgets to reverse the thrust of a jet engine. The type that finally worked best for Boeing is a divided, clamshell-like contraption that normally fits snugly around the end of the tailpipe. When the airplane has touched the ground, the halves of the clamshell swing backward and inward, cutting the blast of hot gases and partially reversing its direction...
Canada-born Lawrence Earl is a good storyteller (Yangtze Incident, TIME, July 23. 1951) with a weakness for pretty prose. To Earl, a woman's waist is a "sweet, inward curve," and a hunk of driftwood can be "ductile to the heaving flood." So when Earl ran into an African crocodile-hunter named Bryan Herbert Dempster, he noted that 28-year-old Hunter Dempster had a "hard challenge in his bright, sapphire eyes [that] had come of something more peremptory than time." But Author Earl picked up a good story...
Such racial amiability, rare in the Rhodesias, was an outward and visible sign of the racial partnership that Britain hopes will one day characterize all British Africa. But it could not disguise the inward spiritual conflict that threatens Rhodesia with chronic black-white strife. Lyttelton had come to make his own reading of that conflict. Its heart is the growing fear of a white minority surrounded by black men who no longer are satisfied to be seen and not heard...