Word: inwardness
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...surround Ella and Franco. They suffer diphtheria, syphilis, scalding, torture, drowning, stabbing, smallpox, gunfire and, in a couple of instances, grisly botched amputations. None of that bothers Ella and Franco much. They are like cruel children: dreamy, whimsical, pleasure loving, utterly lacking in remorse or the kind of inward reflection one hopes for from characters in novels. In one scene Franco viciously whips a dog because it resembles a dog that bit him when he was little. "Franco knew perfectly well that this dog was not the same dog that had bitten him, but he did not care...
...themselves when they feel humiliated and unprotected by the state," Sarkozy says. "The kids on the banlieue will stop turning inward in anger when they look up and see that they, too, can be a judge, journalist, prefect or politician." Sarkozy has championed other controversial proposals. In 2003 he supported the creation of the French Council of the Muslim Religion, France's first official body representing the country's estimated 6 million Muslims; he broke a national taboo by calling for positive discrimination to "jump-start an integration model that has broken down"; and he opposed the controversial law banning...
...hopeful partygoers stirred up a commotion outside the House. There were more people outside trying to get in than there were inside at the party, Winthrop says. When Sobil stood in the doorway to block the inward flow, partiers began mounting the House walls and entering through the windows...
...history of race and racism is of course an international one, containing dimensions that are, more often than not, difficult to account for within a single narrative. And yet a shortcoming of the American academy has been the persistence of American exceptionalism and the often inward focus of multiculturalism, an emphasis on difference rather than connection. These themes have only recently begun to be complicated through models of comparative history, diaspora and inter-group solidarity...
...Alcalay, a professor emeritus in Visual and Environmental Studies (VES), art is an expression of the self or the results of inward exploration. It is therefore fitting that the new biographical documentary of Alcalay by three VES alumni be entitled Albert Alcalay: Self-Portraits. Alcalay himself, who would call all of art a self-portrait, could not have summed it up better...