introspection

In the New South Dock there was certainly no time for remorse, introspection, repentance, or any phenomena of inner life either for the captive ships or for their officers.

He thus typified the constant introspection wherewith he tortured, but could not purify himself.

He accepted the deformity which had made life so hard for him; he knew that it had warped his character, but now he saw also that by reason of it he had acquired that power of introspection which had given him so much delight.

If not the thing itself, it is marvellously like it, and the more so for that ethereal and intangible quality which causes it all to vanish at too close an introspection. Take it, therefore, while you may Murmur not,--question not,--but make the most of it!

With all his powers of introspection, he had not yet fathomed the fact that it was a fear of his own, until now utterly unsuspected, capacity for recklessness.

But a second of introspection had the alarming result of showing him that his mind, when looked at from within, was no longer familiar ground.

Do you know aught of the joys of introspection? Do reason and logic form any part of your lives?"

They deny altogether that there is a separate source of knowledge called "introspection," by which we can know things about ourselves which we could never observe in others.

He resembled his sister not in feature, but in the expression of his clear, bright eye, completely void of introspection, and in the way he smiled.

His eye gleamed unprofessionally for a moment before resuming its habitual expression of quiet introspection.

Morbid timidity and equally morbid religious introspection, aggravated by disappointments in love, prevented him as a young man from accepting a very comfortable clerkship in the House of Lords and drove him into intermittent insanity, which closed more darkly about him in his later years.

It is the privi- lege of early youth to live in advance of its days in all the beautiful continuity of hope which knows no pauses and no introspection.