How to Use interiority in a Sentence

interiority

noun
  • There isn’t even a solo song for her, which might have given us a sense of her interiority.
    — Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Dec. 2024
  • And what better place to think about the ways in which interiority shifts over time than within a former bank?
    — Kristen Tauer, Footwear News, 1 Mar. 2026
  • Taylor’s prose brims with interiority, and is dark and tender, like a bruise.
    — The New Yorker, 24 Feb. 2020
  • Murrell forced us to think about the interiority of the Black models.
    — Hilton Als, The New Yorker, 4 Mar. 2024
  • Steve seems to be going through a quiet moment of interiority there.
    — Devon Ivie, Vulture, 16 Jan. 2026
  • Her interiority was the key to the show, felt in those endless close-ups of Moss’s face, and in her narration.
    — Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 25 Apr. 2018
  • Kit is so compelling to read; her interiority is funny, sad, honest.
    — Ilana Masad, Them, 25 Nov. 2024
  • But the Girl’s house-music interiority reengineered for a moonlit rave on the moors.
    — Jon Dolan, Rolling Stone, 10 May 2022
  • Not even Sean gets any interiority; his feelings and motives remain a mystery to the end.
    — Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 Mar. 2025
  • What aspects of female interiority are you intrigued by as a writer?
    — Carolina A. Miranda, Los Angeles Times, 29 Mar. 2023
  • But this gesture is rarely more than a feint, as the series never probes Haddix’s interiority.
    — Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 11 Sep. 2024
  • What about her directing style enabled you to bring Hae Sung’s interiority out in the open?
    — Tyler Coates, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 Dec. 2023
  • Large claims about the interiority of human beings from a different time are not so easily proven.
    — Josephine Livingstone, The New Republic, 27 Apr. 2018
  • Harry is a man of few words, so the performance hinges on his physical control and interiority.
    — Beandrea July, IndieWire, 28 Jan. 2026
  • Expressionistic light and sound take up the slack and give the play the fearful interiority and propulsion of a nightmare.
    — New York Times, 28 Feb. 2021
  • She is suspended in a field of turquoise paint, her skin tone a pewter-gray grisaille, which removes her from our realm and gives her an almost alien interiority and agency.
    — Jerry Saltz, Vulture, 7 Apr. 2025
  • That interiority, the inner narratives of Black girls and Black women is the spinal cord, the heart, the rib cage of my work.
    — Kaitlyn Greenidge, Harper's BAZAAR, 24 Aug. 2023
  • Gala, meanwhile, is a funny, charming writer who prefers books that don’t resist interiority.
    — Lily Meyer, The Atlantic, 31 Oct. 2025
  • And in fact, it's seen as transgressive when men are writing about interiority and the domestic and emotional realms.
    — ELLE, 15 Mar. 2022
  • The film captures the wild beauty of the landscape and also the emotional interiority of its subjects.
    — The New Yorker, 6 Dec. 2023
  • In Zellweger’s hands, Pam at least has a scheming interiority, wheels that are spinning in ways that the show unveils at a glacial pace.
    — Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Mar. 2022
  • At times, Robinson’s book invests more in exhaustive detail than in a sense of interiority.
    — Hua Hsu, The New Yorker, 23 Oct. 2023
  • That value, however, is not to be found in his nonexistent interiority.
    — Gary Greenberg, New Yorker, 27 Sep. 2025
  • This is the argument at the heart of The Mind of a Bee, a thorough and thoughtful primer on the interiority of bees.
    — Amy Brady, Scientific American, 16 June 2022
  • The narrow compass of his interiority summons a narrow prose.
    — Literary Hub, 8 Jan. 2026
  • Perhaps had a few fleeting pages of Doris’ perspective not cropped up about a third of the way through the book, her agency and interiority would not be so sorely missed.
    — Leslie Pariseau, Los Angeles Times, 16 Apr. 2020
  • Rest assured that the subjects at the heart of this film are granted — and invited to demonstrate — a degree of interiority that was missing from the catty pope movie.
    — Ritesh Mehta, IndieWire, 10 Mar. 2025
  • In doing so, the artist grants his subjects newfound interiority, as viewers are invited to convene and gather rather than simply stare.
    — Los Angeles Times, 9 Jan. 2026
  • In a third-person novel interiority is available, but it’s still framed externally.
    — Literary Hub, 25 June 2026
  • Then, as Isa takes the reader into her interiority, the dizzy and disturbed feeling that women are all too familiar with settles in.
    — Kate Mabus, USA TODAY, 6 Sep. 2021

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