the seat of one's deepest thoughts and emotions
an intensely private individual, he treats his inner space as sacred ground that is off-limits to other people
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Recent Examples of inner spaceThe second is inner space—the realm of thoughts, memories, and emotions.—Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, Time, 10 Jan. 2026 Just as Italian Neorealism and Brazilian Cinema Novo once did, through his cinema, Walter’s inner space opens its doors horizontally, without agendas or hierarchies, so that all human emotion can converse within this personal yet collective space.—Alejandro González Iñárritu, Deadline, 15 Oct. 2025 Its inner space is dense with filaments of tubulin and actin, another protein that plays a similar skeletal role.—Veronique Greenwood, Quanta Magazine, 8 Sep. 2025 But revolving doors are necessary only when walls stand between the inner space and the outside world.—Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 6 Mar. 2025 The results will find favor with folk music fans, modern guitar rebels, and inner space explorers alike.—Joe Gross, Rolling Stone, 26 Feb. 2025 Sitting in meditation, lost in ecstatic dance, or fasting and praying for days, these explorers of inner space received profound insights into our nature and our relationship to the rest of reality.—Big Think, 13 Dec. 2024 Said more simply, outer space is boring, slow, simple, weak, risky, and poor by comparison to our ever-accelerating inner space frontier.—Matthew S Williams, Interesting Engineering, 8 Oct. 2024
The crunchy Larkin Poe album embodies the musical slipperiness of Americana as an ideal, a carefree cruise through country, blues, rock, and soul; the Molly Tuttle album brims with the rustic zest of early Sheryl Crow.
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Craig Jenkins,
Vulture,
30 Jan. 2026
Produced by Yohan Usuga, this collective performance captures the soul of the genre and amplifies the song’s emotional resonance.
The brainchild of Chris Roberts, the mind behind Wing Commander and Freelancer, Star Citizen is probably the most ambitious ongoing project in video games, having raised nearly one billion dollars in funding as of this writing.
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Alan Bradley,
Space.com,
31 Jan. 2026
But for the mother-daughter pair, their minds were on Minneapolis and how federal agents have handled immigration enforcement.