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Recent Examples of inner lightHere are horses being led by riders searching the forest for an inner light.—John Kinsella, The New Yorker, 11 Dec. 2023 In this moment, black seems to evoke fear, hurt and pain while the creature’s inner light — which is more white — leans into more positive color stereotypes.—Abbey White, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 July 2023 Some perceive rolling waves, drifting clouds or inner light.—Robin Soslow, Chron, 2 Apr. 2023 Michelle Obama finds the inner light, global influence of life beyond the White House.—Julius Lasin, USA TODAY, 29 Mar. 2023 See All Example Sentences for inner light
Most blind people can discern between light and dark.
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Anna Giorgi,
Verywell Health,
6 June 2025
The graphic aesthetic seems particularly noticeable in effects such as explosions or fires, and in the way shadow and light interact with the characters.
Garrett, Allegany and Washington counties are now symbols of neglect, where economic despair has replaced the industrious and seemingly indomitable spirit that had once defined them.
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Daniel A.C. McBride,
Baltimore Sun,
1 June 2025
As actual spirits, released from their corporeal form, or visions conjured up by the eyes or minds of those who see them—or something else?
One such soul was Madeline Buol (1902–1986), a devout Catholic and beauty shop owner living in Dubuque, IA, right across the Mississippi River from Dickeyville.
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Chadd Scott,
Forbes.com,
7 June 2025
Antonia Gentry as Ginny Miller Ginny is an artful soul who has internalized the chaos of her upbringing as the child of a loving, but lawless mother.
And for better or worse, practitioners have always stood at the ready, prepared to intervene when our chakras seemed blocked; when our humors seemed unbalanced; when our meridians surely became constricted; when our orgone levels were all out of whack.
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Ashley Fetters Maloy,
Washington Post,
10 July 2023
And then there was orgone, discovered, or imagined, by Wilhelm Reich, the Austrian psychoanalyst and fallen Freudian.
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