Adjective
inward-looking (comparative more inward-looking, superlative most inward-looking)
concerned primarily with one's own objectives, priorities, etc.; insular
Obama's NASA budget perfectly captures the difference between Kennedy's liberalism and Obama's. Kennedy's was an expansive, bold, outward-looking summons, Obama's is a constricted inward-looking call to retreat. Fifty years ago, Kennedy opened the New Frontier. Obama has just shut it. Charles Krauthammer
A particular thought is not the same as a concentrated, creative thought, which is actually a feeling of inward-looking calm. The former produces a descriptive and morpho-plastic art, the latter a purely plastic manifestation. It is a question of the universal versus the individual. Piet Mondrian
“Amidst a risk of inward-looking temptations in the face of the slump of the global economy, making rules for a free and fair global economy is critically important,” Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga said Sunday. Source: Internet
BEIJING — President Xi Jinping of China delivered a sweeping vision of a new economic global order on Sunday, positioning his country as an alternative to an inward-looking United States under President Trump. Source: Internet
But, like it or not, it is rapidly resembling TV: linear, passive, programmed and inward-looking. Source: Internet
But Gandhi’s swadeshi was not really inward-looking; it was more about promoting the idea of self-sufficiency and independence, less about just keeping imported goods out. Source: Internet