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That sense of collegial openness and outwardness pervades the entire production, all the more remarkable when you consider the talent quotient and award-studded résumés of the supporting cast.

From New York Times • Oct. 25, 2016

There, despite the apparent outwardness of his vehemence, Picasso was almost crazily hermetic.

From Time Magazine Archive

There is another form of outwardness to which the Negro church is tending at oneself and valuing oneself from appearance.

From The Defects of the Negro Church The American Negro Academy. Occasional Papers No. 10 by Faduma, Orishatukeh

Did she not know her own menfolk: fresh, slow, full-built men, masterful enough, but easy, native to the earth, lacking outwardness and range of motion.

From The Rainbow by Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert)

There is an outwardness and an inwardness of nature, corresponding to the knower's body on the one hand, and his feeling or will on the other.

From The Approach to Philosophy by Perry, Ralph Barton