They conjure up the fixed smile of hospital attendants, the grave civility of doctors, the humiliating exposure of the inmost physical self, the embarrassment of watching.

But though my darling responded to my caresses with ardour, I knew that she was all the while withholding her inmost self.

While I could always see my master outside me, so my inmost self was never touched.

"Well, I don't trust that letting Jane replace Ender as my inmost self will leave anything resembling me in existence," said Val.

In her mind's eye, she knelt at the obsidian pool that was her heart, cupped the liquid, and drank deep of her inmost self.

Scheler describes the essence of philosophical thinking as "a love-determined movement of the inmost personal self of a finite being toward participation in the essential reality of all possibles."

The subjects of their inquiry need to think clearly; but because the thought is to concern their inmost selves, they are enabled to feel as fully as they did in life.

CADE 33 Slowly he headed toward his old house, his inmost self creating an ineffective shield against the world that passed before his eyes.

She can do her will perfectly well without them, and her natural spirituality enables her to keep in continual communion with her inmost self, as her magical diary shows clearly enough.

Beyond a doubt, he was true to his inmost self in ways that could make day-to-day life a burden to him.