It is also a neatly made, long-seeming piece d'occasion that lacks any sense of inner necessity.

It reflected what would become known as the "inner necessity" of his work.

Ms. Johnson may not be innocent of art, but she seems obsessed enough with her own "inner necessity" to succeed as an outsider.

Her paintings were talismans of mystical devotion, derived from inner necessity.

I can only be here and continue from inner necessity.

Cultural and civil assimilation was accomplished as an inner compelling necessity, as a natural outcome of living.

Growth of another kind, however, is inner necessity.

God created the world free from exterior compulsion and inner necessity.

Everybody acts not only under external compulsion but also in accordance with inner necessity.

What it succeeds in conveying is the difference between art inspired by nature and that prompted by inner necessity.