Thoughts spill out in haste, but against them we hear a muted waltz in the piano part, slowed and darkened by the mind's inward turn.

The inward turn by which Descartes identified truth with human self-consciousness had significant implications for all later thought and culture.

Much of the dinner talk was about the importance Russia attaches to American economic aid, and the concerns in Moscow over America's inward turn.

And why should his normally wide-eyed, candid gaze turn dubiously inward, looking back, very wearily, on something imperfectly understood and infinitely disquieting?

The first decades after the Liberation were marked by a considerable inward turn.

Accordingly, an inward (en dedans) turn is the turn in the direction towards the support leg.

As the sound of a flute rises, three women enter, flutter and orbit with little steps or flex a foot as they swing a leg into an inward turn.

As he watched the heat-covered landscape unfold, his thoughts took an inward turn, dwelt briefly on the dream that still preoccupied him.

But there is an even bigger change than this inward turn, which Mr. Birmelin attributes in part to the health problems he faced a few years ago.

After an inward turn that brought them facing forward again, he said, "Well, that's our mile for today - we're going to have to leave Captain Wilson to march on alone."