Her father had said the epic was a thing of the past, that in the future none would be written, for that it was a form of expressions that belonged to the world's youth, and that age brought philosophy and introspection, but not epics.
"The Eye of Dread"
Payne Erskine
The word introspection meant nothing to him whatever, there were in life certain direct sharp motives and on these he acted.
"Fortitude"
Hugh Walpole
If you are given to introspection and worry, and allow these things to go unchecked, they become habits with you, and while your sleep, in a measure, is an antidote for worry, yet the more worry you have the less soundly you will sleep, and consequently the less effective sleep will be in correcting the injury caused by worry.
"Dollars and Sense"
Col. Wm. C. Hunter