We are witness to interior struggle and a joker, both revealed in remarkable juxtaposition.

The warrior becomes an emblem of the interior struggle of Van Gogh.

"I was engaged in a fitful interior struggle," he wrote.

Lewisham appeared involved in some interior struggle.

The Pat bit her lip; some interior struggle was going on.

Shadows passed in his eyes and his throat contracted with some interior struggle.

Then this interior struggle is made exterior by focusing on an antagonist who attacks the protagonist precisely at her weakest point.

She looked at Polgara, whose eyes burned with hatred and who seemed in the grip of an overpowering interior struggle.

Intent on the interior struggle, Oddity simply howled and flung the punk aside once more.

John had paid scant attention to Charon or the ride to Ellis, too intent on the interior struggle and the pain.