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Despite the difficulties that inhere in Holocaust memoir — we believe we know this history, and its subject matter defies language — “Mala’s Cat” is fresh, unsentimental and utterly unpredictable.
From New York Times ● Jan. 12, 2022
Still, for all its pain, the movie is about the virtue and the quality that inhere in success.
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 5, 2018
The genius doesn't inhere in Lee's screenplay but in the total package.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 22, 2018
“Tragedy and good and evil often inhere in the same situation,” he said in response to the outcry in January.
From Time ● Sep. 23, 2015
There is," says Emanuel Deutsch, "a peculiar something supposed to inhere in epilepsy.
From Religion & Sex Studies in the Pathology of Religious Development by Cohen, Chapman
No matter how ordinary or powerless the character, to each unfortunate soul yet inheres a magnificent, perhaps infinite, capacity for suffering.
From New York Times ● Mar. 29, 2019
Inside, where the mind makes comparisons and analogies, the dissociation inheres in malfunctioning metaphors: what is a “symposium / of endangered stars” and how would it evict itself?
From The New Yorker ● May 8, 2017
Methodologically speaking, though, the gap between these two more basic strategies may speak to a fundamental paradox that inheres in archival projects more generally.
From Slate ● Feb. 22, 2017
The richness of Shakespeare’s unique comic vision inheres in such intelligent lyricism.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 22, 2016
I defy you to lay your hand on his innocent head and question his legitimacy, which inheres only in a ceremony no civil law sanctioned.
From A Speckled Bird by Wilson, Augusta J. Evans
By contrast, Aristotle believed that color inhered in objects.
From Salon ● Nov. 16, 2024
How much more of this sacred character inhered in the heroes who created nationwide railroad systems, vast steelmaking consolidations, monopolies of oil and coal!
From Behind the Mirrors The Psychology of Disintegration at Washington by Gilbert, Clinton W. (Clinton Wallace)
In this speech an accent of irony inhered to exasperate P. Sybarite.
From The Day of Days An Extravaganza by Brown, Arthur William
To his mind a most delectable flavour of discreet scandal inhered in such collections of shabby properties from anonymous homes.
From Red Masquerade by Vance, Louis Joseph
Strange, that in a nation in which was born and in which has inhered all the indomitableness of individualism should be so long unable to understand the secret of personal liberty!
From History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II by Stanton, Elizabeth Cady
The very question is an assertion that mindfulness is an attribute of God, as well as of man, a statement of the sense of deep meaning inhering in mindfulness.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 4, 2010
The deviations and departures characterizing an individual are still looked upon with suspicion; in principle they are evidences of the disturbances, revolts, and corruptions inhering in an individual apart from external authoritative guidance.
From Democracy and Education: an introduction to the philosophy of education by Dewey, John
Space and time are neither substantial receptacles which contain all that is real nor orders inhering in things in themselves, but forms of intuition.
From History of Modern Philosophy From Nicolas of Cusa to the Present Time by Falckenberg, Richard
But there are other powers or forms inhering in matter prior to the material intellect.
From A History of Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy by Husik, Isaac
But value is not a property inhering in any article itself.
From Money: Speech of Hon. John P. Jones, of Nevada, On the Free Coinage of Silver; in the United States Senate, May 12 and 13, 1890 by Jones, John P. (John Percival)
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