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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
These contradictions inhere in every medium, of course.
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 17, 2019
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
As Dr. Johnson said, "Two contradictory ideas may inhere in the same mind, but they cannot both be correct."
From A Grammar of Freethought by Cohen, Chapman
In describing how the British philologist William Jones “discovered” Sanskrit and noticed its affinity with Greek, Taseer nudges the reader toward his main thesis: history inheres in modernity.
From The New Yorker ● Mar. 30, 2019
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
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
Fifth, the use and control of all water-power inheres of right in the States, within restrictions insuring perpetual freedom from monopoly.
From Proceedings of the Second National Conservation Congress at Saint Paul, September 5-8, 1910 by United States. National Conservation Congress
By contrast, Aristotle believed that color inhered in objects.
From Salon ● Nov. 16, 2024
She did not: she accepted her as a convention in which affection inhered through tradition alone....
From Joan Thursday by Vance, Louis Joseph
The like imaginative strain, so scorned of our petty day, inhered in all the lofty souls of that age.
From The Story of a Soul (L'Histoire d'une Âme): The Autobiography of St. Thérèse of Lisieux With Additional Writings and Sayings of St. Thérèse by Taylor, Thomas N. (Thomas Nimmo)
Qualities had independent existence as much as substances, but when any new substances were produced, the qualities rushed forward and inhered in them.
From A History of Indian Philosophy, Volume 1 by Dasgupta, Surendranath
Further indication of this inhered in the wide yawn, of which he was in mid-enjoyment, when a hand on his shoulder cut short his ecstasy.
From Average Jones by Adams, Samuel Hopkins
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
If the refuge is broken, O sire, everything inhering thereto is scattered on every side.
From The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 by Ganguli, Kisari Mohan
Action, belonging to or inhering in substances, is that which produces change, Genus belongs to substance, qualities and actions; there are higher and lower genera.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 5 "Cat" to "Celt" by Various
It was the democratic principle carried to its utmost length, and yet the notion of an inhering law was quite as strongly held.
From Noah Webster American Men of Letters by Scudder, Horace E.
This is pure English, simple, masculine; turned into poetry by a true life of expression, and by the inhering melody of the numbers.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 354, April 1845 by Various
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