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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
But they, too, are qualities; and, as in the other case, perceiving qualities, we infer a substance in which they inhere.
From Orthodoxy: Its Truths And Errors by James Freeman Clarke
And yet tonight was a dramatic show of the actual power that inheres in the president himself; it’s a power that’s partly real and immutable, and partly, in this president’s hands, a bit.
From Slate ● Aug. 26, 2020
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
The richness of Shakespeare’s unique comic vision inheres in such intelligent lyricism.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 22, 2016
Praise here means the essential praise, which naturally inheres in excellence, and not the being talked about by men.
From Minor Poems by Milton by John Milton
By contrast, Aristotle believed that color inhered in objects.
From Salon ● Nov. 16, 2024
In this speech an accent of irony inhered to exasperate P. Sybarite.
From The Day of Days An Extravaganza by Arthur William Brown
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 Samuel Hopkins Adams
As part of this view, he felt that "simples" should be more carefully studied, because medicinal virtues inhered in single substances and that complicated combinations were unnecessary.
From Medical Investigation in Seventeenth Century England Papers Read at a Clark Library Seminar, October 14, 1967 by Charles W. Bodemer
No shadow fell in that region, for clearness inhered there so thoroughly that it seemed the real essence of Siva’s dominions.
From Life and Death And Other Legends and Stories by Henryk Sienkiewicz
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
He rather conceived of the vowels as inhering in the consonants—as modifications in the utterance of the consonants, which the reader could make for himself.
From Companion to the Bible by E. P. (Elijah Porter) Barrows
The right inhering in the party of the first part imposes a duty on the party of the second part.
From Wyandot Government: A Short Study of Tribal Society Bureau of American Ethnology by John Wesley Powell
Then, in forgetfulness of the fact that all these things are pure abstractions, it has been tacitly assumed that there is a force inhering in the word, the rite, the rule, which produces its evolution.
From Introduction to the Study of History by George Godfrey Berry
The supreme consideration is that the money of a country shall be so regulated as that prices may not fall from any cause inhering in the money system.
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 John P. (John Percival) Jones
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