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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
The question of extremism does not inhere in any particular religion or any one part of the world.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 6, 2015
No; and therefore since such accidental modes of being really exist, there exists also the substantial mode of being in which they inhere.
From Ontology or the Theory of Being by Peter Coffey
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
She yields to text the way a master violinist yields to a score, drawing out color that inheres in a composition but typically passes unnoticed.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 11, 2014
Indeed, I have the most affectionate and jealous regard for every right that inheres in my dower of American womanhood.
From A Speckled Bird by Augusta J. Evans Wilson
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 Louis Joseph Vance
In this waif of our gutters and ward of our sidewalk artist inhered a spirit of the most punctilious and rigid honor, the gift, perhaps, of some forgotten ancestry.
From From a Bench in Our Square by Samuel Hopkins Adams
Amelie believed a certain distinction inhered in being always late for an appointment.
From Linda Lee, Incorporated A Novel by Louis Joseph Vance
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
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
Justification in the Catholic sense, therefore, is not a mere outward imputation of the justice of Christ, but a true inward renewal and sanctification wrought by a grace intrinsically inhering in the soul.
From Grace, Actual and Habitual A Dogmatic Treatise by Arthur Preuss
One is tempted to say that THE NATIONS, as if conscious of the kindly disposition inhering in the spiritual existences toward ourselves, have simultaneously agreed in conferring upon them titles of endearment and affection.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 56, No. 345, July, 1844 by Various
But the substance as ground and the complete set of laws as inhering in the ground, and being its organization when combined, become a spiritual person who thinks.
From Know the Truth; A critique of the Hamiltonian Theory of Limitation by Jesse H. Jones
Or do we mean that the organism can elicit these various acts only by means of several accidental realities, really distinct from, and inhering in, itself?
From Ontology or the Theory of Being by Peter Coffey
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Plessy v. Ferguson (Dissent by Justice John Marshall Harlan)
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