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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
They inhere in the task before every legislative body representing the vastly differing interests, opinions, sentiments, and desires of a people.
From Latin America and the United States Addresses by Elihu Root by Robert Bacon
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
Beneath the opprobrium lay a shared assumption: that Shakespeare’s genius inheres not in his complicated characters or carefully orchestrated scenes or subtle ideas but in the singularity of his words.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 6, 2015
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
Much of the wit in “Telegraph Avenue” inheres in Chabon’s astonishing prose.
From New York Times ● Sep. 8, 2012
The dramatic quality of any situation inheres in the struggle between opposing forces which each presents, and rises or falls with the essential strength of such forces.
From The Technique of Fiction Writing by Robert Saunders Dowst
By contrast, Aristotle believed that color inhered in objects.
From Salon ● Nov. 16, 2024
But granting the premise of the Supreme Court decision, "that the constitution does not confer suffrage on any one," then it inhered with the citizen before the constitution was framed.
From History of Woman Suffrage, Volume III by Elizabeth Cady Stanton
He pointed to the well-accepted medicinal virtues which inhered in gems.
From Medical Investigation in Seventeenth Century England Papers Read at a Clark Library Seminar, October 14, 1967 by Charles W. Bodemer
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 Clinton W. (Clinton Wallace) Gilbert
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 Surendranath Dasgupta
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
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
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
Any generalization, by virtue of the very fact that it does apply to a wide variety of situations, must forego concern with the peculiar colors and qualities inhering in any specific experience.
From Human Traits and their Social Significance by Irwin Edman
So also karma or action is supposed to be a separate entity, and even the class notions are perceived as separate entities inhering in substances.
From A History of Indian Philosophy, Volume 1 by Surendranath Dasgupta
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