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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
Subsist, sub-sist′, v.i. to have existence: to remain, continue, inhere: to have the means of living.—n.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various
Much of the drama of baseball inheres in its slowness.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2026
In Shakespeare’s play, the occult is an expression of what already inheres in the protagonist’s psychology.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 14, 2022
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
It inheres in the idea of eternity and God.
From St. Paul's Epistle to the Ephesians A Practical Exposition by Charles Gore
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
Whatever problems might have inhered in that question when women were personally subject to their families or their husbands are well-nigh outgrown in all civilized countries, and entirely so in the most advanced.
From The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume IV by Ida Husted Harper
Amelie believed a certain distinction inhered in being always late for an appointment.
From Linda Lee, Incorporated A Novel by Louis Joseph Vance
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
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 Horace E. Scudder
The question to be put to any doubtful fact in nature is this—'What is your use?' and the reality of the fact is in ratio to the degree of usefulness inhering in it.
From Here are Ladies by James Stephens
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
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
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Plessy v. Ferguson (Dissent by Justice John Marshall Harlan)
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