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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
Their opponents used formerly to reply, that the uniform order of sensations implies an external cause determining the law of the order; and that the attributes inhere in this external cause or substratum, viz. matter.
From Analysis of Mr. Mill's System of Logic by W. (William) Stebbing
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
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
Much of the wit in “Telegraph Avenue” inheres in Chabon’s astonishing prose.
From New York Times ● Sep. 8, 2012
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
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
Strange, that in a nation in which was born and in which has inhered all the indomitableness of individualism should be so long unable to understand the secret of personal liberty!
From History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II by Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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
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
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
That Vyavahara which has, as above, been said to be characterised by a belief in either of two litigant parties, should be known by us as inhering in the king.
From The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 by Kisari Mohan Ganguli
"The Church of the Middle Ages did not hesitate to provide itself with eunuchs in order to supply cathedral choirs with the soprano tones inhering by nature in women alone."
From Religion & Sex Studies in the Pathology of Religious Development by Chapman Cohen
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
Relation, then, considered formally as such, is not an absolute accident inhering in a subject, but is a reference of this subject to some other thing, this latter being called the term of the relation.
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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