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These contradictions inhere in every medium, of course.
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 17, 2019
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
But a short story's interest may not inhere in matter foreign to the thread of the story.
From The Technique of Fiction Writing by Robert Saunders Dowst
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
The right to hang banners is a small thing, but the value of free speech inheres in acts of individual expression just as much as in grand statements of collective purpose.
From New York Times ● Jul. 24, 2021
But the reason that it’s virtual — a global pandemic — only heightens the dread that inheres in the seasonal dynamic.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 21, 2020
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
Rather it recalled one to the suggestive and sane mysticity which inheres in all common things, in all common uses.
From Rome by Hope Malleson
By contrast, Aristotle believed that color inhered in objects.
From Salon ● Nov. 16, 2024
To his mind a most delectable flavour of discreet scandal inhered in such collections of shabby properties from anonymous homes.
From Red Masquerade by Louis Joseph Vance
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
Thus he satisfied that instinct of beauty which was born of his romantic soul, while he gratified the demand of truth which inhered from his scientific training by his minute and scrupulous exactness.
From Selected Writings of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant
Buchanan did not believe that self-preservation inhered in the Constitution or the Union.
From Slavery and Four Years of War, Vol. 1-2 A Political History of Slavery in the United States Together With a Narrative of the Campaigns and Battles of the Civil War In Which the Author Took Part: 1861-1865 by Joseph Warren Keifer
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
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
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
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
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Plessy v. Ferguson (Dissent by Justice John Marshall Harlan)
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