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Despite the difficulties that inhere in Holocaust memoir — we believe we know this history, and its subject matter defies language — “Mala’s Cat” is fresh, unsentimental and utterly unpredictable.
From New York Times ● Jan. 12, 2022
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
Accidents involve the essential relation of an aptitude to inhere in substances.
From Ontology or the Theory of Being by Peter Coffey
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
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
In describing how the British philologist William Jones “discovered” Sanskrit and noticed its affinity with Greek, Taseer nudges the reader toward his main thesis: history inheres in modernity.
From The New Yorker ● Mar. 30, 2019
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
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
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
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
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
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
Indeed, it is precisely an inhering diversity that distinguishes unity from homogeneity or uniformity.
From The Prosperity of Humankind by Baha'i International Community
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
Puritanism was radical in its views and sentiments, yet lacking that diffusive propagandist power inhering in conventional bodies.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 93, July, 1865 by Various
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