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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
This virtue requires a metallic body in which to inhere.
From Medical Investigation in Seventeenth Century England Papers Read at a Clark Library Seminar, October 14, 1967 by Charles W. Bodemer
Much of the drama of baseball inheres in its slowness.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2026
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
The richness of Shakespeare’s unique comic vision inheres in such intelligent lyricism.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 22, 2016
These explanations are instructive, as illustrating the view that the actual reality of the accidental mode of being consists in its affecting, determining, the subject in which it inheres.
From Ontology or the Theory of Being by Peter Coffey
By contrast, Aristotle believed that color inhered in objects.
From Salon ● Nov. 16, 2024
In this speech an accent of irony inhered to exasperate P. Sybarite.
From The Day of Days An Extravaganza by Arthur William Brown
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
"Why—er—no," began the puzzled Julien, who failed for the moment to perceive what of tragic portent inhered in a prospective afternoon of golf.
From From a Bench in Our Square by Samuel Hopkins Adams
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
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
Indeed, it is precisely an inhering diversity that distinguishes unity from homogeneity or uniformity.
From The Prosperity of Humankind by Baha'i International Community
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
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
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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Plessy v. Ferguson (Dissent by Justice John Marshall Harlan)
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