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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
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
We perceive, then, C. That for all mental operations which have as object pure laws and ideal forms, and that Being in whom all these inhere, this dictum is not true.
From Know the Truth; A critique of the Hamiltonian Theory of Limitation by Jesse H. Jones
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
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
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
That is, the perceived object has a unique character of uncertainty, which inheres in it as a present positive quality.
From Creative Intelligence Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude by Boyd H. Bode
By contrast, Aristotle believed that color inhered in objects.
From Salon ● Nov. 16, 2024
"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
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
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
She did not: she accepted her as a convention in which affection inhered through tradition alone....
From Joan Thursday 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
There is a subtle and positive balm to weak nerves and sore lungs inhering in the atmosphere of pine forests, wholly unknown to that of any other.
From Minnesota; Its Character and Climate Likewise Sketches of Other Resorts Favorable to Invalids; Together With Copious Notes on Health; Also Hints to Tourists and Emigrants. by Ledyard Bill
To regard them only as images with a value inhering in their bare essence, is to forfeit their benefits.
From The Moral Economy by Ralph Barton Perry
Our memorial calls your attention to the Pembina debate in 1874, when senators from eighteen States recognized the right of self-government as inhering in women.
From History of Woman Suffrage, Volume III by Elizabeth Cady Stanton
The deviations and departures characterizing an individual are still looked upon with suspicion; in principle they are evidences of the disturbances, revolts, and corruptions inhering in an individual apart from external authoritative guidance.
From Democracy and Education: an introduction to the philosophy of education by John Dewey
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Plessy v. Ferguson (Dissent by Justice John Marshall Harlan)
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