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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
There is," says Emanuel Deutsch, "a peculiar something supposed to inhere in epilepsy.
From Religion & Sex Studies in the Pathology of Religious Development by Cohen, Chapman
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
“Arbitration is a matter of contract, and consequently the parties to an arbitration can ask for no more impartiality than inheres in the method they have chosen.”
From Washington Post ● Apr. 25, 2016
Beneath the opprobrium lay a shared assumption: that Shakespeare’s genius inheres not in his complicated characters or carefully orchestrated scenes or subtle ideas but in the singularity of his words.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 6, 2015
But since reproductive power inheres in these Recessive traits, these traits are preserved in the sex-cells, equally with the Dominant traits.
From Feminism and Sex-Extinction by Kenealy, Arabella
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 Adams, Samuel Hopkins
To his mind a most delectable flavour of discreet scandal inhered in such collections of shabby properties from anonymous homes.
From Red Masquerade by Vance, Louis Joseph
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 Stanton, Elizabeth Cady
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 Keifer, Joseph Warren
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
The question to be put to any doubtful fact in nature is this—'What is your use?' and the reality of the fact is in ratio to the degree of usefulness inhering in it.
From Here are Ladies by Stephens, James
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
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 Edman, Irwin
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 Ganguli, Kisari Mohan
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Plessy v. Ferguson (Dissent by Justice John Marshall Harlan)
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