inhere
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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
The question of extremism does not inhere in any particular religion or any one part of the world.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 6, 2015
Truthfulness is a quality that may inhere either in a person or in his statements or beliefs.
From English Synonyms and Antonyms With Notes on the Correct Use of Prepositions by James Champlin Fernald
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
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
The richness of Shakespeare’s unique comic vision inheres in such intelligent lyricism.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 22, 2016
All of which was very true, but Jack Graham could not see that there inheres in truth no imperative demand for its expression.
From The Westerners by Stewart Edward White
By contrast, Aristotle believed that color inhered in objects.
From Salon ● Nov. 16, 2024
She did not: she accepted her as a convention in which affection inhered through tradition alone....
From Joan Thursday by Louis Joseph Vance
He pointed to the well-accepted medicinal virtues which inhered in gems.
From Medical Investigation in Seventeenth Century England Papers Read at a Clark Library Seminar, October 14, 1967 by Charles W. Bodemer
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
"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
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
But there are other powers or forms inhering in matter prior to the material intellect.
From A History of Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy by Isaac Husik
This gives a clear view of the will power inhering in the mental man, and its wonderful influence on the body.
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
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
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
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Plessy v. Ferguson (Dissent by Justice John Marshall Harlan)
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