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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
But a short story's interest may not inhere in matter foreign to the thread of the story.
From The Technique of Fiction Writing by Robert Saunders Dowst
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
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
Res′idence, act of dwelling in a place: place where one resides, a domicile: that in which anything permanently inheres: the settling of liquors; Res′idency, residence: the official dwelling of a government officer in India.—adj.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various
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
Qualities had independent existence as much as substances, but when any new substances were produced, the qualities rushed forward and inhered in them.
From A History of Indian Philosophy, Volume 1 by Surendranath Dasgupta
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 Joseph Warren Keifer
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
Now the ordinary course of nature never presents us with accidents except as inhering, mediately or immediately, in a substance.
From Ontology or the Theory of Being by Peter Coffey
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
The fruit is Nature's attestation of the geniality of the season, the richness and abundance of the elements inhering in the soil or supplied to it by the water.
From What I know of farming: a series of brief and plain expositions of practical agriculture as an art based upon science by Horace Greeley
Then, in forgetfulness of the fact that all these things are pure abstractions, it has been tacitly assumed that there is a force inhering in the word, the rite, the rule, which produces its evolution.
From Introduction to the Study of History by George Godfrey Berry
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