inhere
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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
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
Methodologically speaking, though, the gap between these two more basic strategies may speak to a fundamental paradox that inheres in archival projects more generally.
From Slate ● Feb. 22, 2017
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
She yields to text the way a master violinist yields to a score, drawing out color that inheres in a composition but typically passes unnoticed.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 11, 2014
Much of the wit in “Telegraph Avenue” inheres in Chabon’s astonishing prose.
From New York Times ● Sep. 8, 2012
Another fact has been noted by us, and ought to enter into a description of the physical agent in question: this agent inheres in the persons and not in the table.
From Mysterious Psychic Forces An Account of the Author's Investigations in Psychical Research, Together with Those of Other European Savants by Camille Flammarion
By contrast, Aristotle believed that color inhered in objects.
From Salon ● Nov. 16, 2024
Jesus Christ was conscious of no separation—not the thinnest film of air between these Two who adhered and inhered so closely and so continuously.
From Expositions of Holy Scripture St. John Chapters I to XIV by Alexander Maclaren
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
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
"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
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
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
Indeed, it is precisely an inhering diversity that distinguishes unity from homogeneity or uniformity.
From The Prosperity of Humankind by Baha'i International Community
The difference inhering to the benefit of the public, between the two routes, has been estimated, amounts to about one dollar per barrel in favor of this new outlet.
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
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Plessy v. Ferguson (Dissent by Justice John Marshall Harlan)
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