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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
It is but a fresh instance of the stubborn vitality which seems to inhere in the hoary superstitions of the past.
From Creed And Deed A Series of Discourses by Felix Adler
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
We shall be more fully aware that righteousness inheres in honest occupation.
From The Holy Earth by L. H. (Liberty Hyde) Bailey
By contrast, Aristotle believed that color inhered in objects.
From Salon ● Nov. 16, 2024
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
In this speech an accent of irony inhered to exasperate P. Sybarite.
From The Day of Days An Extravaganza by Arthur William Brown
Whatever problems might have inhered in that question when women were personally subject to their families or their husbands are well-nigh outgrown in all civilized countries, and entirely so in the most advanced.
From The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume IV by Ida Husted Harper
Conceding freely the incredible reality of this phase of her history, she none the less contended that in it no more true permanence inhered than in a dream.
From Nobody by W. L. Jacobs
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
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 Irwin Edman
It was the democratic principle carried to its utmost length, and yet the notion of an inhering law was quite as strongly held.
From Noah Webster American Men of Letters by Horace E. Scudder
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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