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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
The laws without the substance would be only laws, and could give no being having no ground in which to inhere.
From Know the Truth; A critique of the Hamiltonian Theory of Limitation by Jesse H. Jones
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
Inside, where the mind makes comparisons and analogies, the dissociation inheres in malfunctioning metaphors: what is a “symposium / of endangered stars” and how would it evict itself?
From The New Yorker ● May 8, 2017
The richness of Shakespeare’s unique comic vision inheres in such intelligent lyricism.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 22, 2016
Much of the wit in “Telegraph Avenue” inheres in Chabon’s astonishing prose.
From New York Times ● Sep. 8, 2012
Rather it recalled one to the suggestive and sane mysticity which inheres in all common things, in all common uses.
From Rome by Hope Malleson
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
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
The like imaginative strain, so scorned of our petty day, inhered in all the lofty souls of that age.
From The Story of a Soul (L'Histoire d'une Âme): The Autobiography of St. Thérèse of Lisieux With Additional Writings and Sayings of St. Thérèse by Thomas N. (Thomas Nimmo) Taylor
Further indication of this inhered in the wide yawn, of which he was in mid-enjoyment, when a hand on his shoulder cut short his ecstasy.
From Average Jones 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
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
There is a subtle and positive balm to weak nerves and sore lungs inhering in the atmosphere of pine forests, wholly unknown to that of any other.
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
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
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
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