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inhere

[in-heer] / ɪnˈhɪər /


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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

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

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

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

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

The richness of Shakespeare’s unique comic vision inheres in such intelligent lyricism.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 22, 2016

That inevitable turn is the essence of the impulse to dramatic creation that inheres in a first-person narration.

From The New Yorker ● Apr. 25, 2015

In it inheres a capacity for expression, and a quality of enchantment in the result, that music had not before exerted—an enchantment that invades the mind by stealth yet holds it with enchaining power.

From Aspects of Modern Opera Estimates and Inquiries by Lawrence Gilman

By contrast, Aristotle believed that color inhered in objects.

From Salon ● Nov. 16, 2024

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

In this speech an accent of irony inhered to exasperate P. Sybarite.

From The Day of Days An Extravaganza by Arthur William Brown

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

In that mysterious sound inhered the fetich power.

From Fetichism in West Africa Forty Years' Observations of Native Customs and Superstitions by Robert Hamill Nassau

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

That Vyavahara which has, as above, been said to be characterised by a belief in either of two litigant parties, should be known by us as inhering in the king.

From The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 by Kisari Mohan Ganguli

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

So too is substance absolute being, compared with accidents as inhering and existing in substance.

From Ontology or the Theory of Being by Peter Coffey

Justification in the Catholic sense, therefore, is not a mere outward imputation of the justice of Christ, but a true inward renewal and sanctification wrought by a grace intrinsically inhering in the soul.

From Grace, Actual and Habitual A Dogmatic Treatise by Arthur Preuss


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