inhere
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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 question of extremism does not inhere in any particular religion or any one part of the world.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 6, 2015
What then of all those qualities which inhere immediately in the quantity of corporeal substances?
From Ontology or the Theory of Being by Peter Coffey
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
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
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
Every such habit inheres immediately in some operative faculty, as science in the intellect, or justice in the will.
From Ontology or the Theory of Being by Peter Coffey
By contrast, Aristotle believed that color inhered in objects.
From Salon ● Nov. 16, 2024
In this speech an accent of irony inhered to exasperate P. Sybarite.
From The Day of Days An Extravaganza by Arthur William Brown
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
He pointed to the well-accepted medicinal virtues which inhered in gems.
From Medical Investigation in Seventeenth Century England Papers Read at a Clark Library Seminar, October 14, 1967 by Charles W. Bodemer
She did not: she accepted her as a convention in which affection inhered through tradition alone....
From Joan Thursday by Louis Joseph Vance
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
But value is not a property inhering in any article itself.
From Money: Speech of Hon. John P. Jones, of Nevada, On the Free Coinage of Silver; in the United States Senate, May 12 and 13, 1890 by John P. (John Percival) Jones
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
Puritanism was radical in its views and sentiments, yet lacking that diffusive propagandist power inhering in conventional bodies.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 93, July, 1865 by Various
The question to be put to any doubtful fact in nature is this—'What is your use?' and the reality of the fact is in ratio to the degree of usefulness inhering in it.
From Here are Ladies by James Stephens
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Plessy v. Ferguson (Dissent by Justice John Marshall Harlan)
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