Example Sentences

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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

The right to hang banners is a small thing, but the value of free speech inheres in acts of individual expression just as much as in grand statements of collective purpose.

From New York Times • Jul. 24, 2021

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

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

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 Gilman, Lawrence