qualities
Americannoun
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Jorge Luis Borges, for instance, who began translating Kafka in 1938, was attracted to the labyrinthine nature of the stories, which, Ms. Hruska writes, combine the paradoxical qualities of “brevity and endlessness.”
From The Wall Street Journal • May 15, 2026
But she seems to have wandered in from some other aesthetic universe; the very qualities that lead some to say she doesn’t fit in are those that make her feel fresh to me.
From Los Angeles Times • May 14, 2026
Improving one or two of those qualities often reduces the third.
From Science Daily • May 13, 2026
Given the chemical’s acidic and corrosive qualities, it would be difficult to load it onto a truck, he noted.
From MarketWatch • May 12, 2026
These variant qualities were hereditary—carried as discrete instructions in sperm and eggs.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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