How To Use in and of itself In A Sentence
- Surely the physical definition implicit in ascribing masculinity to the divine is a contradiction of omnipotence in and of itself. Archive 2007-04-01
- The administration's decision has reignited debate over whether affirmative action is an effective tool against racism, or a racist policy in and of itself.
- Computer hardware in and of itself does not provide a particularly useful mind tool.
- Of course, while Brown sets himself up as using a skeptic and a debunker of frauds and charlatons with no real agenda in and of itself, he still has an agenda . . . to entertain us through confusion, confoundment, and illusion . . . and, he's quite good at it. Life of Brian:
- The teleological argument is implicit: to observe the complex order evident in existential reality is, in and of itself, the decisive action of verification; such complex order can only arise from design, so to establish the epistemic certainty of such complex order is to establish the epistemic certainty of the action of design having been carried out by a designing agency. Towards a Lexicon of Folly: Factard
- Any coin that caries the NORWEB pedigree is special in and of itself. The Best and the Worst of 2008 : Coin Collecting News
- Even though it's 2011, we're still litigating whether rap music in and of itself is a societal corrosive or an artistic expression that channels raw experience and expurgates emotions in the form of a... The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
- The ABA issue doesn't depend on whether tenure is a good idea, in and of itself, does it? Balkinization
- In the UK, the word is condemnatory of any abhorrently vicious person, but that condemnation, as an action in and of itself, is not judged morally obscene. Archive 2009-01-01
- Rejecting the autotelic meaning offered in the narrative in and of itself, these readings become attempts to bind it to an "objective reality" which, in a postmodernist view, does not exist. Notes on Strange Fiction: Postmodern(ism)