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in the nature of things1Inevitable: it is in the nature of things that the majority of music prizes get set up for performers rather than composers...- It is in the nature of these things that the timing and duration of our visits were occasionally unpredictable.
- It undoubtedly takes a more complex and multi-faceted view of things than some of my earlier films but I think that's just in the nature of things.
- It's probably in the nature of things that a Toronto awards show should be focused on Toronto talent, but some of Montreal's brightest lights did get noticed in Hogtown.
2Inevitably: in the nature of things, old people spend much more time indoors...- Toleration in its deepest essence is founded on this view of human nature, a view that, in the nature of things, impresses itself most urgently upon us at the moments of our greatest destructiveness.
- This would be a stupid argument since phase A rather inevitably leads to phase B, and B is in the nature of things the complicated phase.
- But his ‘crucial test’, as he now explains it, is one that, in the nature of things, simply can't be met, or would be so improbable as to amount to an impossibility.
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