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belonging to a thing by its very nature- It has an intrinsic value separate from its sale price.
- The intrinsic reward of a job well done.
- To have that sense of one's intrinsic worth... is potentially to have everything...Joan Didion
- There's something intrinsically therapeutic about choosing to spend your time in a wide, open park-like setting that non-golfers can never truly understand.Charles Rosin
- form was treated as something intrinsic, as the very essence of the thing
- The intrinsic ridiculousness of the situation was too much for his sense of humour.London, Jack -- Adventure
- intrinsic muscles
- Its intrinsic value does not exceed thirty thousand francs.Dumas, Alexandre -- Ten Years Later
- I said as I bucked, my pelvis possessing some intrinsic knowledge of the movements needed.Abraham Verghese -- Cutting for Stone
- Had that been automatic, even intrinsic? he wondered.Nora Roberts -- Blood Brothers
- Where were the flares intrinsic to such an operation?Robert Ludlum -- The Bourne Ultimatum
- Indeed, they could stand as a textbook case against the notion that countries are shaped by the intrinsic qualities of their people.Tracy Kidder -- Strength in What Remains
- "Oh, if the thing is intrinsically improper," said Newman, "I won't go into it.Henry James -- The American
- There is nothing intrinsically evil about us.Henry H. Neff -- The Fiend And The Forge
- It would not be wrong to say that the idea of the intrinsic value of childhood dates from the Enlightenment.Jostein Gaarder -- Sophie's World
- More than you think it really and intrinsically worth.Jane Austen -- Sense and Sensibility
- He feels strongly that those activities have intrinsic value in terms of connecting you to another person.Malcolm Gladwell -- Blink
- Pain is simply our intrinsic medical adviser to warn us and stimulate us.H.G. Wells -- The Island of Dr. Moreau
- But since people generally have a reason for going to that much trouble, there had to be a decent intrinsic value involved.Roger Zelazny -- My Name is Legion
- And thus the intrinsic significance of our craft lies in the philosophical fact that we deal in nothing.Ayn Rand -- The Fountainhead
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