The work of very few contemporary authors could bear that sort of scrutiny.
McMichael would have us understand (9), the statement that Socrates could have been foolish, to be expressing a fact about a complex, abstract property, a role, that bears some sort of accessibility relation to another role that is exemplified by Socrates.
I almost immediately realize that the dire persona that emerges from his work and the actual person who is Lucas Samaras bear the sort of relationship to each other that a lion bears to a house cat.
She can't bear the sort of standups who tell stories rather than jokes, the kind who make audiences think rather than belly laugh.
Shelves bear the sort of books you might expect: A History of Toys by Antonia Fraser, and Seeing Things by Oliver Postgate, Davenport's hero and the creator of his own favourite kids' TV show The Clangers.
Zoos tend to treat them like walruses, putting them on slabs of wet rock, when really they are bears and behave like bears when put in that sort of environment.
"He is a good person, and it is a good book, but I don't think it can bear the weight of that sort of thing," he said.
She then paired pieces that bore some sort of relationship to each other in terms of color, shape or symbolism on adjacent pages, and on sequential ones.
This happens all too often to Mr. Bergdoll, a garrulous 36-year-old who bears a sort-of-maybe resemblance to Mr. Travolta and who, by his own admission, is prone to distraction.
Intuitively, the recognition of moral properties like goodness bears some sort of intimate connection to motivation not in the sense of being sufficiently motivated by such recognition that one actually does the relevant thing but in the sense of being motivated to some degree to do it.
