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in and of itself

ADVERB
  1. with respect to its inherent nature
    this statement is interesting per se

How To Use in and of itself In A Sentence

  • Suffering is not some great salvific act in and of itself.
  • All right, first of all, I've been reading your columns and you're strangely optimistic this year and that in and of itself can hex the Red Sox as we know.
  • The ascription of an alethic morphology to the mass of epistemic certainties is always ultimately a premise in and of itself, a supposition of relevance. Bukiet on Brooklyn Books
  • Yet Harris foregoes mention of this salient fact entirely, arguably an absolute, archimedean point in and of itself. On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
  • In other words, religion is our way of making sense out of nonsense, necessary precisely because life, in and of itself, may well be meaningless.
  • In and of itself, cork in landfills is not necessarily a bad thing, but increasing the use of fossil fuels to transport it negates the recycling effort. Corkfinger - Amorim, ReCORK America and cork recycling | Dr Vino's wine blog
  • After all, it is uptake and use that drive the real economic benefits, not speed in and of itself. Times, Sunday Times
  • Although this step does break the logjam to some extent, it is not exactly a huge breakthrough in and of itself.
  • The word infiltration in and of itself would suggest that someone is trying to get something or spying of some sort, is there not? CNN Transcript Oct 16, 2009
  • There are counterarguments - that winning in and of itself doesn't prove who's better and even that winning decisively doesn't mean that the same team would do so again if the teams were to meet next week. Christopher Liss: NFL Playoff Observations -- Divisional Round
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