How To Use Quintessence In A Sentence
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In his brilliant first volume on the Second World War, Winston Churchill describes French statesmanship on the eve of war as ‘the quintessence of defeatism.’
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Sometime snooker world champion, perpetually in the tabloids for his substance-assisted high jinks, he's the quintessence of Essex wide-boy.
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What a thing to say: "I have achieved eumoiriety," -- namely the quintessence of happy-fatedness dealt unto oneself by a perfect altruism!
Simon the Jester
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It is precisely by their capacity to engage the observer to speculate on the meanings of particular images — as well as the potential meanings constellated from clusters of images — that these chambers reveal their quintessence.
Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro
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John Stuart was the quintessence of soft rather than hardcore, a woolly minded man of mush in striking contrast to his steel-edged father.
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The quintessence permeates the compost, soil and plants like astral perfume, and affects plant growth with subtle yet powerful forces of the cosmos.
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They give the quintessence of laboratory experiments as to what are the effects of different energies such as light (heliotropism), electricity (galvanotropism), gravity (geotropism), etc., in their reaction and influence upon the movements and actions of living organisms.
Manhood of Humanity.
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Electricity is the quintessence of the ‘modern way of life’, but the electric power systems themselves are demanding, dangerous, and delicate.
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That's what I call the quintessence of domestic economy.
Bill Arp from the uncivil war to date, 1861-1903,
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Euro 2004 has begun on the right note, as a quintessence of football skills.
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Wachner is the quintessence of the driven, laser-focused American businesswoman.
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The quintessence of luxury, based upon a range of cashmere and guanashina, the main collection for this winter is an irresistible invitation to enjoy the ultimate in refined elegance.
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Paradoxically, however, critical discussions of these same films and their powerful physical effects also often suggest that they are the quintessence of cinema.
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The energy, the spirit and quintessence of the land of his birth dominate his personal space, from which emerges his external space - the canvas.
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How could this boy from Brooklyn, this New Yorker in heart and mind, this supermale with six marriages, this man whom the feminist Kate Millett called the quintessence of the heterosexual, macho pig — how could this man have chosen to live in a small town of 3,500 souls, most of them homosexuals, whose contribution to local culture consists (if I am to believe the waiter in the faux fisherman's restaurant where I wait till it's time for our interview) of a festival of sexy bodies, a week for leather enthusiasts, and a colloquium on the problems posed by adoption by same-sex couples?
In the Footsteps of Tocqueville (Part V)
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It was nationalism, quintessence of Chinese culture and pragmatistic thought that led him to the idea of calendar reform.
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He was the quintessence of all that Eva most deeply loathed.
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The universality of the mouse fear roves its prehistoric origin, showing how consistently and successfully women have been educating men in heroism; in earliest times it probably required a whole dinotherium ramping at the cave-mouth to induce primitive man to draw weapon in his mate's defense, but now to evoke the quintessence of chivalry, all a woman has to do is to hop on a chair at sight of a mouse.
The Joys of Being a Woman and Other Papers
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A white shirt whose collar peeps out from beneath a jumper is the quintessence of prim.
Times, Sunday Times
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Beyond the four elements, everything consisted of a fifth substance, the quintessence, which unlike them was not subject to any kind of change except locomotion, uniformly and in perfect circles.
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There can be surely not a scintilla of doubt that the whole grisly situation is the very quintessence of irresponsibility.
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The family farm is the quintessence of old English society, embodying all those virtues of continuity, tradition, patriotism, and local attachment that our ancestors embraced and defended in two world wars.
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Malvinas Islands, in reiterating its support of the inalienable right of the people of Belize to self-determination, independence and territorial integrity, the conference again confirmed that which its declaration defined as the quintessence of nonalinement.
MEETS OFFICIALS AT UN:DEPARTS FOR HOME
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Rolfe Kent's sunny up-tempo soundtrack bubbles ironically along, its sixties Italian jazz the quintessence of carefree.
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It's the quintessence of a free society not to be intimidated into silence.
Times, Sunday Times
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The Vedas are the quintessence of classical Hindu philosophy.
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[6344] Seneca, a frantic error; or as Austin, Insanus animi morbus, a furious disease of the soul; insania omnium insanissima, a quintessence of madness; [6345] for he that is superstitious can never be quiet.
Anatomy of Melancholy
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The quintessence of luxury, based upon a range of cashmere, the main collection for this winter is an irresistible invitation to enjoy the ultimate in refined elegance.
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The Authorized Version became the quintessence of Englishness and an index of human character.
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It is the quintessence of a gabled Cotswold stone manor house.
Times, Sunday Times
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Richard Conlon's Brick, handsome, quiet, explosively raging in his guilt and despair over the death of his friend, is the quintessence of the rich boy laid low by unforgiving social mores.
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Therefore, chopsticks are also looked upon as the quintessence of Japanese culture.
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It was, as a matter of fact, customariness of thought and action and the quintessence of convention that was desired.
The Titan
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Turning round to look at Gumo Ridge It'struck me as the quintessence of autumn.
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Until I saw that quintessence of rot two days ago, Manfred was my image of malignity.
LOOKING FOR THE SPARK
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Françoise Hardy was the waif-like archetype for a certain type of French vocal which many consider the quintessence of Sixties French pop.
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The colts that constitute the ‘A’ team and representing the quintessence of the second line talent waiting for national recognition should strive to match the deeds of their predecessors.
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After this quintessence of the buffo style, La Cenerentola, while not lacking in comic situations, is more sentimentally inclined, and in the remaining years of his Italian career Rossini produced no comedy at all.
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Not even a hint of this doctrine of salvation is to be found in the Sermon on the Mount - the quintessence of Jesus's message - or in the Lord's Prayer, or in Christ's traditional parables.
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In ancient philosophy, quintessence was believed to be the stuff of heavenly bodies, which Aristotle credited as divine, alive and intelligent.
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Daughters of St. Francis of Sales, on the occasion of their Tercentenary, give to the English-speaking world a work which, in its wise curtailment and still full detail, may be called the quintessence of the Spirit of their Master, the Founder of their Institute.
The Spirit of St. Francis de Sales
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Quintessence. You collapse a bit of time into a physical substance.
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Played in its unadulterated form the venerable, patriotic tune has a divine character: Cameron managed to capture the quintessence of the song.
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The quintessence of luxury, based upon a range of cashmere and guanashina, the main collection for this winter is an irresistible invitation to enjoy the ultimate in refined elegance.
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It concentrates the quintessence of Chinese opera, integrates the modern fashion with the ancient civilization.
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Astrophysicists and cosmologists have resorted to the term quintessence to describe the mysterious "dark matter" that appears to be accelerating the expansion of the universe.
Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro
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As I listened to these bells chiming and the birds singing, I thought to myself that this was the quintessence of a peaceful American university campus.
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It keeps and fuses the national spirit and quintessence in national aesthetic consciousness and tradition design.
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In his last drama, "Arminius," he extravagantly scatters his panegyrics on its fifteen predecessors; but of the present one he has the most exalted notion: it is the quintessence of Scudery!
Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 (of 3)
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They give the quintessence of laboratory experiments as to what are the effects of different energies such as light (heliotropism), electricity (galvanotropism), gravity (geotropism), etc., in their reaction and influence upon the movements and actions of living organisms.
Manhood of Humanity.
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Funny how, in an article about a violent religious conflict (which liberals describe as the quintessence of religion), only one of the religions is named.
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Rains, thunder, roaring rivers, sky-scraping hills, industrious people, charming smiling girls, Buddhist flavor, sensational jungles, and varied wildlife are the quintessence of the life of Darjeeling.
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Mercury was believed to possess magical properties and some regarded it as the quintessence of the human body and of all substances.
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Can it be," with a side-glance at the newcomer, "that we have lost our -- I may not call him our quintessence or alcahest -- rather shall I say our baser ore, that at the virgin touch of our philosophical stone blushed into ruddy gold?
The Long Night
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The quintessence of modern masculinity.
Times, Sunday Times
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It has an odour which I can only describe as the quintessence of onions, but this is concentrated in the rind.
Insulinde: Experiences of a Naturalist's Wife in the Eastern Archipelago
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It's the quintessence of all the bad things about email and none of the good things.
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The quintessence of religion lies in actual perception and realization of Self under tutelage of a perfect master of the time.
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The Agony and the Ecstasy is the much-mocked quintessence of Hollywood's ham-fistedness when it comes to filming the lives of the great artists.
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Previously I was playing a beautiful prelude in C sharp minor op. 45 by Chopin, a piece that is the quintessence of healing compassion, so my heart was full and my spirit was ready to heal.
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If any high points are to be singled out on this cd, ‘Nostalgia’ is a good one, a raga that captures the quintessence of some musical explorations in certain times.
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And sitting in the dark theatre about halfway through Intern Academy, the subject of this little foray, I realized one thing: this film captures the quintessence of Canada.
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It pronounces: ‘the constant endeavour to achieve a balance between bodily and mental health was the quintessence of the Greek spirit’.
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In both his visits to the wicket he was the quintessence of anxiety.
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The absolute emphasis on compassion and ahimsa in Buddhism and Jainism are the quintessence of peace.
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Although the four-elements paradigm remained robust throughout antiquity and through the Middle Ages (during which a mystical tradition emerged proposing a fifth element, ruling the others, the socalled quintessence), atomism fell out of favor for nearly two millennia until the quantitative philosophy of the early Enlightenment created a conceptual environment friendly to the metamorphosis of alchemy, through the chemical experiments of Robert Hooke,
VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XXIII No 4
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Here was that quintessence of Dublin, the epitome of the quidnunc, that quarter-moon, man-in-the-moon face, with the chin jutting to meet the nose and the mouth slanting some neat aperçu to its neighbor, cheekiest face in Europe, and the nosiest.
At Swim, Two Boys
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A commentary on the website of CBS, the nearest equivalent to the BBC for serious news in the US, summed up: ‘Diana was the quintessence of cool’.
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To gaze out onto the above, to behold the quintessence of mind, the elegance of reality.
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The speech contains much excellent advice, but perhaps the quintessence is, ‘To thine own self be true.’
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It would have redefined beauty, and captured the very quintessence of rural innocence.
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Packed in a special blue box, they are known for their singular and impressive taste experience that is the quintessence of coffee.
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It is the quintessence of experiences, not the experiences themselves.
Times, Sunday Times
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Other geographical regions defined by polka have emerged, for example the Texas-Mexico border regions, where various conjunto fusions have transformed polka while retaining its quintessence.
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There are then some really sweet and amiable verses on a French lady, separated from her own children, fondling the baby of a neighbouring cottager; -- after which we have this quintessence of unmeaningness, entitled, 'Foresight.'
Early Reviews of English Poets
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Despite his trepidation, betrayed by occasional furtive glances to the right and left, Waddley was the quintessence of efficiency.
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And where in modern poetry is there a superber union of the scientific and the poetic vision than in this magnificent passage ” the quintessence of the poet's conception of the rapture of life: ” “The centre-fire heaves underneath the earth,
Life of Robert Browning
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Her book captures the quintessence of Renaissance humanism.
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They give the quintessence of laboratory experiments as to what are the effects of different energies such as light (heliotropism), electricity (galvanotropism), gravity (geotropism), etc., in their reaction and influence upon the movements and actions of living organisms.
Manhood of Humanity.
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It is not everyday that you are given the fortune of acquainting yourself with an quintessence of perfection like me.
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Her early recordings reveal a soprano of shimmering sexuality, though later in life she adopted a low, husky, gravelly tone and the sharp textual delivery of a diseuse, which for many remains the quintessence of the German cabaret style.
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‘Fingerprint’ evidence was regarded as virtually beyond challenge until replaced in recent years by DNA hits as the very quintessence of certainty.
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The brief, "matterful" notes to his Specimens of the Old English Dramatists are the very quintessence of criticism, -- the flower and fruit of years of thoughtful reading of the old English drama.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 72, October, 1863
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But above all the play itself - its writing, the conceptions it embodies, and the way it tells its story - is a quintessence of skill.
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With eloquent violence, workers in Britain smashed the clocks above the factory gates, the loathed symbol of a new world order which had stolen their time, that quintessence of true individual freedom.
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What sound best evokes the quintessence of Britishness?
Times, Sunday Times
