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  • Yet, in essence, these traitors to the human race can also be seen as enemies from outside human civilization.†   (source)
  • This cyberwar felt like it had nothing to do with the future, but was a part of the past, as if we were burrowing backwards, like a diseased worm, back into the essence of humankind's unending ability to inflict suffering upon one another.†   (source)
  • But with all due respect, to witness the essence of winter cheer one must venture farther north than London.†   (source)
  • That was the essence of Mamaw's genius.†   (source)
  • Experts say that the essence of good parenting is good guidance, and to a certain degree that's surely true.†   (source)
  • The twisting of it to bring out its essence?†   (source)
  • He could taste the familiar tang of museum air—an arid, deionized essence that carried a faint hint of carbon—the product of industrial, coal-filter dehumidifiers that ran around the clock to counteract the corrosive carbon dioxide exhaled by visitors.†   (source)
  • As she brushed by me I breathed the essence of gardenia.†   (source)
  • It had essence and structure.†   (source)
  • Having a matrix of preferences presented as your essence, as the whole you?†   (source)
  • 'That's not the essence of the charge,' Alex explained.†   (source)
  • You're always talking about 'doubt as the essence and not the opposite of faith'—but it seems to me that your doubt has taken control of you.†   (source)
  • Time is of the essence, as I'm sure you're aware.†   (source)
  • Time is of the essence in an emergency, don't you think?†   (source)
  • That is the essence of it, I suppose.†   (source)
  • Phineas was the essence of this careless peace.†   (source)
  • She remembered that night, long ago, when she had seen Ogbu-agali-odu, one of those evil essences loosed upon the world by the potent "medicines" which the tribe had made in the distant past against its enemies but had now forgotten how to control.†   (source)
  • Jamie was the truest essence of that very description.†   (source)
  • So what is teft—just pure essence.†   (source)
  • Nevertheless, the essence of what you say is true.†   (source)
  • Time is of the essence.†   (source)
  • If you hit a monster just right, you can dissolve them, send their essence back to Tartarus.†   (source)
  • She had read Virginia Woolf's The Waves three times and thought that a great transformation was being worked in human nature itself, and that only fiction, a new kind of fiction, could capture the essence of the change.†   (source)
  • There was nothing he could do except to be himself, to try to make the letters on the keyboard speak the truth of his heart, to work to make them reveal the essence of the squirrel he was.†   (source)
  • She took the essence of our life stories and made them palatable and enjoyable for a youth and teen audience.†   (source)
  • Like someone cut away the parts that weren't absolutely necessary for Ben to maintain his Ben essence.†   (source)
  • That was the essence of command.†   (source)
  • Time is of the essence.†   (source)
  • In essence, he invented a huge part of the twentieth century.†   (source)
  • In essence, politicians have put a lock on the front door while swinging the back door wide open.†   (source)
  • On the right is the ocean, on the left is the gulf; it is, in essence, the same water, but with two different names.†   (source)
  • Summon the essence of silver.†   (source)
  • But the essence remains the same.†   (source)
  • He had killed The Cat but, in essence, The Cat had escaped.†   (source)
  • "And as my very essence is a verb," she continued, "I am more attuned to verbs than nouns.†   (source)
  • The essence of honor lay in the moment of combat between equals.†   (source)
  • Just as seaweed is naturally soggy, you see, but turns brittle as it dries, my mother was giving up more and more of her essence.†   (source)
  • Over the next few days, when we began going out to see what had become of our acquaintances, we discovered that, badly damaged as the city had been, in essence it was still standing.†   (source)
  • You see, every person smells different, has a different essence.†   (source)
  • But on another plane—a plane that defies rationalizing, a more fragile plane, one whose essence would fracture and splinter if I even vocalized it—I wasn't surprised that she was calling.†   (source)
  • Yet conflict was a part of our lives, written into our very faces, hands, and arms, and to see how contradiction lived and survived in its essence, we had to look no farther than our own mother.†   (source)
  • He was the distilled essence of the dynamic manager, a guy who knew how to delegate, had the passion to inspire, and looked good in what he wore to work.†   (source)
  • It was comparatively faithful to the spirit of the original while capturing the essence of the show's regular characters.†   (source)
  • His ten-page memorandum captured the essence of all he had come to believe about the art of landscape architecture and how it should strive to conjure effects greater than the mere sum of petals and leaves.†   (source)
  • Bottles and jars fell before her madly searching fingers — cough syrup, Vaseline, Clairol Herbal Essence shampoo, hydrogen peroxide, benzocaine — they fell into the sink and shattered.†   (source)
  • And that is really the essence of Aristotle's criticism of Plato's theory of ideas.†   (source)
  • It was like the essence of life in New Orleans, so sweet that it can be fatal, so richly enticing that all other values are forgotten ...But as I was saying up river from us lived the Frenieres, a great old French family which had produced in this generation five young women and one young man.†   (source)
  • It's a bit hard to explain when you've never studied dimensional theory, but, in essence, that door can take you anywhere in this dimension that you want to go.†   (source)
  • He taught us a Korean crane dance, encouraged us to learn the essence of the dance, every subtle eye and even hair movement to feel like the bird's feathers.†   (source)
  • She peered through the crack for a long time, until the two men had finished emptying Rosa out, injecting her veins with liquid, and bathing her inside and out with aromatic vinegar and essence of lavender.†   (source)
  • Yesterday was Father's Day and the man that I have been told is my father issued a statement in essence telling me to call him.†   (source)
  • But the essence of Salesmen is that, on some level, they cannot be resisted.†   (source)
  • Speed was now of the essence.†   (source)
  • If he had not been what he was—in essence an old-style Christian—perhaps he would have agreed with Jeremiah de Saint-Amour that old age was an indecent state that had to be ended before it was too late.†   (source)
  • It's like the essence of the hospital down here—you know what I mean?†   (source)
  • In essence I told them I wasn't asking them to do anything that I wasn't also going to ask myself to do: simply, that I would be the hardest worker in the country the rest of the season and our team would be as well, if they were willing.†   (source)
  • These lumps seemed too small somehow, burned down to their essence.†   (source)
  • Its essence—highly alkaline.†   (source)
  • Time is of the essence.†   (source)
  • The obsessions with eloquence and general knowledge would appear to be ones that emerged with our generation, probably in the wake of Mr Marshall, when lesser men trying to emulate his greatness mistook the superficial for the essence.†   (source)
  • Bree was the essence of me.†   (source)
  • the brand essence†   (source)
  • In essence, the outposts protected the local population from the neighborhood bullies, who were well armed, motivated, and ruthless in threatening and killing locals who cooperated with coalition forces.†   (source)
  • To a people for whom community was the essence of life, destruction of community was the destruction of life, she said.†   (source)
  • The fear is lessened as you begin to see the essence of the beauty.†   (source)
  • The essence of Levy's idea was to pay poor families to keep their children in school and take them in for regular medical checkups.†   (source)
  • The country was in essence a mountain massif that rose from the three deserts of Somaliland, Danakil, and Sudan.†   (source)
  • Not to learn it by heart but to discover within the very essence of divinity.†   (source)
  • Her firm brown flesh and bright eyes carried the essence of nectar from some untamed exotic flower, and the fragrance was causing a pleasant disturbance at the pit of his stomach.†   (source)
  • Dreams are the essence of life—not as it is, but as it can be.†   (source)
  • The main course was essence of brandied pig, and you need a lot of it to serve five hundred people.†   (source)
  • The Earl of Essence.†   (source)
  • He says, in essence, that his posture as a tough clown, and his nickname of "blunt"—slang for a marijuana cigar-are the sane responses to his environment.†   (source)
  • She is the essence of the loving wife and mother.†   (source)
  • Since he first arrived in New York in April, the essence of Washington's policy had been to keep close watch and make decisions according to circumstances.†   (source)
  • Then the essence of being Czech vanished into thin air.†   (source)
  • Connectedness is the essence of everything.†   (source)
  • And this was the essence of Edgar's revenge.†   (source)
  • The essence escapes but its aura remains.†   (source)
  • In Haiti, the essence of the doctrine came alive for him.†   (source)
  • And there are few incentives more powerful than the fear of random violence—which, in essence, is why terrorism is so effective.†   (source)
  • I do not believe that sport is the very essence of Southern life—I know God and work and family precede football, except perhaps on Alabama-Auburn game day—but what it really is, is the grandest of escapes from that life.†   (source)
  • At peace, they could act like gods, not ghosts, their descent lines providing them with paper suits and dresses, spirit money, paper houses, paper automobiles, chicken, meat, and rice into eternity— essences delivered up in smoke and flames, steam and incense rising from each rice bowl.†   (source)
  • The talk was about how this thing hunted humans to enslave them, and feed off their ...the translation was kind of vague, and the best I got was essence, or humanity.†   (source)
  • In essence, your bridal gownwas lace...and that's it.†   (source)
  • At the moment the postman rang the bell, Litvinoff's pen had been poised above a blank piece of paper, his eyes watery with revelation, filled with the feeling that he was on the verge of understanding the essence of something.†   (source)
  • Everything is stripped down to its essence.†   (source)
  • Book, Astaroth has no power over it-he can't simply strike it out or change its essence.†   (source)
  • I feel no sympathetic sensation of a soul or a life essence leaving.†   (source)
  • There are various experimental drugs that we've been authorized to use, drugs that allow us to, in essence, give you life memories that you never truly experienced.†   (source)
  • In essence, it meant she was on her own.†   (source)
  • They never understood the true essence of the flagraising.†   (source)
  • It doesn't matter if you manage to drain my essence and become invincible.†   (source)
  • I describe it using more glamorous, fun words, but in essence you have the picture, lad.†   (source)
  • Mortenson held his arms stiffly crossed and listened as Manzoor began softly chanting the essence of all Islamic prayer, the Shahada, or bearing witness.†   (source)
  • won't rain tomorrow' " To explain what started the language "on a downhill course," he offered a sweeping indictment of students, teachers, women, blacks, Hispanics, homosexuals, advertisers, television, and the permissive revolution of the sixties, which dealt education "four great body blows": (1) the student rebellion of 1968, which, in essence, meant that students themselves became arbiters of what subjects were to be taught, and grammar, by jingo (or Ringo), was not one of them; (2) the notion that in a democratic society language must accommodate itself to the whims, idiosyncrasies, dialects, and sheer ignorance of underprivileged minorities, especially if these happened to be black†   (source)
  • The theory goes that if somehow our peculiar essence could be distilled and captured—in a bottle, as he said, or more likely a petri dish—then perhaps that essence could also be transferred from one being to another.†   (source)
  • The windows of the house were open and the overwhelming ammonia essence of cat stood like an invisible wall between me and the front yard.†   (source)
  • Good taste was out of place in the company of death, death itself was the essence of bad taste.†   (source)
  • Absence of Quality is the essence of squareness.†   (source)
  • On my graduation day I delivered an oration in which I showed that humility was the secret, indeed, the very essence of progress.†   (source)
  • So, in essence you issued payments for supplies you never saw.†   (source)
  • There was no doubt that he was the essence of propriety.†   (source)
  • Malan introduced the Group Areas Act—which he described as "the very essence of apartheid"—requiring separate urban areas for each racial group.†   (source)
  • A code does not crack all at once; possible to know meanings of ninety-nine groups in a message and miss essence because one group is merely GLOPS to you.†   (source)
  • It's a matrix light, a recombinant light that disintegrates hard lines and planes, rearranging objects to their essences.†   (source)
  • We both knew that time was of the essence and the element of surprise was gone the minute our helicopter crashed.†   (source)
  • Even brutal and impatient men, when frozen in time, assumed expressions of extraordinary compassion, as if they had reflected the essence of their redemption back into the photograph.†   (source)
  • I wouldn't kill you right away, but I'd strip away the very essence of your being.†   (source)
  • The man did not state it in such terms, but Rearden knew that that was the essence of the case.†   (source)
  • Transitoriness creates time—and "time is the essence.†   (source)
  • Sometimes my husband was so eager that his essence did not go inside.†   (source)
  • The meeting was, in essence, a bedtime story.†   (source)
  • And any two slices of it, as different as Bel Air and Watts, were nevertheless uncannily alike in essence: rich with the same crazy hungers, hopes, and despairs.†   (source)
  • They were in essence going back to their roots.†   (source)
  • Not in the God depicted in the Judeo-Christian Bible, but I do believe that nature's essence is a spirit that—†   (source)
  • Speed is of the essence.†   (source)
  • My dad has passed on to his boys the essence of what he is.†   (source)
  • In essence, all that was needed was a standard laser tube, just oriented to the rear to capture the power of the SAPL and feed it through Troy.†   (source)
  • The essence.†   (source)
  • "The central idea of secession," said Lincoln, "is the essence of anarchy."†   (source)
  • Inside where nothing shows, I am the essence of a man spinning double-headed coins, and betting against himself in private atonement for an unremembered past.†   (source)
  • He had not recognized the old trick of hesitation, the small betrayal of speed that was the essence of the change of pace.†   (source)
  • She bought some calf's-foot jelly, some breast of chicken, some essence of beef and a bottle of Aspirin.†   (source)
  • What I have tried to do here was not to write everything, but in essence everything that was said.†   (source)
  • Faye, the essence of motherness, began to think of Kate as her daughter.†   (source)
  • In essence, he asked for ethical and virtuous social conduct.†   (source)
  • It is the difference between the unknown and the unknowable, between science and fantasy-it is a matter of essence.†   (source)
  • Over the table I hold her hand, which is moist, as if with the pure essence of desire.†   (source)
  • It is true that he had already known for a long time that his self was Atman, in its essence bearing the same eternal characteristics as Brahman.†   (source)
  • "Essence would be better, I think," said Ivan Ivanovich, making the correction on the galleys.†   (source)
  • He knew that the best he could make would be, after it was apart from his hand, a dead thing and not a live thing, never the essence, only a sum of parts; and that it would always meet with a stranger's sight, and never be one with the beauty in any other man's head in the world.†   (source)
  • This may not always be easy, but it nevertheless is the essence of democracy, faith in the wisdom of the people and their views.†   (source)
  • Caution: The essence of murder never changes.†   (source)
  • In essence, you are standing in the middle of an incredibly powerful genetics factory.†   (source)
  • Hammond had never been interested in technical details, and the essence of the argument was technical.†   (source)
  • In essence, an animal can move freely anywhere in the park and escape detection, by following a maintenance road or the jungle river or the beaches or whatever.†   (source)
  • Time is of the essence: his treatment must begin immediately.†   (source)
  • If there was to be any chance of sorting out this mess before sunrise, speed was of the essence.†   (source)
  • Time is of the essence ....for both of you.†   (source)
  • Let's remember what the general said: 'Time is of the essence!†   (source)
  • For the success of the plan, time was of the essence.†   (source)
  • I believe that speed is of the essence in an emergency, don't you?†   (source)
  • Time is of the essence, and we must work efficiently.†   (source)
  • In Deo's photograph of her, I thought he had captured some of the essence of dignity and sorrow.†   (source)
  • We just spent an hour finding the trail, and dawn wasn't that far away, so time was of the essence.†   (source)
  • Time and timing were both of the essence, now more than ever.†   (source)
  • Time is of the essence.†   (source)
  • Time is of the essence.†   (source)
  • Time is of the essence.†   (source)
  • But since time is of the essence, I'd recommend a transcranial Doppler test, which uses ultrasound to measure blood flow through the carotid arteries at the base of the brain.†   (source)
  • Time is of the essence.†   (source)
  • Furthermore, this office would be pleased to work in conjunction with the commissioner of corrections to facilitate what needs to be done, as there are tissue matches and medical testing to be completed prior to the donation, and because time is of the essence during the organ harvest.†   (source)
  • Timing is of the essence and a gambit is necessary to start a chain of events favorable to our strategy.†   (source)
  • Though in agreement that time was of the essence, Washington knew that congressional approval was needed and that there must be no ambiguity over whether his authority extended beyond the immediate theater of war.†   (source)
  • For a moment, Eragon thought of Glaedr—the golden dragon was more than strong enough to lift the whole pile at once—but haste was of the essence, and Glaedr's Eldunari would take too long to retrieve.†   (source)
  • So you see, time may be of the essence.†   (source)
  • I was authorized to pay one million, which is far too much in my opinion, but time is of the essence.†   (source)
  • As during the escape from Brooklyn, Washington's other daring river-crossing by night, a northeaster was again, decisively, a blessing and a curse— a blessing in that it covered the noise of the crossing, a curse in that, with the ice on the river, it was badly slowing progress when time was of the essence.†   (source)
  • Time is of the essence.†   (source)
  • Even as he fell, he was disintegrating, turning back into dust, his essence returning to Tartarus.†   (source)
  • I'd known the essence of what it would say before I'd opened it.†   (source)
  • It ripped away the essence of the goddess like tissue paper in a storm.†   (source)
  • Harry, quickly, in my bag, there's a small bottle labeled 'Essence of Dittany'—†   (source)
  • The celestial bronze blade had to be destroying his essence.†   (source)
  • "Essence of Insanity?" suggested Ron, as Harry swung his cloak over his shoulders.†   (source)
  • Here is the essence of what she said: Laura had finally snapped.†   (source)
  • Well, that's the very essence of it, isn't it?†   (source)
  • Me, the younger sister who was supposed to be the essence of the others.†   (source)
  • They flew back together, good as new, but there was no returning the Murtlap essence to the bowl.†   (source)
  • The essence of the charge is that you took that necklace even after you knew it was stolen.†   (source)
  • Madam Pomfrey says he'll have to stay here a week or so ...keep taking essence of rue ....†   (source)
  • Time and separation dulls some of the memories, but the essence is always there with me every day.†   (source)
  • They met "in the common belief that there exists a Divine Essence in the universe."†   (source)
  • Christianity stretches back through the ages, but in essence it exists only at one time: right now.†   (source)
  • But something about this model describes the essence of our experience of consciousness.†   (source)
  • It needs to be charged before it can be fired, needs to steal Earth's essence in order to be used.†   (source)
  • What you are attempting is, in essence, the opposite of our endeavor, and I cannot recommend it.†   (source)
  • They were wincing as they dabbed essence of dittany onto their many injuries.†   (source)
  • By essence we mean that which something consists of—the nature, or being, of somethig.†   (source)
  • Again the essence of this fable left its mark on me.†   (source)
  • It was not the essence of Devon, and so it was donated, without too serious a wrench, to the war.†   (source)
  • However, your description fails to capture the essence of magic.†   (source)
  • The essence of the plan was that the Ousters had to be provoked into attacking the Hegemony.†   (source)
  • But when the greater part of my essence is caught, it is like a foot in a bear trap, you might say.†   (source)
  • For weeks I've grown weaker as my essence was used to grow him a new form.†   (source)
  • He wished he had not smashed the bowl of Murtlap essence.†   (source)
  • Hide beneath your cloak and become a little dune in your very essence.†   (source)
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