Sentence examples for Have an essence from inspiring English sources
"Perhaps it would be a hindrance for an actor to have an essence.
He bases his discussion on the fact that events are described by dispositional characteristics, and that they must have an essence which is distinct from these characteristics.
She has Maryna repeatedly say she does not know what she is feeling when she is not onstage, and in another passage writes: "an actor doesn't need to have an essence".
Here you have an essence of the man: the lightning quick thought, the ability to turn situations round in the wink of an eye, the confrontational eloquence, the slightly epicene persuasiveness.
Kilwardby rejects the view that individuals have an essence in addition to a form of the species.
He seems to admit that next to concrete things there are irrealia, that is, objects that to not really exist but have the status of thought-objects or, as he puts it, entia rationis, that do not have an essence and do not stand in causal relations.
If he can be said to have had an essence, uneasiness was it.
As my friend had recognized, the shed has an essence of its own.
Philosophers have a vocational bent for trying to divine the essences of things that most people never suspected had an essence, and bullshit is a case in point.
In Javanese tradition, power has an essence of its own, known as "wahyu," and is conferred like a mantle on certain chosen people.
