The phrase "a quintessence" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to the most perfect or typical example of a quality or class.
Example: "Her performance was a quintessence of grace and elegance."
Alternatives: "the epitome" or "the essence".
The Holocaust represented a quintessence of evil.
Bournonville choreography catches a quintessence of danciness: kinesthetically intoxicating.
It's a quintessence of fine Viognier, with notes of sandalwood, freesias and white peach.
He was a great star, a quintessence of the enchanting variety offered up by mid-century movies.
Its human scale, its eccentric angles, its hand-operated scoreboard and the lushness of its bluegrass all contribute to an experience that is a quintessence of summer.
It could turn him into a larger-than-life metaphor, a quintessence of a mental or spiritual state that, as Balázs says, lies beyond words, just as music lies beyond words.
The reconstructed EoS parameter is plotted in Figure 2. A quintessence-like behavior is apparent, i.e., ω Λ ≥ − 1.
But Dr. Robert R. Caldwell of the University of Pennsylvania, calling the cosmological constant a "default solution," sought to make a case for quintessence, a newer idea that he advocates with Dr. Paul J. Steinhardt, another astrophysicist at Pennsylvania.
"It's a good deal for the country in the near term because it helps accelerate some things," said Michael Kleeman, a principal at Quintessence, an information technology consulting business, which is based in Washington.
During the scientific workflow from the experiment to the final scientific publication primary data is analysed, interpreted and condensed to a final quintessence.
The notion that therapeutic effects of herbal medicines were due to the presence of a distillable "quintessence" popularized by Paracelsus and fellow alchemists some 450 years ago [ 1], morphed over time into the scientific hypothesis that pharmacological effects of herbal medicines are due to their content of plant-derived chemical compounds (mainly so called secondary metabolites) [ 2, 3].
